Maison miniature

Entre 50 et 400
Terre cuite
Maquette
Sépulture 2, site de Nghi Vệ, province de Bắc Ninh
Don fouilles : Mission Janse Indochine (1934-1935)

M.C. 11240

This house with blind walls is made of a rough orangey pink clay fired at low temperature. On its façade is a door frame in bas relief. Between the two door posts, in the upper part, two horizontal projections mark a separation corresponding, perhaps, to a high window. The gable ends and the base extend beyond the façade, creating a sort of projection in front of the building. This feature may have enabled the house to be set on a double wall within a larger fortified dwelling place. This construction should not therefore be seen as a single home but as one of several pavilions on stilts within a square-shaped farmstead.
The two-sided roof covering the house features a ridge formed by a long roll of clay that is damaged at both ends. On either side of the roof, three perpendicular ridges lie on the thatch suggested by combed grooves.