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AN ASH-GLAZE-SPLASHED BUFF POTTERY MODEL OF A
FARM HOUSE
Eastern Han Dynasty A buff clay model of this form but made in two separate sections is
The two-story building with an L-shape living quarter above the illustrated by Sun in the catalog of the special exhibition organized
square barn, the slanted tiled roof covering the entire top floor, with by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Age of Empires: Art of the Qin
small sections of the roof covering the barn walls framing a small and Han Dynasties, New York, 2017, p. 213, no. 131, described as
courtyard opening to allow sun and rain, the upper story with two Western Han dynasty and “the elevated main building may have been
inward-opening doors each with three exposed timber tenons, slit designated as residential space, whereas the courtyard on the lower
window openings between the doors and on the adjacent wall with level was used to keep livestock.”
thatch coverings, the other side with continued slit windows above
diagonal brick openwork, the barn below with cross-hatch openings Another, called a pigsty, is illustrated by Ireneus Laszlo Legeza, A
on one side and stone ridge support on the other, continued to a Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm MacDonald
wall with a row of reverse-T shape windows high up, and a small Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum,
mushroom-shape opening near the ground. University of Durham, London, 1972, p.3, and plate V, no. 11; and
12 3/8in (31.8cm) high; 10 1/2in (27cm) wide; 10 3/4in (27.6cm) comparable smaller examples can be found in Institute of Humanistic
deep Studies, Kyoto University and is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol.
8, pl. 77; and another called a farm-shed from the M. H. de Young
$4,000 - 6,000 Memorial Museum, San Francisco, is illustrated by Rene D’Argence,
in an article entitled ‘Early Chinese Ceramics, from the Neolithic
東漢 草灰釉陶農舍模型 Times to the Five Dynasties’ in Apollo, vol. 84, no. 54 (August 1966),
p. 91, fig. 16.
Provenance
Yesteryear Antiques, Hong Kong, 28 May 1994
The Harold and Ruth Newman Collection, Connecticut, 1994-2022

出處：
香港 Yesteryear Antiques，1994 年 5 月 28 日
康州 Harold and Ruth Newman 藏，1994-2022

For a smaller model of farm house with similar courtyard from the
Ezekiel and Lillian Schloss Collection, see Bradley Smith & Wan-go
Weng, China: A History in Art, New York, 1979, p. 62, no. 62-63b.
Another smaller example in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of
San Francisco is illustrated by Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Standard
Guide, New York, 1996, p. 79, no. 90, with further discussions on
pp. 114-115 where the author mentions “Models featuring rooms
in an L-shaped arrangements were made in three adjacent cultural
zones: Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi.”

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