Dog / Artist Unknown, China
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1993/1.96
- Title
- Dog
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with traces of polychrome pigments
- Object Creation Date
- 1st century - 2nd century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Shaanxi (province)
- or Henan (province)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Shaanxi (province)
- Creation Place 4
- or Henan (province)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
- Dimensions
- 45 cm x 48 cm x 28.7 cm (17 11/16 in. x 18 7/8 in. x 11 5/16 in.)
- Century
- 1st-2nd century
- Primary Object Classification
- Sculpture
- Primary Object Type
- model
- Secondary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Secondary Object Type
- funerary sculpture
- Physical Description
- pottery model of a standing dog, as part of the grave furnishing in a Han tomb
- Subject Matter
- Chinese ideas of the afterlife required that a tomb be fully equipped with the paraphernalia to keep the departed soul comfortable throughout the coming ages. In earlier centuries live humans and animals were co-buried with kings, but by the Han dynasty, the dead were content with clay models, and almost any family of reasonable means could provide for their ancestors. This congenial creature is one of hundreds excavated from Han period tombs, evidence that the dog was well established as man’s best friend by a thousand years ago.
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- art genres
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- mammals
- object genres
- object genres by location, context or origin
- people and culture
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1279 x 955
- File Size
- 74 KB
- Record
- 1993/1.96
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"Dog; Artist Unknown, China." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1993-sl-1.96/1993_1.96.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.