Funerary Granary Jar, China, Han Dynasty, ca. 206 to 220 CE. 

An impressive piece of architectural pottery in the form of a storage granary from the Han Dynasty. Raised upon three feet with the top of the jar representing a tiled roof with 6 patterned ridges and roundels along with further decoration of grooves to the body and diamond patterned bands. The glazed surface shifts from red pottery to an amber glaze with an iridescence. Funerary ceramics such as this were inspired by traditional buildings used as storehouses – this granary likely held grains such as wheat and barley for the deceased to use in the afterlife.