Funerary tile
date: label: Date
content: 100 BCE-100 CE
label: Period
content: Han dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: Hollow tomb tile, perhaps a socle. Both sides the same. Broken areas along edges.
label: Description
content: Clay: slate-gray earthenware; fine texture.
label: Description
content: Glaze: none
label: Description
content: Decoration: impressed with dies or stamps in low flat relief; two profile kneeling armed guardian figures flanking stylized tree over narrow horizontal panels - (1) two birds facing central seated figure (2) horse and carriage followed by horseman.
label: Provenance
content: To ?
label: Provenance
content: Jen Ku-chei, Zhengzhou, Henan, China [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1923
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased by Carl Whiting Bishop from Jen Ku-chei, Zhengzhou, Henan, China [2]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Transferred from the Bishop Collection; formerly T-2.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Jen Ku-chei
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)
label: Topic
content: funerary
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
label: Topic
content: Carl Whiting Bishop collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1923.19
objectType: label: Type
content: Architectural Element
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Unglazed earthenware
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 31.4 × 29.3 × 16.7 cm (12 3/8 × 11 9/16 × 6 9/16 in)