User:BabelStone/Beijing Museum

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National Museum of China, Beijing[edit]

Neolithic[edit]

  • Erlitu Culture stone qing

  • Dawenkou Culture pottery gui in the form of a pig

Shang Dynasty (c.1600–1046 BC)[edit]

  • Bronze mask

  • Tortoise plastron with a divination inscription

  • Ox scapula with a divination inscription

  • Animal bone with a divination inscription

Zhou Dynasty (1045–256 BC)[edit]

  • Bronze wine vessel in the shape of a foal (Western Zhou)

  • Pottery model for an animal head (Spring and Autumn Period, Jin State)

  • Pottery mould for spade coin (Spring and Autumn Period, Jin State)

  • Bronze deer ornament (Warring States Period)

  • Bronze mirror with slanted T-shaped design (Warring States Period)

  • Bronze tiger tally with inscription (Warring States Period, Chu State)

  • Bronze tallies with inscriptions inlaid in gold (Warring States Period, Chu State)

  • Rhinoceros-shaped bronze belt hook inlaid with gold and silver (Warring States Period, Ba State)

  • Pottery roof tile end (Warring States Period, Yan State)

  • Pottery roof tile end (Warring States Period, Yan State)

Qin Dynasty (221–206 BC)[edit]

  • Terracotta horse and two soldiers from the Terracotta Army buried near the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin

Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD)[edit]

  • Inscribed pottery roof tile ends (Western Han)

  • Jade pillow from the tomb of the Prince of Chu (Western Han)

  • Deer-shaped bronze mat weight mounted with shell (Western Han)

  • Painted pottery vessel (hu) with dragon and tiger design (Western Han)

  • Inkstone in lacquer case (Western Han)

  • Bronze wine vessel (zun) in the shape of a rhinoceros, with gold and silver inlaid cloud designs (Western Han)

  • Bronze seal inscribed 漢匈奴歸義親漢長 (Eastern Han)

  • Liubo players in a green-glazed pottery tower (Eastern Han)

  • Pottery three-sided courtyard house (Eastern Han)

  • Green-glazed pottery pigpen (Eastern Han)

  • Brick relief depicting wine-brewing (Eastern Han)

  • Brick relief depicting rice-husking (Eastern Han)

  • Brick relief depicting a market scene (Eastern Han)

  • Brick relief depicting a courtyard residence (Eastern Han)

  • Brick relief depicting a horse-drawn carriage (Eastern Han)

  • Brick relief with performers and jugglers (Eastern Han)

  • Stone carving depicting the divine healer Bian Que 扁鵲 and two Liubo players (Eastern Han)

  • Stone sundial with Liubo markings

  • Fragments of stone well railings with a Buddhist inscription written in the Kharoshthi script

Jin Dynasty (265–280)[edit]

  • Porcelain figures and cart

Northern Dynasties (386–581)[edit]

  • Pottery female singer and two musicians (Northern Wei)

  • Gold hat ornament in the shape of an ox head with deer antlers with gold leaves

Southern Dynasties (420–589)[edit]

  • Brick relief depicting a phoenix

  • Brick relief depicting a pair of mythical creatures, inscribed 千秋 and 萬歲

  • Brick relief depicting the "four white-haired scholars of the Southern Mountain" (南山四皓)

  • Brick relief depicting two scholars and two maids

Tang Dynasty (618–907)[edit]

  • Stone inscription commemorating the building of the Hall of Containing Light (Hanhuang Dian 含光殿) and a polo field in the year 831 (Dahe 5)

  • Pottery dumpling and delicacies from a Tang Dynasty tomb

Five Dynasties (907–960) and Ten Kingdoms Period (907–979)[edit]

  • Gilded bronze door knocker from the tomb of Wang Jian 王建 (Former Shu)

  • Painted stone relief depicting a warrior from the tomb of Wang Chuzhi 王處直 (Later Liang)

Song Dynasty (960–1279)[edit]

  • Northern Song glazed brick with dragon design from the Kaibao Temple Pagoda at Kaifeng

  • Bronze plate for printing an advertisement for the Liu family needle shop at Jinan

  • Brick reliefs depicting a woman washing dishes and a woman preparing a fish

  • Bronze mirror depicting people playing kickball (cuju 蹴鞠)

  • Bronze mirror depicting a puppet show

Western Xia (1038–1227)[edit]

  • Five bronze seals of the Western Xia state, each inscribed with the two character word "Commander" in Tangut seal script

  • Bronze seal with "Commander" in Tangut seal script

  • Bronze pass (paizi) with a four character inscription in the Tangut script

  • Bronze two-part pass (paizi) with four character inscription in the Tangut script inlaid in silver

  • Grey pottery Kalaviṅka-shaped architectural ornament

  • Glazed pottery Kalaviṅka-shaped architectural ornament

Jin Dynasty (1115–1234)[edit]

  • Pottery figurines of musicians (a flute player on the left, and a someone beating clappers on the right)

  • Bronze mirror with double fish design

  • Bronze plate for printing the Xingding era paper currency

  • Bronze seal inscribed "河東南路兵馬都總管印", dated 12th year of the Dading era (1172) on its back

  • Bronze seal inscribed "韓州刺史之印", dated 2nd year of the Dading era (1162) on its back

Yuan Dynasty (1206–1368)[edit]

  • Bronze printing plate for the Zhiyuan banknote

  • Zhiyuan banknote

  • Silver paizi inscribed 天賜成吉思皇帝聖旨疾 "Bestowed by Heaven, the imperial edict of Emperor Chinggis [Genghis Khan]. Urgent."

  • Iron plate with Arabic numbers arranged in a 6 × 6 grid to form a magic square adding up to 111 horizontally, vertically and diagonally

  • Bronze cannon with inscription dated the 3rd year of the Zhiyuan era (1332).

  • Three hollow pottery caltrops that would have been filled with gunpowder

Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)[edit]

  • Copperplate for printing the Great Ming one string banknote

Qing Dynasty (1644–1911)[edit]

  • Silver seal of the Jedruong Hutuktu, with inscriptions in the Tibetan and Manchu scripts

Bohai/Balhae Kingdom[edit]

  • Brick fragment inscribed with the characters shang jing 上京 "Upper Capital"

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