Wine Storage Vessel (Hu) Decorated with Hunting Scene
1st century BCE
Physical Qualities
Earthenware with unfired pigments, 13 3/4 H x 10 3/4 Diam. in. (34.9 x 27.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Howard C. Hollis
Object Number
1990.57
On this vessel, an archer on horseback takes aim at a tiger. Hunting was a popular sport during the Western Han period, and a large im- perial hunting park was maintained in the vicinity of Changan, the Western Han capital. Texts from the time describe a wall more than eight miles in circumference surrounding the park.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1990; J. J. Lally & Co., New York (acquired after 1985)
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Chinese Mortuary Ceramics from the Collection," December 2008-December 2009.
