Collection of Han Dynasty stone Sculptures - [Picture of Two Dragons wearing round Pieces]

The Western Han Dynasty

Unearthed from Qishan Han Tomb in Peixian County

[Excavated time] in 1977

[Collection size] 76 cm high, 81 cm wide, 17.5 cm thick

[Collection] The original stone was rectangular, for the stone tomb foot file.

[Picture Description] This picture is Yin line engraving, picture engraving cross through double rings, a dragon on both sides of the ring, two dragons a female and a male, respectively about, in order to fly upward through the jade on both sides, the dragon head in the upper mouth opposite, a foot on the ring, a foot touch the frame, there are two birds under the ring, head on the left and standing.

Portraits of "Two dragons wearing round pieces" in Han tombs are often placed on stone carvings of lintel, column, coffin and other tombs. As the dragon symbolizes the celestial medium, it shows from the side the blessing of the living to the dead and the burial etiquette of treating death as life.