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Description: Pottery buildings showing column-and-tie-beam construction

TitlePottery buildings showing column-and-tie-beam construction

Creator nameUnknown

Creator name (description)illustration by Fu Xinian

Creator nationality/cultureChinese

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation date202 BC–220 AD

Object typeContainer

MaterialsUnknown

LocationExcavated in Han tombs in Guangdong, China

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsArchitecture--China--HistoryPottery, Chinese--Qin-Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D.

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4. The Development of Timber-Frame Architecture during the Two Jins and the Northern and Southern Dynasties

Fu Xinian, Nancy S. Steinhardt (Editor), Alexandra Harrer (Translator)

Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays

The three hundred years of disunion under the Two Jins and the Northern and Southern Dynasties (281–581) are a turning point between the combined earth and wood structural frameworks of Han and dramatic buildings with curved lines that appear in the Tang dynasty. The Han and Tang styles and construction methods are in sharp contrast to each other, so the development from one system to the...

Author

Fu Xinian, Nancy S. Steinhardt (Editor), Alexandra Harrer (Translator)

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.97-139

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.003584

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23701&redirecttoanchor=102122

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--China--HistoryChina--History--Han dynasty, 206 B.C.-220 A.D.China--History--Jin dynasty, 265-420China--History--Northern and Southern dynasties, 386-589Buddhist cave temples--China

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