Bowl with dog

In contrast to the Han dynasty northern potters' habit of depicting domestic animals in model courtyards, Zhejiang potters since the third century represented animals on a flat base surrounded by a railing or enclosed in a basin shape. Several pens with a single dog, sheep, or pig standing or crouching inside were buried in each tomb, many of which date to the third or the early fourth century. Celadon pens have been discovered in Zhejiang (WW 1984.8: 41, fig. 7), Jiangsu (WWZLCK 1983.8: 4, fig. 21), and Jiangxi (KG 1974.1: 31).