
Pottery jar with snake-biting-toad motifs
Neolithic period, dating back 8,000 years

Stone snake
Shang and Zhou dynasties (c.16 century-256 BC).

Bronze handled you (wine container) decorated with embossed snake and frog motifs
Late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)

Black-lacquered wooden dou vessel with a dragon-and-snake-shaped base
Warring States Period (475-221 BC)

Seal of the King of the Dian Kingdom with a snake-shaped knob
Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24)

Portrait brick depicting a tortoise intertwined with a snake
Song Dynasty (420-479) of the Southern Dynasty era (420-589)

Grey pottery figurine with a snake head and a human body
Sui Dynasty (581-618)

Wooden sculpture depicting two human heads sharing a snake body
Yang Wu Kingdom of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960)

Golden accessory of a Buddhist deity with snakes
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

Snake from the Twelve Zodiac Album
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

Pottery item with a hollow circular base and three coiled snakes sculpted on its surface
Xia Dynasty (c.21st century-16th century BC)

Bronze sword blade and its bronze scabbard adorned with openwork snake motifs
Early Western Zhou Dynasty (c.11th century-771 BC)

Bronze drum base in the design of three coiled snakes
Warring States Period (475-221 BC)

Gold ornaments with coiled snake motifs
Warring States Period (475-221 BC)

Bronze figurine with snake motifs on the chest
Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24)

Twin-snake brick
Eastern Wei Dynasty (534-550)

Ancient silk painting depicting Fuxi and Nüwa with intertwined snake tails
Tang Dynasty (618-907)

The personified sculpture of the Wings mansion
Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)

Famille rose porcelain vase with depictions of key moments from "The Legend of the White Snake"
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

Silver filigree business card case decorated with flower and snake motifs
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

