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Keith Wilson, Curator of Ancient Chinese art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian

Lidded ritual ewer (guang) with taotie, dragons, birds, tigers, elephants, fish, snakes, and humans, China, Middle Yangzi Valley, c. 1100–1050 B.C.E., bronze, 31.4 x 31.5 x 14.4 cm (Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer. F1961.33a-b) — Tigers, dragons, and, monsters on a Shang Dynasty Ewer

Tigers, dragons, and, monsters on a Shang ...

by Keith Wilson, Curator of Ancient Chinese art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian and Dr. Beth Harris