Sujet
Hollow Tile: Lintel from Tomb-Chamber Doorway, 2nd Century. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Hollow Tile: Lintel from Tomb-Chamber Doorway, 2nd Century. Striding 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.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F85_495
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
74,7Mo (4,0Mo) / 29,2cm x 64,2cm / 3447 x 7578 (300dpi)