- Title
- Hunting scenes on pottery pot of Eastern Han Dynasty (3) ; Large Jar ; Cut designs on shoulder of large pot ; Dong Han tao weng shou lie dong wu tu an (3)
- early 20th. century?
- Rubbing from cut designs on shoulder of large pot (weng, an earthen jar) featuring 2 layers of designs: on the top layer: a hound-dog image on the left sniffing and creeping toward west and another hound-dog sitting facing east on the right; 2nd. layer depicting a monkey image crawling toward west and a hunter armed with a lance of the type "ge" (dagger-axe) moves toward east.
- 23 x 34.5 cm
- No linguistic content
- rubbings
- Images
- pots
pottery
engravings
animals
hunting
bands (ensembles)
dogs
human figures
hunters
weapons
daggers (weapons)
monkeys - Chinese
- Eastern Han
- paper
ink
intaglio - Citation/references: Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973, p. 76. (Large Jar).
- Fine Arts Library, Special Collections, Harvard University
- W278284_URN-3:FHCL:537913
- Title
- Hunting scenes on pottery pot of Eastern Han Dynasty (3) ; Large Jar ; Cut designs on shoulder of large pot ; Dong Han tao weng shou lie dong wu tu an (3)
- Date
- early 20th. century?
- Description
- Rubbing from cut designs on shoulder of large pot (weng, an earthen jar) featuring 2 layers of designs: on the top layer: a hound-dog image on the left sniffing and creeping toward west and another hound-dog sitting facing east on the right; 2nd. layer depicting a monkey image crawling toward west and a hunter armed with a lance of the type "ge" (dagger-axe) moves toward east.
- Extent
- 23 x 34.5 cm
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Genre
- rubbings
- Digital Format
- Images
- Subjects
- pots
pottery
engravings
animals
hunting
bands (ensembles)
dogs
human figures
hunters
weapons
daggers (weapons)
monkeys - Culture
- Chinese
- Style / Period
- Eastern Han
- Materials / Techniques
- paper
ink
intaglio - Notes
- Citation/references: Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973, p. 76. (Large Jar).
- Repository
- Fine Arts Library, Special Collections, Harvard University
- Record ID
- W278284_URN-3:FHCL:537913
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