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Gilt-bronze applique fragment with mythical
Gilt-bronze applique fragment with mythical
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1104
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Gilt-bronze applique fragment with mythical figures and animals in low reliefEastern Han dynasty, 25AD-220AD
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Gilt-bronze applique fragment with mythical
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BATEA : 1100
Simple name
applique
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bronze; Han; figures; animal; toad; fairy; China; mythical; Xi Wang Mu; Daoism; immortal; immortality; snake; cloud; throne; apsara; figure; dragon; tadpole; applique;
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A gilt-bronze applique fragment of roughly rectangular shape but with a bulging middle section on the top. The fragment has a slightly raised edge all round. One side is decorated in the middle with the Queen Mother of the West (Xi Wang Mu) seated on a throne with a figure riding a snake to one side and a feline and cloud in the sky above. Other figures and animals approaching the godess are rendered in low relief; to one side a dragon, a toad, a twin-headed apsara, a tadpole and two fairies in the sky all with incised details. The reverse is undecorated.
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bronze
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fragment only, extensive loss of gilding;The object was conserved by Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in 2015
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12cm (widest part)
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depth 2cm
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length 34cm
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Gallery 1, G6
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25 AD = 220 AD
Production period
Eastern Han
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China
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