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Plate II. A-Sacrificial Vessel for Wine (Yu Type). Early Chou Dynasty (ca. 1000 B. C.). Bronze. Height, 34 cm. (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City) This Example Seems to Show the Next Stage of Development. Balance between Shape And Decoration. The Ornamentation Is Concentrated in Three Narrow Belts, the Outlines Have Become Refined. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
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Plate II. B-Basin (P'an Type). Middle Chou Dynasty (First Half of First Millennium B. C.). Bronze. Diam. 43.8 cm. (Mr. And Mrs. Walter Sedgwick, London) The Decoration Has Lost Its Symbolic Meaning. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
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Plate II. C-Sacrificial Vessel for Wine (Lei Type). Late Chou Dynasty (ca. 500 B. C.). Bronze. Height, 25 cm. (Messrs. Bluett And Sons, London) Utilitarian Features Begin to Prevail. The Decoration, to a Great Extent Imported from Abroad, Reveals a New Spirit. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
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Plate II. D-Vase (Hu Type). Han Dynasty (First Century, B. C. or A. D.). Bronze, Decorated with Gold And Silver. Height, 35.5 cm. (Mr. C. T. Loo, New York) Utilitarian Shape of Utmost Simplicity. Outward Effects by Decoration with Gold And Silver. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
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Plate III. A-Bodhisattva (Maitreya?). From a Cave at Lung Men. ca. 500 A. D. Stone. Height, 40 cm. (Mr. M. Calmann, Paris) Example of Early Buddhist Art. Spiritualized Abstract Appearance. Symbolic Gesturc. Geometrically Stylized Folds. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
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Plate III. B-One of the Eighteen Lohan. Sung Period. Hard White Pottery with Coloured Glaze. Height, 105 cm. (University Museum, Philadelphia) Favourite Subject of the Sung Period. Verisimilitude And Grandeur of Conception Are United in Classical Harmony. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
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Plate III. C-Bodhisattva from a Cave of the T'ien Lung Shan. T'ang Period. Stone. Height, 110 cm. (Baron von der Heydt, Ascona) Acme of Medieval Sculpture. Full Rotundity of Form. Animation of Attitude. Hip Outward Bent. Body And Clothes Differentiated. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
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Plate III. D-Kuanyin. Fourteenth Century. Wood. Height, 80 cm. (Victoria And Albert Museum) Kuanyin in This Posture Is a Subject Which Originated in the T'and Period And Was Also Favoured in the Sung Era. Here Is an Example of the Beginning of Baroque. Picturesque Relaxation, Effects of Light And Shade. Deeply Cut Folds. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
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Sacrificial Vessel for Wine (Ho Type). Shang Dynasty (Second Millennium B. C.). Bronze. Height, 74.5 cm. (Mr. Nedzu, Tokyo). Earliest of Chinese Bronze Art, Showing an Already Highly Developed Style. Most Powerful And Vigorous Archaic Shape. Decoration Covers the Whole Surface And Is of Mysterious Religious Meaning. Earliest Known Style in the History of Chinese Bronzes
