Highlights
Convex Roof-end Tile with Bracken Design
- Nationality/Period
Korea
- Materials
Clay - Hard
- Category
Housing - Architecture sub-material - Roof Material - End-tile of Convex Roofing Tile
- Dimensions
D. 15.7cm
- Accession Number
Jeongnae 14
This convex roof-end tile is of a type that was widely used in Han China and the Lelang Commandery. The use of a bracken design on roof-end tiles was based on the belief in the importance to gi (vital energy) of heaven and earth and on an intense longing for the world of the Taoist immortals.