Bulletin, Issues 55-57The Museum, 1983 - China |
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... horse masks and crests , like some of the Pazaryk bridle ornaments , and like the tattooed images on the man from barrow 2 , present images in which are fused aspects of dissimilar animals . Horses become stags or stags with beaked ...
... horse masks and crests , like some of the Pazaryk bridle ornaments , and like the tattooed images on the man from barrow 2 , present images in which are fused aspects of dissimilar animals . Horses become stags or stags with beaked ...
Page 124
... horse to become a vehicle for the attack of a tiger on a stag ; another transforms the horse into a stag ; a third causes the horse to carry the attack of a bird on a goat ; and the fourth causes the horse's head to carry a battle ...
... horse to become a vehicle for the attack of a tiger on a stag ; another transforms the horse into a stag ; a third causes the horse to carry the attack of a bird on a goat ; and the fourth causes the horse's head to carry a battle ...
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... horse . The Metropolitan Museum of Art , Fletcher Fund , 1925 . Bronze plaque , silver gilt : twisted mythical horse . The Metropolitan Museum of Art , Rogers Fund , 1918 . Bronze plaque of an antlered wolf . After : A. Salmony , Sino ...
... horse . The Metropolitan Museum of Art , Fletcher Fund , 1925 . Bronze plaque , silver gilt : twisted mythical horse . The Metropolitan Museum of Art , Rogers Fund , 1918 . Bronze plaque of an antlered wolf . After : A. Salmony , Sino ...
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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