# Farm Shed with Grain Mill

- By: China
- Date: Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE)
- Medium: Brick-red earthenware with green lead glaze
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: 17.8 × 19.4 × 27.3 cm (7 × 7 5/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
- Culture: China
- Credit line: Gift of Rose Movius Palmer
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/51834)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/ae39f225-3e4e-3df8-308c-580cd2cbd99d/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This humble-looking burial model illustrates two notable inventions in engineering and architecture that were in used widely during the Han dynasty. The rotary mill, worked by a pedal-operated hammer, was used to prepare grain for flour. The shed that encloses it has a deeply overhanging tile roof supported by a wood column with projecting bracket arms. This type of bracketing, which transferred the weight of the roof to the column, became an increasingly important feature of later Chinese buildings.

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