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Pictorial art played a marginal role in the art of China’s Bronze Age, and Han-dynasty artists were still developing basic conventions for rendering figures in space. In this landscape scene, a hunter takes aim with his bow as various creatures roam about a forest, arranged on a blank ground. Only the trees, which take root in a band of repeating diamonds making up the scene’s ornamental frame, find solid anchor.\n","remarks":"ASIA1_15_WLA  Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"[C.T. Loo Collection, France]. [Jacques Barrère, Art d'extrême-orient, Paris]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum with funds provided by Lloyd E. 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