Unknown artist, "Zun wine vessel in the shape of an owl" (13th–12th century BCE), bronze (all images courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Art) The artifact is a zun, a bronze container for wine from the ...
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2,000-year-old bronze drum reveals cultural practice in southwestern China
The Cultural Relics Management Department announced that a farmer in China, while working, stumbled ...
The phrase “Chinese Bronze” is, for most, synonymous with the austere vessels used in ancient state rituals or ancestor ...
A new digital archive is making thousands of mysterious ancient Chinese emblematic symbols accessible to anyone with an ...
Lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the bronzes range from a wine vessel depicting a double owl to a celestial horse sculpture, all illustrating how early humans honored ancestors and deities.
Bronze Age pottery unearthed in northwest China has revealed the secret to making red rice wine that was ceremonially consumed in the region in the second millennium BC. Previous research has ...
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When Marco Polo returned to Venice from a place he called Catai in 1295, he brought back sublime tales of another world. Polo’s Book of the Marvels of the World told of paper money, a burning black ...
Publication based on the papers given at a symposium held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Nov. 4, 2000, and in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sept. 17-Nov. 26, ...
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