PROPERTY FROM THE HAROLD AND RUTH NEWMAN COLLECTION AN ASH-GLAZE-SPLASHED BUFF POTTERY MODEL OF A FARM HOUSEEastern Han dynasty The two-story building with an L-shape living quarter above the square barn, the slanted tiled roof covering the entire top floor, with small sections of the roof covering the barn walls framing a small courtyard opening to allow sun and rain, the upper story with two inward-opening doors each with three exposed timber tenons, slit window openings between the doors and on the adjacent wall with thatch coverings, the other side with continued slit windows above diagonal brick openwork, the barn below with cross-hatch openings on one side and stone ridge support on the other, continued to a wall with a row of reverse-T shape windows high up, and a small mushroom-shape opening near the ground. 12 3/8in (31.8cm) high; 10 1/2in (27cm) wide; 10 3/4in (27.6cm) deep 東漢 草灰釉陶農舍模型 Provenance: Yesteryear Antiques, Hong Kong, 28 May 1994 The Harold and Ruth Newman Collection, Connecticut, 1994-2022 出處： 香港 Yesteryear Antiques，1994 年 5 月 28 日 康州 Harold and Ruth Newman 藏，1994-2022 For a smaller model of farm house with similar courtyard from the Ezekiel and Lillian Schloss Collection, see Bradley Smith & Wan-go Weng, China: A History in Art , New York, 1979, p. 62, no. 62-63b. Another smaller example in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is illustrated by Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Standard Guide , New York, 1996, p. 79, no. 90, with further discussions on pp. 114-115 where the author mentions "Models featuring rooms in an L-shaped arrangements were made in three adjacent cultural zones: Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi." A buff clay model of this form but made in two separate sections is illustrated by Sun in the catalog of the special exhibition organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Age of Empires: Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties , New York, 2017, p. 213, no. 131, described as Western Han dynasty and "the elevated main building may have been designated as residential space, whereas the courtyard on the lower level was used to keep livestock." Another, called a pigsty, is illustrated by Ireneus Laszlo Legeza, A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum, University of Durham , London, 1972, p.3, and plate V, no. 11; andparable smaller examples can be found in Institute of Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University and is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu , vol. 8, pl. 77; and another called a farm-shed from the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, is illustrated by Rene D'Argence, in an article entitled 'Early Chinese Ceramics, from the Neolithic Times to the Five Dynasties' in Apollo , vol. 84, no. 54 (August 1966), p. 91, fig. 16.