CategoriesCultural and Religious Styles
Han Dynasty
Chinese art of 206 BC–AD 220, known largely from tombs: silk banners, jade suits, lacquer, bronzes, pottery models and stone reliefs.
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The Han dynasty ruled China from 206 BC to AD 220, and its art is known largely through tombs furnished for an afterlife imagined as a continuation of this one. The burial of Lady Dai at Mawangdui, around 168 BC, preserved a T-shaped silk banner painted with heaven, earth and the underworld, along with lacquer bowls and trays in red and black. Prince Liu Sheng and his wife Dou Wan were buried at Mancheng in suits of jade plaques joined with gold wire, beside a gilt-bronze lamp held by a kneeling servant.
Pottery models of houses, granaries, watchtowers and farm animals, many coated in green lead glaze, record daily life in miniature, and stamped bricks from Sichuan show markets and harvests. The stone shrines of the Wu family in Shandong carry reliefs of history and legend. The bronze horse from Leitai, balanced on one hoof over a flying bird, shows Eastern Han casters at their most daring.
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