A Chinese Green Glazed Hill Jar with Cover, Western Han Dynasty, ca. 206 BCE – 9 CE Ceramics or even sun-dried or baked

or even sun-dried or baked clay

jewelry served both as a symbol of identity and social status as well as an ornament

Condition: Rejoined and complete

particularly during the Neo-Assyrian period

A Chinese Green Glazed Hill Jar with Cover, Western Han Dynasty, ca. 206 BCE – 9 CE Ceramics or even sun-dried or bakedThis fine green glazed ceramic hill jar is a Han dynasty funerary vessel, created to symbolically safeguard the deceased's journey into the afterlife. These jars were primarily used to hold fragrant substances for burning rather than for storing everyday items, and are often found in tombs. Serving as ceramic incense burners, they symbolized a journey to the Daoist paradise and were typically filled with aromatic materials such as foreign incense and