Tiger Shaped Stove

Bronze ware from the Spring and Autumn Period
Total height 162 cm, stove body height 22 cm, length 46 cm, width 38 cm. Excavated from Zhao Qing's tomb in Jinsheng Village, Taiyuan City in 1988. Daily necessities. A set of 7 pieces, consisting of a stove body, a cauldron, a steamer, and four chimneys. The stove body is in the shape of a tiger's head, with eyes wide open, and chains for carrying on both sides. The stove door is like a wide-open tiger's mouth, with a round stove eye on the top, a cauldron built into the stove eye, a steamer on the cauldron, and a round chimney behind the stove eye, which is the tiger's tail. There are small protruding teeth in the stove body for enamelling the stove and hanging mud. Applying mud to the furnace can not only maintain temperature, but also save firewood and ensure the heat concentration of the furnace. The cauldron is decorated with a cow head and double-bodied dragon pattern belt. The steamer is decorated with a Kuilong pattern belt. The chimney is a mother-and-child mouth that can be connected up and down. This type of stove is the first discovered in China.