Emblem
If this openwork plate strikes by the schematic and powerful character of the animal in profile, mouth wide open, it is its rarity which makes it both interesting and complex [...]
Funerary object in the shape of a goose
The first anseriform objects do not seem to appear until the time of Jizhao 姬釗, King Kang 康 of Zhou (? – 996 BC). These are zun, ritual vessels intended to contain [...]
Fu Baoshi (1904-1965), River Landscape, 1956
Fu Baoshi was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. Largely self-taught, he signed his first paintings in 1925. The pictorial research of his early years led him to Japan [...]
Exorcist
This warrior, wielding a spear that no longer exists, is a fangxiangshi 方相氏: an exorcist. This function is said to have been instituted by the legendary Yellow Emperor. In charge of exorcisms [...]
