#shang bronze

[yebreed]

Steampunk Divine Beast From Spring And Autumn Period.

Richer in zoomorphic options than the griffin, this teasing bronze beast is actually a musical instrument bracket. Geometric and animalistic patterns are inlaid with turquoise.

Bronze of the Spring and Autumn period. In the collection of Henan Museum (河南博物院).

Photo: ©正太破

[evilhorse]

Ya know, they don’t make Hydra agents like they usedta!

(Marvel Two-In-One #29)

[ancientorigins]

Archaeologists uncover a lost Bronze Age town in China's Henan, yielding ancient Shang Dynasty jade treasures and nine elite tombs, marking a major historical find.

[golgafrincham]

鸟

[blueiskewl]

An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel  Late Shang - Western Zhou dynasty

Well cast with a slightly bulging midsection rising from a splayed foot to a wide trumpet neck, cast around the body in crisp relief with two animal masks against a background of thunder patterns (leiwen) between bow-string bands, each mask flanked by kui dragons shown in profile, the interior cast with two characters reading ran mu ('mother of the Ran clan').

H. 21.8 cm.

[comicartarchive]

Master of Kung Fu 94 pg15 by Mike Zeck

[ginge1962]

Master of Kung Fu No.58 - Nov 1977, cover by Dave Cockrum & Frank Giacoia.

[leonsrightarm]

wwhen the pdf comes with hyperlinks to relevant sources and figures

[atlasfoundation]

Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #18

[keycomicbooks]

Master of Kung Fu #69 (1978) Mike Zeck Art, Doug Moench Story, Shang Chi Versus Skull Crusher "Stairway to Rage!"

#MasterofKungFu #69 (1978) #MikeZeck Art, #DougMoench Story, #ShangChi Versus Skull Crusher "Stairway to Rage!" In the tradition of Bruce Lee's classic "Game of Death," Shang Chi battles his way through three challenges only to come face-to-face with the deadly Skull Crusher https://www.rarecomicbooks.fashionablewebs.com/Master%20of%20Kung%20Fu.html#69   #RareComicBooks #KeyComicBooks #MarvelComics #MCU #MarvelUniverse #ComicBooks #NerdyGifts #KeyIssue

[bronze-bits-babyyy]

I was watching Moana the other day and I saw this one scene when Maui distracts Teka by dancing-

and all I could think of was

ON A DARK DESERT HIGHWAY, COOL WIND-

because is that not the equivalent

[yebreed]

Janus-like zoomorphic bronze item from the late Shang dynasty

Oval Shang dynasty pot with two pig heads facing in opposite directions. The bronze handles were recast in later eras. Exhibited in Shanghai Museum.

Such mirrored zoo- and anthropomorphic patterns were conceived, presumably so that guests always see the vessel from the front side. It’s a common motif in the paradoxical design of the early bronze.

[evilhorse]

Marvel Two-In-One #29

[galatur]

>:3

[panicinthestudio]

Tigers, dragons, and, monsters on a Shang Dynasty Ewer, May 15, 2021

Lidded ritual ewer (guang) with taotie, dragons, birds, tigers, elephants, fish, snakes, and humans, Shang Dynasty, Middle Yangzi Valley, China, 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) A conversation with Keith Wilson, Curator of Ancient Chinese art, and Beth Harris Smarthistory

Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals, ca. 1100-1050 BCE

Late Anyang period, probably late Shang dynasty

Bronze

H x W x D: 32.2 × 32.2 × 15.7 cm (12 11/16 × 12 11/16 × 6 3/16 in)

This extraordinary vessel bristles with life, from the birds at the front and on the handles, to the humans wrapped in snakes on the back legs. Most likely made in southern China, it seems to offer a view of a spirit world in constant movement and flux.

This interestingly shaped ewer, a vase-shaped pitcher, is called a guang ("gwang") in Chinese. It is designed as a pouring vessel. The broad, raised spout aligns with a vertical handle at the back. It ingeniously combines a handful of fantastic beasts into its form. At the front of the vessel is a horned bird with a hooked beak. Its wings, composed of coiled dragons, cover its flanks. The space between these areas is filled with matching pairs of dragons, reptiles, and birds. The handle also takes the shape of a standing bird, its head caught in the jaws of a horned beast. It divides the animal mask —taotie —into halves. Find one of its staring eyes. Below it is a snout and open mouth. The creature has the head of a snake man in either side of its mouth. The lid is decorated with two prominent animal masks: a ram head at the front and a buffalo head at the back. See if you can identify the animals that form their horns and fill the area between the two bodiless heads. Collection of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian

[blueiskewl]

An inscribed archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, Jue, Shang dynasty

H. 20.8 cm, w. 17 cm. Cast beneath the handle with a two-character inscription reading Fu Yi ('Father Yi').