Jar (Hu)

202 BCE–9 CE Overall: 48.2 cm (19 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.15

Instead of depicting a real landscape, the artist focused on the rhythmic forces of nature and the movement of energy, using the scrolling form as a symbol common to all changes in nature: cloud vapors, waves, and mountains alike. Here a dragon hovers among sweeping scrolls.

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