Dog
Unidentified Han Dynasty maker, Chinese, 206 BCE - 220 CE
Han Dynasty, 202 BCE-220 CE
Terracotta with pigment
Overall: 12 × 6 5/16 × 4 3/4 in. (30.5 × 16 × 12 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Patrick C. Hill
S.981.136
Geography
Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Exhibition History
Attitude of Coexistence: Non-humans in East Asian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 5-June 29, 2025.
Death and Dying: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 55, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11-March 26, 1995.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-January 21, 2008.
The Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 2008-September 28, 2014.
Provenance
Collected by Genevieve Carpenter Hill (1902-1984), Charlotte, Vermont between 1921-1981; given to present collection, 1981.
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