EditorialArchitectural Brick with Ogre Mask. China, from the pagoda at Xiuding Si (Xiuding Temple) at Mount Qingliang, near Anyang, Henan province. Date: 750 AD-799 AD. Dimensions: 42.0 ? 36.2 ? 11.4 cm (16 1/2 ? 14 1/4 ? 4 1/2 in.). Molded terracotta with trac...
EditorialOwl-Shaped Wine Vessel?(Zun), 13th11th century B.C., Bronze, 8 1/8 ? 3 7/8 in. (20.7 ? 9.8 cm), This zun, or wine vessel, is cast in the shape of an owl whose head forms a removable lid. A scaled snake with a tigers head forms the pinion of each wing. ...
EditorialRitual Food Vessel?(Ding), Bronze, 6 1/2 ? 5 3/4 in. (16.5 ? 14.6?cm), Early Chinese bronze vessels were cast using a distinctive piece-mold technology, in which several ceramic pieces were carved individually and assembled around a clay core. The spac...
Editorial? ???, Spouted Wine Vessel (Gong), Shang dynasty (ca. 1600?1046 B.C.), 13th century B.C., China (Henan Province, possibly Anyang), Bronze, H. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm), Metalwork, Every surface of this vessel is animated with fantastic creatures: an owl-like...
EditorialFemale musicians. Three stoneware figures covered with creamy white glaze, from the tomb of General Chang Sheng, Sui Dynasty. Excavated 1959 at Anyang, Honan, China. Height: 17, 20, and 19 cm.