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The opening hours for the display of Ancient Chinese Art in the Virginia Museum’s Artmobile on the Rappahannock Library grounds and Exhibition of work of the Art Classes of RCHS in the library will be Sunday May 2, from 2 until 5 p. m. The Virginia Museum’s Artmobile may not offer any honest-to-goodness,fire-breath- est-to-goodness,fire-breathing monsters, but it does have dragons. In fact, its exhibitions of 35 Chinese works of art is called 'Dragons and Dynasties.* Some of these dragons--cast on the sides of bronze sacrificial vessels--date 3,500 years into ancient Chinese history. This means they served symbolic purposes at least 10 centuries before the birth of the Chinese philosopher Confucius.
Each of these vessels, like all the pieces of art in the display, is dated by the royal house which ruled China when it was made. That, explained a member of the Museum Staf^ is how the exhibition received its name, for Chinese art is identified and listed by dynasties. j
For example, one Imperial house, the Shang, is known for bronze vessels of a certain type; the Sung Dynasty is l famed for, among other things I painted scrolls which were created during the years it held power. Possibly the earliest dragon in the exhibition! is cast on a Yu, or ceremonial vessel, which dates from the Shang Dynasty. Ancient Chinese placed it in a tomt where it was buried for about 3000 years. Action of the earth over the centuries has turned its bronze a mellow olive green. Two of its sides show the mask of an ancient bodiless
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