Art and Cultural Heritage · Sanxingdui Bronzes

Sanxingdui · Tree and Birds

Birds perch on the slender branches of a bronze tree against an open sky. Elsewhere, small figures cross a bridge within an immense bronze eye.

Tree Against the Sky

A bronze tree rises from the earth, birds perched along its slender branches.

A bird on the branch faces the open sky.

Colossal bronze eyes form gateways; a figure crosses a small bridge into shadow.

Fragments of bronze wings form islands, with stone steps built along the water.