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... carved wooden stag head with elaborated antlers ; 53 ) carved griffon heads ; 54 ) an elegantly carved eagle - griffon head with a stag head in its mouth and griffons attacking geese on its sides ; and another wooden griffon head with a ...
... carved wooden stag head with elaborated antlers ; 53 ) carved griffon heads ; 54 ) an elegantly carved eagle - griffon head with a stag head in its mouth and griffons attacking geese on its sides ; and another wooden griffon head with a ...
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... carved during King Ch'ien Shu's reign . A Wu Yüeh date for the two Kuan - yin at the entrance of the grotto is stylistically supported by the cliff sculpture carved at Chiang - t'ai - shan [ 31 ] ( Plate 14 ) . Its location is at the ...
... carved during King Ch'ien Shu's reign . A Wu Yüeh date for the two Kuan - yin at the entrance of the grotto is stylistically supported by the cliff sculpture carved at Chiang - t'ai - shan [ 31 ] ( Plate 14 ) . Its location is at the ...
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... carved on the image here investigated . Ch'ien Liu's dealings with aquatic deities were not limited to that occurrence alone . The king used to perform also a Taoist ritual called t'ou lung chien [ 49 ] , or Flinging of the Dragon ...
... carved on the image here investigated . Ch'ien Liu's dealings with aquatic deities were not limited to that occurrence alone . The king used to perform also a Taoist ritual called t'ou lung chien [ 49 ] , or Flinging of the Dragon ...
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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