English: Close-up view of a Chinese mid-Eastern-Han Dynasty (25–220 CE) ceramic architectural model of a fortified multistory manor house with a covered bridge extended to a smaller watchtower (seen in the alternate picture below). This model was excavated by archaeologists in 1993 from an Eastern-Han tomb at Jiazuo, Henan Province, China. The main building is 192 cm tall, and has a courtyard with gate-towers, an exterior stairway leading from the courtyard to the front balcony of the first level, and four sets of rooftops. This information is taken from:

• Guo, Qinghua. (2005). Chinese Architecture and Planning: Ideas, Methods, and Techniques. Stuttgart and London: Edition Axel Menges. ISBN 3932565541.

This artifact is now located in the Henan Provincial Museum, Zhengzhou, China; from collection posted at www.GaryLeeTodd.com by Dr. Gary L. Todd, Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, China.