User:BabelStone/Beijing Museum
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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