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206 BCE–220 CEIn-depth study

Eastern Han earthenware house model with traces of pigment. A surviving funerary object, not a reconstruction of a particular occupied home.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Rogers Fund, 1951 · 51.127.2a–f · Public domain / CC0 · Resized to WebP · Licence terms

Asia / Culture

Han China: cities, households and a connected empire

Han history includes administration, writing and long-distance exchange as well as conquest. A pottery house model opens a different view: the buildings and material comforts imagined for life after death.

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