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Page 117
... reference to " right " and " left " is by reference to the wearer of the plaques . The first thing to note is that the Siberian Treasure includes no images of stags with bird - headed antler tines . It does include , however , a number ...
... reference to " right " and " left " is by reference to the wearer of the plaques . The first thing to note is that the Siberian Treasure includes no images of stags with bird - headed antler tines . It does include , however , a number ...
Page 125
... reference to antlers ( as found in the Verkneudinsk plaque ) was finally discarded , and the tree — qua tree - embraced as the primary motif . Nothing else can explain the abrupt appearance , here , of a landscape setting ; or its ...
... reference to antlers ( as found in the Verkneudinsk plaque ) was finally discarded , and the tree — qua tree - embraced as the primary motif . Nothing else can explain the abrupt appearance , here , of a landscape setting ; or its ...
Page 141
... reference . And though its leaping tigers ( fig . 24a ) and perched rams seem almost to have served as the prototypes for those on the Ting - hsien and Tokyo tubes ( figs . 24c , d ) ( as well as on numerous other objects from the early ...
... reference . And though its leaping tigers ( fig . 24a ) and perched rams seem almost to have served as the prototypes for those on the Ting - hsien and Tokyo tubes ( figs . 24c , d ) ( as well as on numerous other objects from the early ...
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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