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Hoard of ritual bronze vessels found at Fufeng, Shaanxi. (W. Zhou) |
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Ritual food-serving vessel (gui), bronze, c. 11th C. BCE. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (W. Zhou) |
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Pair of bronze tiger-shaped supports, bronze, c. 10th c. BCE. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (W. Zhou) |
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One of two tiger-shaped supports, bronze, c. 10th c. BCE. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (W. Zhou) |
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Square ritual wine container (fangyi) with a lengthy inscription, bronze, c. 10th c. BCE. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (W. Zhou) |
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Ritual wine container (hu) with wave pattern, bronze, dated 862 or 853 BCE, probably from Fufeng, Shaanxi. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. (W. Zhou) |
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Eastern Zhou (Warring States) |
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Food cooker (ding) with reversible cover and interlace designs, bronze, c. 5th c. BCE, probably from Houma, Shanxi. Ht. 23.5 cm. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. (E. Zhou) |
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Bell, with interlace designs, bronze, c. 5th c. BCE, probably from Houma, Shanxi. British Museum. (E. Zhou) |
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Wine vessel (hu) with pictorial motifs of hunting, bronze, c. 5th c. BCE. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. (E. Zhou) |
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Wine vessel (hu) with pictorial motifs of a ceremony (once inlaid), bronze, c. 5th c. BCE. Palace Museum, Beijing. (E. Zhou) |
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Food cooker (ding) w. interlace designs inlaid in gold and silver, bronze, c. 3rd c. BCE. Minneapolis Institute of Art. (E. Zhou) |
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Mirror, bronze, w. curvilinear and pictorial designs inlaid in gold and silver, c. 3rd c. BCE. Hosokawa collection, Japan. (E. Zhou) |
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Diagram of lost-wax bronze-casting method |
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Rack of bells, bronze, c. 433 BCE, excavated from tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, at Suixian, Hubei. Support figures cast by lost-wax method. Ht. 273 cm. (E. Zhou) |
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Pair of wrestlers, bronze (lost-wax casting method), c. 3rd c. BCE. British Museum. (E. Zhou) |
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Sword hilt, cast gold, c. 4th c. BCE. British Museum. (E. Zhou) |
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Disk w. felines, jade, c. 3rd c. BCE. Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City. (E. Zhou) |
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Linked-ring bracelet, jade, c. 4th c. BCE. British Museum. (E. Zhou) |
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Cult object or guardian in the form of a horned, long-tongued creature eating a snake, lacquer, c. 3rd c. BCE. Ht. 195 cm. Excavated at Xinyang, Henan. (E. Zhou) |
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Bowl, lacquer, c. 3rd c. BCE. Diam. 35.4 cm. Seattle Art Museum (E. Zhou) |
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Woman with phoenix, painting in ink on silk, c. 3rd c. BCE. Excavated at Changsha, Hunan. (E. Zhou) |