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Page 113
... century B.C. , " on which appears a recumbent stag with alert head and palmated antlers , the ends of which take the form of large - beaked bird heads with pronounced ceres ( Pl . 1 ) . The easy combination , here , of a vividly ...
... century B.C. , " on which appears a recumbent stag with alert head and palmated antlers , the ends of which take the form of large - beaked bird heads with pronounced ceres ( Pl . 1 ) . The easy combination , here , of a vividly ...
Page 115
... century , bird - heads appear superimposed on stag bodies . On a hammered gold plaque from Dubovaya , in the Dniepre region , dated to the fifth century B.C. , a standing stag displays a great beak - head on its shoulder . " A long ...
... century , bird - heads appear superimposed on stag bodies . On a hammered gold plaque from Dubovaya , in the Dniepre region , dated to the fifth century B.C. , a standing stag displays a great beak - head on its shoulder . " A long ...
Page 132
... century B.C. ( Bunker , pl . 139 ) . This piece lacks the powerful representation of strange zoomorphs for which the Garchinovo matrix is remarkable . The large bird - head on the shoulder of the Garchinovo falling stag relates it to ...
... century B.C. ( Bunker , pl . 139 ) . This piece lacks the powerful representation of strange zoomorphs for which the Garchinovo matrix is remarkable . The large bird - head on the shoulder of the Garchinovo falling stag relates it to ...
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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