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... sculptures are represented in the hip - thrust pose , the Ta - t'ung version is more contained and static . The different hand - gestures , likewise , espress stillness as opposed to movement . The later sculpture is portrayed with the ...
... sculptures are represented in the hip - thrust pose , the Ta - t'ung version is more contained and static . The different hand - gestures , likewise , espress stillness as opposed to movement . The later sculpture is portrayed with the ...
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... Sculpture The brick and clay sculpture so far investigated have made us acquainted with the salient traits of Liao style . Relying on them , one is able to ascribe to the Liao period the following stone and bronze sculptures , which are ...
... Sculpture The brick and clay sculpture so far investigated have made us acquainted with the salient traits of Liao style . Relying on them , one is able to ascribe to the Liao period the following stone and bronze sculptures , which are ...
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... sculpture ' , I came across a striking type of image of the Bodhisattva Kuan - yin , of uncommonly large size and remarkable state of preservation , in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Richmond ( Plates 1 and 2 ) ...
... sculpture ' , I came across a striking type of image of the Bodhisattva Kuan - yin , of uncommonly large size and remarkable state of preservation , in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Richmond ( Plates 1 and 2 ) ...
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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