Lijiashan in Jiangchuan

Lijiashan’s excavated bronzes include vessels, tools, ornaments and the Cow-and-Tiger Bronze Table. Tomb context and later museum care form different chapters in the objects’ histories.

The Bronze Table with Tiger and Oxen: views and animal details. Excavated at Lijiashan and held by Yunnan Provincial Museum.

Lijiashan in Jiangchuan

The Bronze Table with Tiger and Oxen, from Lijiashan; the present photograph shows a museum object.

A Society in Small Bronze Figures

Near Xingyun Lake, objects from a cemetery preserve animals, tools and human activity at the scale of a hand.

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How a Bronze Ox Becomes a Table

The Cow-and-Tiger Bronze Table joins animal bodies, an open space and a usable surface in one carefully assembled form.

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The Bronze Table with Tiger and Oxen: views and animal details. Excavated at Lijiashan and held by Yunnan Provincial Museum.Cangminzho · 2018-03-07 15:40:40 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
The Bronze Table with Tiger and Oxen: views and animal details. Excavated at Lijiashan and held by Yunnan Provincial Museum.Cangminzho · 2018-02-25 16:19:09 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.