Sanxingdui Bronze Mask

A bronze mask unearthed from Sichuan's Sanxingdui, an ancient Chinese city where archaeologists discovered remarkable artefacts that radiocarbon date to the 12th-11th centuries BCE.

A bronze mask with eyes sticking out for 9cm and its eyeballs are several centimeters long. In addition, various kinds of bronze heads, bronze sculptures, animals and plants and jade wares were included inside the site. Some of them are spiritualized; some of them are realistic style.

Sanxingdui Mound Site, a mysterious ancient empire, locates at Guanghan, a city over twenty kilometers away from Chengdu. The Sanxingdui culture occurred between 2800 B.C. to 800 B.C.(mainly in the Warring States period). The first jade article was discovered in Sanxingdui Mound site in 1931. Numerous experts put hard endeavors to make further discoveries and got great success. Up to now, the excavated area has extended twelve square kilometers. A large number of gold vessels, bronze wares, jade wares, stone wares, pottery wares, ivories and other art articles have been unearthed.

Guojizi Bronze Plate

It is a container for water and measures 137.2 centimeters in length, 86.5 centimeters in width and weighs 215.3 kilograms. It was made in the Western Zhou Dynasty and was excavated in Baoji, Shanxi province in 1938.

Like Dayu Ding, it is also famous for its inscriptions that include 111 Chinese logographs on its inner bottom. The inscriptions tell that Zibai of the Guo kingdom won a victorious battle and King Zhou held a dinner for him. Zibai made this plate as a memorial.