Bulletin, Issues 55-57The Museum, 1983 - China |
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... symbolic system . " By the fifth century , however , the purity of their individual images had largely disappeared . In place of the simple stag with elaborated antlers there appeared the stag with bird - headed antler tines . In the ...
... symbolic system . " By the fifth century , however , the purity of their individual images had largely disappeared . In place of the simple stag with elaborated antlers there appeared the stag with bird - headed antler tines . In the ...
Page 119
... symbolic structure to the representation of anecdote in a landscape setting is brought to completion by the famous plaques represent- ing mounted hunters in a landscape , or those repesenting horsemen and a " goddess " under a tree ( Pl ...
... symbolic structure to the representation of anecdote in a landscape setting is brought to completion by the famous plaques represent- ing mounted hunters in a landscape , or those repesenting horsemen and a " goddess " under a tree ( Pl ...
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... symbolism associated with the representation of animals on three dimensional objects strengthens my opinion that the dragons were carved on the Kuan - yin for a symbolic not a decorative reason . Moreover , one ought to remember the ...
... symbolism associated with the representation of animals on three dimensional objects strengthens my opinion that the dragons were carved on the Kuan - yin for a symbolic not a decorative reason . Moreover , one ought to remember the ...
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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