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Tales from History and Legends: Lintel and Pediment of a Tomb
Chinese
Western Han dynasty
late 1st century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Earthenware hollow tiles of a tomb lintel and pediment; ink and color on a whitened ground
Dimensions
73.3 x 240.7 cm (28 7/8 x 94 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number25.11
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
ProvenanceAbout 1915, excavated from a tomb in the village of Balitai, near Luoyang, China. 1918, purchased in China by a Mr. Kwen; 1923,sold by Kwen to C.T. Loo and Co., Paris and New York; 1925, sold by C.T. Loo to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853- d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1925, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 24, 1925)