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Art of China
Standing figure (Guanghan Sanxingdui, China), Shang
dynasty, c. 1200 BCE, bronze
Gong of animal forms (Anyang,
China), 12th or 11th century BCE,
bronze
Shang dynasty/ gong (guang)/ zoomorphic/
bilateral symmetry/ casting vs. firing/ varied animal motifs/
Chinese attitude toward nature
Bi (disk) (late Zhou
dynasty), 3rd to 4th century,
nephrite
Zhou dynasty/ bi disk/ use of
jade to suggest rank and status/
Chinese dragons
Above: k’uei dragonRight: lung dragon
Left: Rectangular “hu” vessel (Late Western Zhou period)
Below: Wine container of the “you” type, 10th century BCE
Soldiers of the Imperial Bodyguard, tomb of the Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi (Shaanxi, China)
c. 210 BCE, painted terracotta
6,000 lifesize terracotta soldiers used to convey power and authority/ soldiers facing eastward
Legalism/ model of the imperial palace
weapons of war
The Great Wall
Funeral banner from the Tomb of Dai
(Western Han dynasty), c. 168 BCE, painted silk
Han dynasty/ realms of heaven and earth
reappearance of a “bi”
the raven and the toad/ the Silk Road
Fragment of a stamped brick depicting the Queen of the
West seated on a tiger throne
and surrounded by the fox, the hare with the
herb of immortality, the
toad of the Moon, and the
raven
Incense burner, from the tomb of Prince Liu Sheng (Han dynasty),
113 BCE, bronze with gold inlay
Mythological scenes from the Wu family shrine (late Han dynasty), 147-168 CE, rubbing of a
stone relief
Confucian themes/ Yi, the
legendary archer, shoots at one of the sun-crows/ a Fusang tree/ contours of
figures suggesting
linear rhythm
Attributed to Gu Kaizhi. Lady Feng and the Bear, detail of Admonitions of the Instructress… (Period
of Disunity), late fourth century CE
Gu Zaizhi/ Period of Disunity/ the Chinese handsroll/ absence of a setting/ Xie He’s Six Laws