Bulletin, Issues 55-57The Museum, 1983 - China |
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Page 124
... animals were disputing the horse itself . The other pieces associated with headdresses combine beasts of prey with horns or antlers and beasts of prey in combat . The images by which the horses were transformed , or for which they ...
... animals were disputing the horse itself . The other pieces associated with headdresses combine beasts of prey with horns or antlers and beasts of prey in combat . The images by which the horses were transformed , or for which they ...
Page 133
... animals ' outstretched legs convey the vital rhythm of the chase while the archers ' drawn bows anticipate the moment when the arrow is released for the decisive shot . Beneath men and animals , a running line with vertical striations ...
... animals ' outstretched legs convey the vital rhythm of the chase while the archers ' drawn bows anticipate the moment when the arrow is released for the decisive shot . Beneath men and animals , a running line with vertical striations ...
Page 139
... animals , animals in combat , or predators savaging horned or antlered animals translated axis and images into a mythic landscape . " The reiteration of the basic image complex - stag or stag variant , predator , and antler transformed ...
... animals , animals in combat , or predators savaging horned or antlered animals translated axis and images into a mythic landscape . " The reiteration of the basic image complex - stag or stag variant , predator , and antler transformed ...
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animals antlers appear barrow beak-heads Bei Dao bird black-painted Bodhisattva body bronze Buddha Buddhist burial carved central century B.C. Ch'ien Liu Chavannes China Chinese Confucian crown cultural Dai Zhen dated decorative dragons Eastern Antiquities Emperor feline figure frontal Fu Xi fur-trimmings gold plaques griffon heads Hangchou headdress heavily stylized Hopei horse Hsiung-nu Hua-yen hybrid beast Ibid images imperial Inner Mongolia inscription Issyk Khitan Kuan-yin kurgan landscape Liao dynasty Liaoning literati Manchu Mongolia monk motif mountains mythic Neo-Confucian nomadic officials omens Pagoda Parinirvana pattern Pazaryk Photograph courtesy Plate poetry poets political portents predator Rect reign represented ribbons Round Ø Rudenko sculpture Scythian art Scytho-Siberian seal Sekino Shih Siberian Treasure silk Sitting lion soutache stone Sung symbolic Ta-t'ung Temple tiger Ting-hsien tomb tradition tree ts'ê Type Virginia Museum Wang Wu Shrines Wu Yüeh Wu-t'ai-shan Yin and Yang Zhu Xi