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Recumbent Ox
Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), Warring States period (475–221 BCE)
Not on view
This small sculpture was probably an ornament that adorned a large bronze vessel. Richly embellished with abstract arabesque inlays, the piece epitomizes the secularization of ritual bronzes into emblems of status and wealth in the late Zhou dynasty.
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