Originally these small replicas of furniture were entombed with the deceased so that he or she would "feel at home" in the afterworld, a custom which concretely and in miniature reveals much about how people thought of furniture in those days.
這批三四寸見方由明墓出土，原本要逝者安心「在家」的陶塑，也具體而微地展現了當時的傢具觀。