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Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art

Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art

Bower, Virginia, and Robert L. Thorp
1982
96 pages
56 illustrations
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Foreword
Philippe de Montebello

Preface
Earl Morse

A Primer on the Bronze Caster's Art
Robert L. Thorp

Tomb Ceramics: The Spirit of the Living
Virginia Bower

Vestiges of Buddhist Sculpture
Robert L. Thorp

Ritual Wine Vessel (Jue), Bronze, China
China
late 11th century BCE
Wine beaker (gu), Bronze, China
China
13th–11th century BCE
Grain serving vessel (Gui), Bronze, China
China
11th–10th century BCE
Wine container (Hu), Bronze, China
China
late 9th–early 8th century BCE
Phoenix headed amphora, Earthenware with three-color (sancai) glaze, China
China
late 7th–first half of the 8th century

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Thorp, Robert L., and Virginia Bower. 1982. Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.