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(The Western Han Bronzes Unearthed at Youyu precisely, they have not been published in quantity
County, Shansi Province), Wenwu, 1963, number in recent books and journals. For a Korean exam-
11, 4-22; Watt, Chinese Jades, 154, number 127. ple of Unified Silla (668-935) date that mirrors the
9. An unpublished Eastern Zhou tea-kettle- Tang style, see Rene-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argence editor,
shaped bronze he vessel in the Grenville L. Winthrop 5000 Years of Korean Art, San Francisco: Asian Art
Collection at the Harvard University Art Museums, Museum of San Francisco, 1979, 91, number 101;
Cambridge, rests on three legs in the form of Kim Chewon and Lena Kim Lee, Arts of Korea,
nude standing men (accession number 1943.52.92). Tokyo, New York, and San Francisco: Kodansha
Another unpublished Eastern Zhou vessel in the International, 1974, 222, figure 192.
Harvard University Art Museums, a circular jian 15. A related subject of inquiry should be the
basin in the Arnold Knapp Collection, stands on possible influence of woodblock-printed design
three legs in the form of clothed standing men elements on the diapered grounds of early Ming
(accession number 1956.78). carved cinnabar lacquer. The frontispiece to scroll
10. See Ministry of Culture and Information (Republic 4 of the circa 1160 Lotus Sutra mentioned above,
of Korea), Bureau of Cultural Properties compiler, for example, includes design elements representing
Sinan haejoyumul: Charyo p'yon, 1 (Relics from the paved terraces, rolling waves, and scrolling clouds
Sea Floor at Sinan: Material Remains Section, that would seem to prefigure those in both Yuan-
volume 1), Seoul: Tonghwa ch'ulp'an sa, 1983, 109- period secular printed books and early Ming carved
10. numbers 13a-b. lacquer. Proof of a relationship between printed
11. A largeTang-period Buddhist pagoda at Xiudingsi books and carved lacquer would answer questions
Temple, near Anyang, Henan province, for example, that have been addressed in several earlier studies;
boasts architectural ornament of a type that might see, for example, Sir Harry Garner, 'Diaper Back-
have inspired not only the decoration on this grounds on Chinese Carved Lacquer,' Ars Orientalis
censer but the numerous diaper patterns that (Washington DC), volume 6, 1966, 165-89.
typically appear on Song and Yuan bronzes [see 4 16. Zhang Guangyuan (Chang, Kuang-yuan),
and 5] and their descendants on Ming bronzes 'Dingxingqi di fangwei yu mingwen weizhi di
[see 9,11,13]. Constructed of brick, the Tang pagoda guanxi' (The Orientation of Ding Vessels in Relation
has an all-over veneer of decorative earthenware to the Position of Inscriptions), Gugong jikan (The
tiles on its exterior walls. The tiles vary in shape, but National Palace Museum Quarterly) (Taipei), vol-
those on the main faces are square or lozenge- ume 10, number 4, Summer 1976, 67-87 (English-
shaped; set on their corners, the tiles have braided, language summary 41-50).
rope-like borders, and many have floral embel- 17. Unpublished; Harvard University Art Museums
lishments at their centers. See Sun Dajang and Yu loan number LTL59.1984.
Weiguo, Jianzhu yishu bian: Zongjiao jianzhu
(Architecture: Religious Architecture), volume 4,
part 4 in Zhongguo meishu quanji (The Great
Treasury of Chinese Art), Beijing: Zhongguo jianzhu 3
gongye chubanshe, 1988, 28-29, numbers 29-30; 1. See John Alexander Pope, Rutherford John
Jane Portal, 'A Tang Dynasty Tile in the British Gettens, James Cahill, and Noel Barnard, The Freer
Museum, 1 Orientations (Hong Kong), volume 21, Chinese Bronzes, volume 1: Catalogue, Washington
number 3, March 1990, 67-71; Paula Swart and DC: Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art,
Barry Till, 'The Xiudingsi Pagoda: A Buddhist Oriental Studies 7, 1967, 597, number 118.
Architectural Masterpiece Unveiled, 1 Orientations 2. See Okazaki Takashi, Chugoku kodai (Ancient
(Hong Kong), volume 21, number5, May 1990,64-76. China), volume 10 in Sekai Toji Zenshu (Ceramic
12. See Machida International Print Museum, Art of the World), Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1982, 212,
compiler, Chugoku kodai hanga ten: Chugoku number 197.
hanga 2000 nen ten, dai san bu (Exhibition of 3. See Clarence W. Kelley, Chinese Gold and Silver
Ancient Chinese Woodblock Prints: Third Section from the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-97) in American
of an Exhibition of 2000 Years of Chinese Printing), Collections, Dayton OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1984,
Tokyo-to, Machida-shi: Machida shiritsu kokusai 81-83 and frontispiece, numbers 49-50; Jason C.
hanga bijutsukan, 1988, 84-85, number 8, scrolls 1-7. Kuo editor, Born of Earth and Fire: Chinese Ceramics
13. See Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, Paper and Printing, from the Scheinman Collection, College Park MD:
volume 5, part 1 in Joseph Needham editor, Science Department of Art History and Archaeology,
and Civilisation in China, Cambridge: Cambridge University of Maryland at College Park, and
University Press, 1985, 254, figure 1167; Machida Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1992, 78,
International Print Museum, Chugoku kodai hanga number 57.
ten, 1988, 26, illustration at top of page. 4. See Hasebe, So, 89, number 81.
14. Although such ceramic tiles must have been a 5. See Hasebe, Sq 78, number 69; 206, numbers
common feature in the courtyards of important 202-03.
temples and palaces of the Tang dynasty, they 6. See Kuo, Born of Earth and Fire, 87, number 68.
have not been preserved in great quantity; more 7. See Hasebe, So, 76-77, numbers 67-68.

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