Tomb Brick
Unidentified Han Dynasty maker, Chinese, 206 BCE - 220 CE
Han Dynasty, 202 BCE-220 CE
Incised earthenware
Overall: 20 7/8 × 62 1/4 × 6 in. (53 × 158.1 × 15.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind and D. Herbert Beskind, Class of 1936
C.957.156
Geography
Place Made: Luoyang Province, China, East Asia, Asia
Object Name
Funerary Equipment
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed. Chinese characters painted on front center: tung (east), pei (north), shang (upper, above)
Exhibition History
Asian Art from the College Collection, Barrows Print Room and Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 5-31, 1973/4?
Provenance
Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind (1917-2014) and David Herbert Beskind (1915-2015), Class of 1936, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1957.
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