Pottery green glaze pigsty

[Pottery green glazed pigsty]

Pottery green glazed pigsty, Han, 16.5 cm long, 15.5 cm wide, and 20 cm high
Grey ceramic body with green glaze applied outside. The rectangular pigsty has a wall outside and a pig inside. There is a hut on the top of one side of the pigsty. There are steps in front, and the lower part is hollowed out to connect with the pigsty. In the clay sculptures of the Han Dynasty, it is often seen that the pigsty and the toilet are built together. The hut on the green-glazed pigsty is the toilet. This scene can still be seen in some rural areas today. The purpose of this is to collect fertilizer for irrigation more conveniently. It can be seen that some simple living habits of human beings have been maintained for thousands of years
The Han Dynasty was the first prosperous period of China’s feudal society, and the Han Dynasty gradually prospered after the “rule of literature and scenery” under the environment of the near collapse of the Qin Dynasty economy. The art of pottery figurines in the Han Dynasty came into being on such an economic basis. At that time, the social ethos was that thick burial was the virtue and thin end was the despicable. Some people even went to waste their money for the purpose of “rich capital and many treasures, and the tools were used like strangers”. That’s why we now see this pottery ware modeled on a real pig sty