Liaoning Provincial Museum
As the first museum of the New China, Liaoning Provincial Museum is well-known all over the world for its rich collections and distinct features. So far, it has collected nearly 120,000 pieces of cultural relics, including tens of thousands of pieces of valuable cultural relics. Most of the collections are cultural relics and historic art relics unearthed in Liaoning, in 17 categories including calligraphy, painting, silk embroidery, bronze and porcelain. Paintings and calligraphy works of Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, K’o-ssu embroidery works of Song, Yuan and Qing dynasties, Jades of Hongshan Culture, bronze wares unearthed from the hoard of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, porcelain wares of Liao Dynasty, epitaphs of the previous generations, prints of Ming and Qing Dynasties, ancient maps, currencies through the ages are the most characteristic and influential.
Gold ingot weighing 10 liang with the inscription—“Chen Erlang” of the Southern Song Dynasty
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A kind of money by weight; made of gold, in the shape of horseshoe
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A kind of money by weight; made of gold, in the shape of horseshoe
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Phoenix-shaped gold earrings
Excavated in the tomb of Liao Dynasty in Wuqintulu Village, Zhangjiayingzi Town, Jianping County; decorated with soaring and dancing phoenix-shaped ornaments; being beautiful and dignified with exquisite craftsmanship;
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Phoenix-patterned gold jewelry inlayed with jade (crescent gold jewelry inlayed with jade)
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Jin Dynasty; excavated in Fangshen Village, Beipiao County, Chaoyang City; Length 14cm; Width 5cm
The gold foil being cut in the shape of crescent, with a rectangular frame bulging in the center; with a hole perforated in its back and another gold foil riveted as the wall; inlayed with a blue jade slip as ornamentation in the frame; with face-to-face phoenixes pattern carved on both sides, glowing with a radiant look; with four round holes perforated on both ends of the gold foil respectively, seemingly threaded to act as an ornament hanging around the neck or sewed on the clothes as an ornament; Murong’s family of Xianbei nationality often used patterns of dragon and phoenix as ornamentation. The phoenix pattern on the jewelry was carved, the craftsmanship of which was rare and unconventional.
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Gold thimble
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Gold ingot weighing 20 liang with double gourd-shaped mintmarks of the Southern Song Dynasty
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