Hollow Tile: Lintel from Tomb-Chamber Doorway, 2nd Century. China, Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 220). Earthenware, die-stamped relief; overall: 137.2 cm (54 in.). Striding tigers (top), racing horsemen (right column), and reverent officials (left column) are stamped into the surface of this underground portal to a tomb. The doorway preserves in stone the post-and-lintel structure, a basic element of Chinese wooden architecture.