2005: Door leaf. China. Eastern Han period (25-220)

Sandstone | H: 125,6; L: 57,4; P: 6,2

MC2005-2. Gift of the Mont Blanc Foundation, Mrs. Lotus Mahé, winner of the Mont Blanc 2004 Award, the Society of Friends of the Cernuschi Museum and the Antoni Laurent Foundation

The work presents a decoration engraved with a mask Pushou bearing a ringed knocker, a winged dragon and, in the upper part, a crested bird. In the XNUMXst - XNUMXrd centuries, the tombs were closed by similar stone doors, surrounded by two uprights and a lintel usually bearing, as on the work that interests us, flat sculpted decorations: fantastic guardian animals and a mask Pushou.