Model of a Wellhead with Roosters
Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), 100 BCE–100 CE
China; probably Henan province
China
These jaunty roosters once sat atop a model well in Han-dynasty China. They are perched on the roof, which covered a pulley for raising and lowering buckets. Both the wellhead and the pigsty in the adjacent case resemble objects excavated from a tomb in Huixian, a city in northern China, and they may have come from the same workshop.
Gray earthenware with molded, incised, and stamped decoration