Bulletin, Issues 70-71The Museum, 1998 - China |
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This prominent royal image is not strictly animal but rather a frontal face with wild animal features that carry appendages of feathers and probably antlers , and a body abbreviated to bird claws . This type of standardized ...
This prominent royal image is not strictly animal but rather a frontal face with wild animal features that carry appendages of feathers and probably antlers , and a body abbreviated to bird claws . This type of standardized ...
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Like the mask and cicada , the “ displayed body ” image is rendered in both abstract and representational forms . The simplest of the more representational versions are the front and reverse images on the exterior of the marble liding ...
Like the mask and cicada , the “ displayed body ” image is rendered in both abstract and representational forms . The simplest of the more representational versions are the front and reverse images on the exterior of the marble liding ...
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The displayed bodies here are comparable to the one on the marble liding from Anyang ( Fig.50A ) . ... Simplified and varied forms of this body image are represented by the human - heads displayed frontally between the open mouths of ...
The displayed bodies here are comparable to the one on the marble liding from Anyang ( Fig.50A ) . ... Simplified and varied forms of this body image are represented by the human - heads displayed frontally between the open mouths of ...
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