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Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–9 CE)
The gold and silver wire inlays on this blade depict animals moving through a stylized landscape. As in Han painting, naturalistic forms are reduced to quintessential linear expressions that vividly convey a sense of life and motion.
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西漢 錯金銀青銅劍
Title: Sword Blade
Period: Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–9 CE)
Culture: China
Medium: Bronze inlaid with gold and silver
Dimensions: L. 20 1/4 in. (51.4 cm); W. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); D. 1/4 in. (.6 cm)
Classification: Metalwork
Credit Line: Gift of Florance Waterbury, 1965
Accession Number: 65.74.1
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