Standing Bronze Figure from Sanxingdui
Bronze standing figure, Late Shang Period (c. 1300-1100 B.C.)
Sanxingdui Museum, Guanghan
Bronze standing figure from Sanxingdui, over life-size, c. 1200 BCE. Excavated in 1986, the figure had been deliberately broken and dumped in a pit probably containing the remains of sacrificial animals.
[Craig Clunas, Art in China (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 19]
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