Hollow Tile: Lintel from Tomb-Chamber Doorway, 2nd Century, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese ArtStri
Hollow Tile: Lintel from Tomb-Chamber Doorway, 2nd Century, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese ArtStriding tigers (top), racing horsemen (right column), and reverent officials (left column) are stamped into the surface of this underground portal to a tomb. The doorway preserves in stone the post-and-lintel structure, a basic element of Chinese wooden architecture. By the first century AD, a revolution in Chinese tomb construction and furnishing had taken place. Tombs lined with decorated bricks and tiles replace the earlier tombs constructed with only rammed earth-walls. Ceramic surrogates or models of stoves, houses, servants, and pets filled these more durable chambers, symbolically extending the creature comforts of this world into the world after death.Size: Overall: 137.2 cm (54 in.)Medium: earthenware, die-stamped reliefhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1915.69 -- source link
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