House with a Courtyard

Maker: Unknown

2nd–3rd century c.e.

Asian Art

On view, 2nd floor, Asian Art

This single-story house, with an attached courtyard for animals, was produced in southern China for a tomb and is a rare example of a burial good from that region. Made in Hunan Province, this type of object depicts architecture still found in southern China and Vietnam today.

Medium

Stoneware with incised and carved decoration

Dimensions

9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
other: 11 3/4 in. (29.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of John Hadley Cox, B.A. 1935

Accession Number

1940.327

Geography

Associated place: China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 C.E.)

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
John Hadley Cox (1913–2005), Washington, D.C.; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1940
Bibliography
  • Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 290, ill.
  • Ezekiel Schloss, Art of the Han, exh. cat. (New York: China Institute Gallery, 1979), 34, no. 10
  • Jan Fontein and Tung Wu, Unearthing China's Past, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1973), 75, no. 23
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 71, no. 118, ill.
  • John Hadley Cox, An Exhibition of Chinese Antiquities from Ch'ang-Sha lent by John Hadley Cox, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Associates in Fine Arts, Yale University, 1939), fig. 7
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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