Tile

Description

Tile of earthenware with slip and pigment, an anthropomorphized rabbit, from a set of twelve portraying the twelve calendrical animals: China, Six Dynasties, 220 - 589 AD

Museum reference

A.1956.1226

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Tile

Production information

China, East Asia

Date

220 - 589

Style / Culture

Period of Disunion (San Guo, Wei, Jin, Nan-Bei Chao), Chinese

Materials

Earthenware

Physical description

Dark grey earthenware, white slip, traces of unfired red, blue, yellow and black pigments

Associations

Depicted: Mao (cat)

References

Hobson, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Vol. I, p. 211