Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology

Pottery jar with snake-biting-toad motifs

Neolithic period, dating back 8,000 years

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Jinsha Site Museum

Stone snake

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

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National Museum of China

Bronze handled you (wine container) decorated with embossed snake and frog motifs

Late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)

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Hubei Provincial Museum

Black-lacquered wooden dou vessel with a dragon-and-snake-shaped base

Warring States Period (475-221 BC)

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National Museum of China

Seal of the King of the Dian Kingdom with a snake-shaped knob

Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24)

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Henan Museum

Portrait brick depicting a tortoise intertwined with a snake

Song Dynasty (420-479) of the Southern Dynasty era (420-589)

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Yangzhou Museum

Wooden sculpture depicting two human heads sharing a snake body

Yang Wu Kingdom of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960)

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Hubei Provincial Museum

Golden accessory of a Buddhist deity with snakes

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

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Palace Museum

Snake from the Twelve Zodiac Album

Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

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Erlitou Site Museum of the Xia Capital

Pottery item with a hollow circular base and three coiled snakes sculpted on its surface

Xia Dynasty (c.21st century-16th century BC)

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Capital Museum

Bronze sword blade and its bronze scabbard adorned with openwork snake motifs

Early Western Zhou Dynasty (c.11th century-771 BC)

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Shanxi Museum

Bronze drum base in the design of three coiled snakes

Warring States Period (475-221 BC)

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Confucius Museum

Gold ornaments with coiled snake motifs

Warring States Period (475-221 BC)

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Yunnan Provincial Museum

Bronze figurine with snake motifs on the chest

Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24)

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Henan Museum

Twin-snake brick

Eastern Wei Dynasty (534-550)

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Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum

Ancient silk painting depicting Fuxi and Nüwa with intertwined snake tails

Tang Dynasty (618-907)

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Jincheng Yuhuang Temple Painted Sculpture and Mural Museum

The personified sculpture of the Wings mansion

Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)

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