Help on an animal motif on Chinese spearhead

Yu-Ming Chang · 18th February 2006, 03:42 PM

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I'm no expert but it looks like an owl to me.

It does look like an owl! I was sort of fixated on (in my mind in any case) more common decorative motifs in Chinese art that I dismissed birds from my consideration simply because the carving didn't look like a phoenix.

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Valjhun · 18th February 2006, 09:24 PM

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