Panel from Model Cooking Stove: Fairy Feeding Lingzhi Fungus to a Dra

A rectangular earthenware panel carries a shallow impressed relief of a long, sinuous dragon curling leftward. A small horned figure at right extends a sprig toward the dragon's snout, with stylized swirling motifs around the hands and feet.

Look closer: Small triangular motifs and swirls near the figure's hands and feet, part of the impressed decoration.

Artist

Unknown

Date

100–1 BCE

Medium

earthenware with impressed relief decoration

Source

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Size

3400 × 2292 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund