Ceramic Model of a Pigsty Chinese farmers regularly raised pigs, keeping them in walled-off pens and feeding them scraps. This Han Dynasty model of such a pigsty was placed in a tomb to represent the material goods one hoped the deceased would enjoy in the afterlife. (Funerary model of a pigsty [earthenware], Western Han Dynasty [206 B.C.–A.D. 24]/Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, U.S.A./Gift of Alan and Dena Naylor in memory of Thomas E. Leary/The Bridgeman Art Library)