Sword Blade
Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–9 CE)
Not on view
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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