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Description:
Slightly U-shaped, solid, rectangular ornamental tomb brick of grey fire clay with an impressed decoration in low relief. On the front, concave face of the brick is a banner-bearing equestrian figure with a two-character horizontal inscription above and an eight-character vertical inscription to the left. The bottom of the vertical inscription is chipped off at the corner; it is repeated in a frame on the left side with several characters of the inscription written in reversed form. On the right side of the brick is a bearded and big-nosed man, presumably a Central Asian foreigner, wearing a Chinese robe and standing with arms folded. The back and the two ends of the brick are plain.
Source: 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham. London: Oxford University Press, p. 3Legeza, I.L.
Relational references:
Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham. London: Oxford University Press| Object details | |
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| Type of object: | Brick |
| Type category: | Architecture |
| Material: | Pottery |
| Width: | 91 mm |
| Height: | 157 mm |
| Depth: | 42 mm |
| Origin | |
| Style/Period: | Chinese |
| Date range: | 2nd century CE |
| Discovery site: | Chinese |
| Environment: | |
| Creator | |
| Technique: | |
| Personal name: | - |
| Role: | - |
| Culture: | Chinese |
| Record data | |
| Artworld id: | 00183 |
| Current accession number: | 1969.39 |
| Former accession number: | MacDonald cat. |
| Credit line: | - |
| Recorded by: | LW |
| Record date: | Thu, 12th Sep 2002 |
| Copyright: | Copyright© by the Oriental Museum, University of Durham, Durham, 2002. All Rights reserved |