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Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Vermilion Bird

Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Phoenix

100–1 BCE
(206 BCE–8 CE)
earthenware with impressed relief decoration
Overall: 11.5 x 18.4 x 1.6 cm (4 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 5/8 in.)
Weight: 0.42
Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1925.136
Location: not on view
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Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife.

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Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife. Four earthenware panels were made in molds and then joined together to make a miniature model of a stove, which was placed in a burial chamber. The stove's four sides show the animals of the cardinal directions. The vermilion phoenix-bird faces south.
Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Vermilion Bird

Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Vermilion Bird

100–1 BCE

China, from a tomb in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE)

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