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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 157–190.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., as well as other scholars of Chinese art, as they began to understand the shield-shaped pendant's origin as a Han-dynasty artifact and to explore its significance. 15. Cheng L., Han, Zhang, and Yuan, “Xi'an dongjiao Xi Han Dou Shi mu (M3) fajue baogao.” 14. For specific sites...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Society 2021 Han-dynasty art iconographic volatility Fuxi Nüwa the Grand One (Taiyi) Daoist cosmogony Fuxi 伏羲 and Nüwa 女媧, a pair of creation deities in Han mythology, are commonly represented as dyads. On an embellished hollow brick recently uncovered at Mangshan 邙山, Yanshi 偃師, and dated...
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in The Shield-Shaped Jade Pendant: A Singular Han-Dynasty Type and Its Later Revivals
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Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 36. Shield-shaped pendant, Western Han dynasty (206 bce –9 ce ). Jade, l. 6.5 cm, w. 4.2 cm, th. 0.5.cm. Art Institute of Chicago. Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection, 1950.656. Photograph: Art Institute of Chicago/Art Resource, NY.
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (1): 67–86.
Published: 01 April 2018
... in the light of textual sources and later depictions of such towers in Han-dynasty art. Early textual references to these structures use a variety of terms, including que , guan 觀, xiangwei 象魏, jique 冀闕, and diehuang 絰皇. 10 The precise distinctions among these terms are often unclear...
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in The Shield-Shaped Jade Pendant: A Singular Han-Dynasty Type and Its Later Revivals
> Archives of Asian Art
Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 37. Shield-shaped pendant, China, Han dynasty (206 bce –220 ce) . Translucent yellow-gray jade, l. 6.99 cm, w. 6.35 cm, th. 0.64 cm. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Bequest of Alfred F. Pillsbury, 50.46.371. Photograph: Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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in Painting Bronze in Early China: Uncovering Polychromy in China's Classical Sculptural Tradition
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 40. Tripod bowl with human-shaped legs and abstract motifs, Western Han dynasty, 202 bce –9 ce . Bronze with polychrome paint, h. 10.2 cm, diam. 16.2 cm. Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts: Alexander H. Bullock Fund, 1952.8. Photograph © Worcester Art Museum / Bridgeman Images.
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in Painting Bronze in Early China: Uncovering Polychromy in China's Classical Sculptural Tradition
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 48. Ritual food vessel ( ding ), Western Han dynasty, second century bce . Bronze with two loop handles, a cover, and painted decoration, h. 13.1 cm, diam. 14.9 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Ann Mitchell Richards Fund, 39.576. Photograph © 2022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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in Vernacular Painting and Transitional Beijing: Chen Shizeng's Beijing Fengsu Album, ca. 1915
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Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 11. West Wall Ink Rubbing at the Wu Liang Shrine , 147–68, East Han dynasty (25–220 ce ). Ink rubbing on paper, 119 × 139.5 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the Print Revolving Fund, 1974, 1974-20-41.
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Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (2): 79–106.
Published: 01 October 2023
... in the funerary art of the Han dynasty. It most commonly appeared in pairs on tomb chamber doors, and usually functions as an apotropaic image, warding off evil, ghosts, and other malevolent beings. 8 It was often depicted on doorways to block unwanted “guests” from entering. Based on a similar kind of logic...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (1): 1–53.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Figure 40. Tripod bowl with human-shaped legs and abstract motifs, Western Han dynasty, 202 bce –9 ce . Bronze with polychrome paint, h. 10.2 cm, diam. 16.2 cm. Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts: Alexander H. Bullock Fund, 1952.8. Photograph © Worcester Art Museum / Bridgeman Images. ...
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Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of this Yuan dynasty artist. Chung, “Introduction to the Changzhou School of Painting.” For Qian Xuan's well-known painting of melons in reference to Shao Ping (fl. 210 bce ), who turned to gardening out of loyalty to the Qin after the Han conquest, see Cahill, Hills Beyond a River , fig. 5. 62...
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 April 2020
... in running script (left) and Han-dynasty clerical script (right), from prefaces to Yi, Engraved Texts . Woodblock print on paper, H. 31 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Thomas J. Watson Library. Figure 12. Comparison of the characters qiu'an 秋盫 as written by Weng Fanggang in running script...
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Archives of Asian Art (2011) 61 (1): 3–36.
Published: 01 April 2011
..., ‘‘Handai de shique (Stone Que-Towers 1991); Wu Hung, The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of
from the Han Dynasty Wenwu, 1961.11, pp. 9–23. Early Chinese Pictorial Art (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univer-
Buddhist cave fac¸ades fashioned to resemble wooden sity Press, 1989).
architecture date...
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Archives of Asian Art (2014) 64 (1): 43–57.
Published: 01 April 2014
..., of the Hemiptera order made them a potent symbol for
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Fig. 16. Cicada, China, Han dynasty (206 bce–220 ce). Jade.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington...
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in Outline, Brushwork, and the Epigraphic Aesthetic in Huang Yi's Engraved Texts of the Lesser Penglai Pavilion (1800)
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Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 12. Comparison of the characters qiu'an 秋盫 as written by Weng Fanggang in running script (left) and Han-dynasty clerical script (right), from prefaces to Yi, Engraved Texts . Woodblock print on paper, H. 31 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Thomas J. Watson Library.
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of 1:2:1. Their placement corresponds with that of false windows on house-shaped burial chambers that originated in southern China, then controlled by the ethnically Han Chinese Southern Dynasties ( Figure 14 ). Likewise, a large number of southern house-shaped burial tombs feature rectangular barrel...
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Archives of Asian Art (2003) 53 (1): 105–107.
Published: 01 April 2003
... for research on gold and silver finds in
under Alexander C. Soper at Bryn Mawr College, writing China (1983), on Bronze Age cultures of China's border-
her dissertation of 1961 on early Chinese pictorial art lands (1985), and on Eurasian short swords (1988). And she
from the Han through the Six Dynasties...
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Archives of Asian Art (2001) 52 (1): 121–127.
Published: 01 April 2001
..., vol. 24 (1970-1971), pp. 16-40; A Rare Ming Textile in Sweden, vol. 17 (1963), pp. 33-37; A
23-35; The Mughal Painter Kesu Das, vol. 3o (1976-1977), PP. 34-52. Ming Dynasty Pantheon Painting, vol. 18 (1964), PP. 38-47.
Berger, Patricia. Purity and Pollution in Han Art, vol. 36 (1983), pp...
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Archives of Asian Art (2011) 61 (1): 107–126.
Published: 01 April 2011
... of a
cultural activities.36 Such political conditions undoubt- literary genre about the making, transmission, and col-
edly provided the basis on which the collection was lecting of art.40 Moreover, Mr. Dugu’s personal name,
formed, because it shaped the ‘‘market’’ from which Shenshu, as it appears in Han...
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Archives of Asian Art (2007) 57 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 April 2007
... of
Taihe-era (477–499 ce) reforms demanded Chinese fifth-century imperial elite burials near Jiankang.40 Like
dress and use of Han dialect (instead of Xianbei) at all large-scale Southern Dynasties tombs, this is a rect-
BONNIE CHENG Fashioning...
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