Bulletin, Issues 55-57The Museum, 1983 - China |
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... front and profile view . Gilt bronze . Liao dynasty : end 11th c . The Art Institute of Chicago , Clarence Buckingam Collection . ( Photograph courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago . ) Plate 43 A. Standing Bodhisattva Kuan - yin , front ...
... front and profile view . Gilt bronze . Liao dynasty : end 11th c . The Art Institute of Chicago , Clarence Buckingam Collection . ( Photograph courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago . ) Plate 43 A. Standing Bodhisattva Kuan - yin , front ...
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... front . At first encounter , the observer is aware foremost of the verticality of the sculpture and of a disregard for human anatomy . The body is asexually modeled with no indication of swelling breasts or curving hips . Torso and hips ...
... front . At first encounter , the observer is aware foremost of the verticality of the sculpture and of a disregard for human anatomy . The body is asexually modeled with no indication of swelling breasts or curving hips . Torso and hips ...
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... front leg ( s ) . The right front leg is missing , as well as a 3 mm long piece in the middle of the front leg . L : ? Nr 234 B : Rect . S : 26x21 mm H : 21 mm B : Sitting lion with long , slender and heavily bent front legs . The open ...
... front leg ( s ) . The right front leg is missing , as well as a 3 mm long piece in the middle of the front leg . L : ? Nr 234 B : Rect . S : 26x21 mm H : 21 mm B : Sitting lion with long , slender and heavily bent front legs . The open ...
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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