Shang Bronzes: Sacrificial vessel, end of second millennium BC
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Speiser, Werner
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
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Presumably from Anyang, the capital of the later Shang dynasty. The body shows two perfectly symmetrical owls, the symbol of the sun, air and spirit, side by side, with the snake, symbol of the earth-demon, close by. -- h: 7" (Mr. S. Kawai, Kyoto).
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1960
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