A hardstone-inlaid gilt-bronze incised 'animals' chariot canopy, Western Han dynasty | 西漢 銅鎏金嵌寶石刻百獸紋傘鋌

The present chariot canopy is divided into four pictorial planes, each decorated individually with scenes of animals. Compare a similarly decorated chariot canopy excavated from the Han-dynasty tomb in Sanpanshan, Dingzhou, Hebei province, now in Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua daquan qingtongjuan [Compendium of Chinese art. Bronzes], Taipei, 1993, pl. 1188.

本件傘鋌紋飾分為四個獨立獸紋場景。對比一件以類似風格裝飾之傘鋌，出土於河北定州三盤山漢墓，先藏於河北省文物考古研究院，見《中國文物精華大全•青銅卷》，台北，1993年，編號1188.