Realistic models including watchtowers, barnyards, and grain mills are a significant category of ‘mingqi’ funerary ware and reveal much about the architecture and the military and agricultural life of the time. This model of a goat pen with an elevated fodder storage shed depicts an everyday scene of nearly 2,000 years ago. The pen is typical of low-fired Han funerary ceramics. Its green lead-silicate glaze that has taken on a silvery iridescence from burial in the ground. Lead glazing came into use in China around the second half of the first century BCE, and is thought to have been intended to imitate the patina of old bronze. The toxicity of lead meant such glazes were reserved for tomb furnishings rather than household wares.