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Model of a Wellhead with Roosters
Unrecorded artistHan dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), 100 BCE–100 CE
- Attribution
- China; probably Henan province
- Medium
- Gray earthenware with molded, incised, and stamped decoration
- Physical dimensions
- 38 × 45.5 × 25.2 cm (14 15/16 × 17 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Samuel M. Nickerson Fund
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These jaunty roosters once sat atop a model well in Han-dynasty China. They are perched on the roof, which covered a pulley for raising and lowering buckets. Both the wellhead and the pigsty in the adjacent case resemble objects excavated from a tomb in Huixian, a city in northern China, and they may have come from the same workshop.
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