Bulletin, Issue 35, Pages 129-140The Museum, 1963 - China |
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Page 134
... characters appearing in the oracle script and bronze inscriptions of the same period . Pl . IX gives some of these written forms for fish , bird , bat , rooster , cicada , dragon , tiger , ele- phant , sheep , scorpion and others ...
... characters appearing in the oracle script and bronze inscriptions of the same period . Pl . IX gives some of these written forms for fish , bird , bat , rooster , cicada , dragon , tiger , ele- phant , sheep , scorpion and others ...
Page 135
... characters which we use nowadays . All these ancient symbols of writing are common characters drawn from the Shang oracle script , reading either as yang which means a sheep or goat , or as hsiang , meaning happiness or good luck ...
... characters which we use nowadays . All these ancient symbols of writing are common characters drawn from the Shang oracle script , reading either as yang which means a sheep or goat , or as hsiang , meaning happiness or good luck ...
Page 140
... characters used in bronze inscriptions . Shang . After Chin wên pien ( 8 ) . Plate X. Bronze 1. Human head on a pole finial , Honan . Shang . After 5 , Pl . 37. d . 2. Mask , Hou - chia - chuang , Honan . Shang . After 5 , Pl . 38. a ...
... characters used in bronze inscriptions . Shang . After Chin wên pien ( 8 ) . Plate X. Bronze 1. Human head on a pole finial , Honan . Shang . After 5 , Pl . 37. d . 2. Mask , Hou - chia - chuang , Honan . Shang . After 5 , Pl . 38. a ...
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An-yang ancient China Andersson animal art animal designs Animal figures animal head animal mask animal style bird body bone bronze inscriptions ch'i tetrapod characters Chêng-chou Chêng-tzu-yai Chin wên pien Chinese art cicada composite animal conventionalized Courtesy cover curved decorative design decorative patterns Decorative realism deer ears Eastern Antiquities elab elephants eyebrows eyes Freer Gallery Gallery of Art handle Honan Hong Kong horns Hou-chia-chuang human face human figure human head Hunan Hupei inlay K'ao K'ao-ku-yen-chiu-so k'uei dragons Kansu Kiangsi kuang ewer kuei large number Late Shang legs Liang-ch'êng-chên Liaoning Lung-shan Ma-chia-yao Mizuno mouth Mu-fei collection neolithic nose oracle script Ordos bronzes p'an basin Painted human Plate pottery vessels primitive naturalism Private collection Pu-chao-chai rhinoceros Rostovtzeff Scythian Shang animal Shang artist Shang China Shansi Shantung shape sheep Shih-chia-ho Sir Ellis stylized T'ao-t'ich mask technique tiger ting tripod tsun container type of animal various types wood carving Yang-shao Ying-p'an-li yu wine-can 爵文