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- Hou Chuo Square Ding
- This cooking vessel has a rectangular body with two thick upright handles. Its vertical wall tapers slightly inwards. The decorative patterns on the belly and four feet are animal mask designs.
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- Xiao Chenshan Zhi
- It was recorded that King Wu of Zhou toppled the Shang Dynasty and founded the Zhou Dynasty. To appease Shang's remaining forces, he made Yin a manor for Wu Geng...
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- Four-Sheep-Head Pou
- The vessel is grand and solemn. Exquisite designs can be seen around its body. Four homologous ridges are separately cast on the belly and ring base.
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- Fu Yi Gong
- Gong is a kind of wine vessel and this one's shape is a hybrid of many different animals. Its cover is adorned with the head of an imaginary animal with rabbit ears and giraffe horns...
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Square Yue with Inlaid Cross Pattern
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The whole body is an ellipsoid with a plump belly, overlaid with many projecting and hooked ridges. The knob of the lid is like a budding flower,...
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Bronze Ware
Gilt Bronze Human-Shaped Lamp, Gold and Silver-Plating Boshan Censer, Bronze Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow, Bronze Mirror, Sanxingdui Bronze Heads, Bronze Wine Vessels of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Simuwu Bronze Vessel, Bronze Chime-bells of Marquis Yi of the Zeng State, Bronze Ware of the Zhongshan State
Zun is an important variety of bronze wine vessels. The representative masterpiece, the square zun carved with four sheep heads unearthed from...
The dragon and phoenix patterns around the body are carved in low relief with line cutting technique, the four sides of the neck are decorated with...
The concave typeface of the characters is called as characters cut in intaglio; the raised characters are called as characters cut in relief.
The cowrie container is a unique type of bronze of the Dian Culture.
Using a pillow to support the head when sleeping began no later than the Western Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plain area.
Sheng was used to measure cereal in ancient times. It originated from the Warring States Period.
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