National Treasure – Yangshao Boat-shaped Painted Pottery Jar (Neolithic)
Egyptian painted boats on pottery jar during Predynastic period (~3500BC), the Chinese made boat-shaped pottery jar.
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National Treasure – Painted Pottery Jar with Stork, Fish and Stone Axe (Neolithic-Yangshao)
One of the earliest storytelling depicted on a pottery jar from 5000 years ago.
National Treasure – Jade Dragon (Neolithic – Hongshan)
This is the famous C-shaped jade dragon, a significant artefact from the Neolithic Hongshan culture.
National Treasure – Painted Pottery Basin with Dancing Figures (Neolithic)
I like to shake a leg /
I like to nod my head /
I like to make a snow angel while lying in my bed /
– Jason Mraz, “I feel like dancing”
National Treasure – Seal of Dian King (Western Han)
It was the fashion to bury the seal with the dead, and due to this custom that since the Han dynasty thousands of Han seals have been unearthed.
National Treasures – Two Glass Vessels of Li Jingxun (Sui Dynasty)
The owner was a pearl on the palms of her distinguished parents, and when her life was cut short, she was buried with funerary goods of a Princess.
National Treasure – Bronze Zun with Four Rams (Shang Dynasty)
Baa Baa Black Sheep have you any wool? Yes Sir, Yes Sir, Three bags full.
National Treasure – Bronze Cowrie Containers from Antiquity Yunnan (Western Han Dynasty)
Piggy bank from 2nd century BC, it was used by the Dian 滇 people to keep their precious cowrie shells.
Treasures – Rhinoceros-shaped Bronze Zun (Western Han Dynasty)
A wine jug reminding us the importance of conservation.
Treasures – Bronze Square Hu with Intersecting Dragons (Spring Autumn – Jin)
This is perhaps the earliest of the drinking games using a wine vessel.