. Guide leaflet. A GROUP OF WHEELS OF LIFE CARVED IN WHITE JADE Two have movablecenters and can be rotated by holding the loose central piece between thumb andforefinger. The other one has a swastika for a center. Whitlock Collection 20 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLET have been handed downfrom very ancient times,Chinese artists havelearned to express thesedesigns in highly conven-tionalized no instance is thismore obvious than inthe treatment of thedragon in carved sinuous body hastaken on angular bendsor perhaps more frequently has dividedand branched like a heraldic mantl
. Guide leaflet. A GROUP OF WHEELS OF LIFE CARVED IN WHITE JADE Two have movablecenters and can be rotated by holding the loose central piece between thumb andforefinger. The other one has a swastika for a center. Whitlock Collection 20 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLET have been handed downfrom very ancient times,Chinese artists havelearned to express thesedesigns in highly conven-tionalized no instance is thismore obvious than inthe treatment of thedragon in carved sinuous body hastaken on angular bendsor perhaps more frequently has dividedand branched like a heraldic mantle. Hisfeet have disappeared, or where present,the toes sometimes spread Hke the spokesof a wheel, the claws joining on to eachother in a A SYMBOL OF LMMOUTALITV Highly conventionalized butterflycarved from white jade to a pair of fishes orcarp, whereas one carpoften stands for poweror literary eminence.(hang Tao-ling, whomay be considered theactual founder of mod-ern Taoism, is repre-sented as riding on atiger under whose paware crushed the fivevenomous creatures: theUzard, snake, spider, toad, and these five are represented to-gether in carved jade in an amulet knownas the Five Poisons. When Buddhism was introduced intoChina from India Often a dragonholds or supports around object like apearl, which reallyrepresents the sun,phototype of theYang. Often associatedwith a dragon indesigns of carvedjade, is the phoenix,a highly conven-tionalized birdwhich ordinarily symbolizes prosperity. The phoenix, how-ever, also stands for passionate love andis consequently an appropriate and sym-bolic love gift. Much the same symboHsm is attached
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