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complement on the left is portrayed — we can guess
the form of the second figure from the first. The
musician's long mallet is bent (rather than straight
as it would have been in reality) to illustrate the
musician striking the bell. Bells and chime stones
are here suspended together on the same stand, a
representation belied by archeological evidence:
the Leigudun chimes, as well as chimes from other
known sites, indicate that bells and stones were
invariably hung on separate stands.
Only one other piece comparable to the birdshaped
box has been found — a stemmed dou
with a lid found at Yutaishan, Jiangling (Hubei
province). 2 The decoration of the cup itself is more
naturalistic in style than that of the Leigudun box,
and the motif that decorates the stem — diagonal
lines ending in spirals — is typical of the latter part
of the fourth century BCE. AT
1 Excavated in 1978; published: Hubei 1989,1:363-365, figs.
222-224, an d 2: color pi. 14 and pi. 130; Tokyo 1992, no. 13;
Goepper 1995, no. 72; Rawson 1996, no. 65; Tokyo 19983,
no. 11.
2 Hubei 19843,102, fig. 77.1; color pi. i and pi. 61.
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