id: 95145 accession number: 1915.66 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.66 updated: 2023-03-03 07:01:06.369000 Hollow Tile: Column from Tomb-Chamber Doorway, 2nd Century. China, Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 220). Earthenware, die-stamped relief; overall: 112.4 x 19 cm (44 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King 1915.66 title: Hollow Tile: Column from Tomb-Chamber Doorway title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2nd Century creation date earliest: 100 creation date latest: 200 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King copyright: --- culture: China, Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 220) technique: earthenware, die-stamped relief department: Chinese Art collection: China - Han Dynasty type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 112.4 x 19 cm (44 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.66/1915.66_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.66/1915.66_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.66/1915.66_full.tif