Tomb Door Lintel - 40-7-1A | Collections

Object Number:	40-7-1A
Current Location:	Collections storage
Culture:	Chinese
Provenience:	China
Date Made:	6th Century
Early Date:	500
Late Date:	599
Section:	Asian
Materials:	Limestone
Technique:	Engraved
Credit Line:	Exchange with Yamanaka & Co., 1940

Description

Grey limestone door lintel ornamented with surface engraving and the background cut away. The lintel features two animated phoenix-like birds, with swirling plumage, flanking a stylized sacred jewel surrounded with flames and lotus pods and leaves. The two doors that accompanied this piece were de-accessioned to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ( 65-20/1 & 65-20/2) through a gift exhange. On each door there is a standing guardian in high relief wearing simple robes and a leather cuirass and cap with a flat piece of jade thrust through it. Below each guardian is a seated dog executed in simple incised lines and facing the dog on the other door.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

	Chinese Halls (1941 - 1966)	View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

	[Article] Jayne, Horace H. F. 1941. The Chinese Collections of The University Museum: A Handbook of the Principal Objects. The University Museum Bulletin. 9 (2-3) : Page/Fig./Plate: Pg. 21, Fig. 17	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference
	[Article] Jayne, Horace H. F. 1940. The Doors of the Waiting Dogs ( 6th Century Tomb Doors). The University Museum Bulletin. 8 (4) : Page/Fig./Plate: 6-9, pl.2.	View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference