art of china. standing figure (guanghan sanxingdui, china), shang dynasty, c. 1200 bce, bronze
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Art of China
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Standing figure (Guanghan Sanxingdui, China), Shang
dynasty, c. 1200 BCE, bronze
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Gong of animal forms (Anyang,
China), 12th or 11th century BCE,
bronze
Shang dynasty/ gong (guang)/ zoomorphic/
bilateral symmetry/ casting vs. firing/ varied animal motifs/
Chinese attitude toward nature
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Bi (disk) (late Zhou
dynasty), 3rd to 4th century,
nephrite
Zhou dynasty/ bi disk/ use of
jade to suggest rank and status/
Chinese dragons
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Above: k’uei dragonRight: lung dragon
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Left: Rectangular “hu” vessel (Late Western Zhou period)
Below: Wine container of the “you” type, 10th century BCE
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Soldiers of the Imperial Bodyguard, tomb of the Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi (Shaanxi, China)
c. 210 BCE, painted terracotta
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6,000 lifesize terracotta soldiers used to convey power and authority/ soldiers facing eastward
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Legalism/ model of the imperial palace
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weapons of war
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The Great Wall
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Funeral banner from the Tomb of Dai
(Western Han dynasty), c. 168 BCE, painted silk
Han dynasty/ realms of heaven and earth
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reappearance of a “bi”
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the raven and the toad/ the Silk Road
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Fragment of a stamped brick depicting the Queen of the
West seated on a tiger throne
and surrounded by the fox, the hare with the
herb of immortality, the
toad of the Moon, and the
raven
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Incense burner, from the tomb of Prince Liu Sheng (Han dynasty),
113 BCE, bronze with gold inlay
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Mythological scenes from the Wu family shrine (late Han dynasty), 147-168 CE, rubbing of a
stone relief
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Confucian themes/ Yi, the
legendary archer, shoots at one of the sun-crows/ a Fusang tree/ contours of
figures suggesting
linear rhythm
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Attributed to Gu Kaizhi. Lady Feng and the Bear, detail of Admonitions of the Instructress… (Period
of Disunity), late fourth century CE
Gu Zaizhi/ Period of Disunity/ the Chinese handsroll/ absence of a setting/ Xie He’s Six Laws