Search Results for tomb jades

...Susan N. Erickson Abstract Objects carved of jade often were placed in Han-dynasty burials of people of high rank. This article focuses on a small, shield-shaped (or “heart-shaped”) pendant frequently found near the deceased. The development of the type is examined through its appearance in tombs...

... is essential in providing the bodily soul with an eternal abode. From the Zhou and Han dynasties, the material of jade was used lavishly in high-ranking burials. For royal tombs, the corpse was always covered with a “jade suit.” Wu Hung argues that the “jade suit” transformed the vulnerable human body...

... of rebirth for the ancient Chinese because jade cicadas from tombs or depicted in sculpture and wall paintings were placed in the graves of the deceased as early as the share the peaked silhouette of this character, affirming Neolithic period. Specimens have also been uncovered the correlation between...

... category of pictorial art. The significance of these squares becomes apparent by analyzing the overall composition of the sarcophagus, which was decorated to simulate three successive layers of space: the wood coffin (inner layer); the tomb chamber (middle layer) enclosing the coffin...

.... The Decor Styles of Shang White Pottery, vol. 21 Ch'en Meng-chia. Style of Chinese Bronzes, vol. i (1945-1946), PP. (1967-1968), pp. 39-62; Ch'an Portraits in a Landscape, vol. 27 26-52. (1973-1974), pp. 8-29; Facing the Unseen: On the Interior Childs-Johnson, Elizabeth. Symbolic Jades...

... of it might exercise its benign effects. contemporary Song auspicious occurrences were embla- 78 Fig. 8. Line drawing of ceiling decoration in the tomb of Princess Yongtai (684-701; entombed 706); dimensions unknown. From Betty Tseng Yu-ho Ecke, "Emperor Hui Tsung, The Artist" (Ph.D...

... of different social, political, and religious contexts, from city walls and palaces to imperial shrines and tombs. After the First Qin Emperor and Emperor Wu of the Han erected twin towers at the palaces they built in their pursuit of immortality, twin towers also became signifiers of the celestial realm...