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The moustache splits into two carved sweeps and the \u003cstrong\u003ebeard\u003c\/strong\u003e falls in long separated strands that run past the bottom edge of the plate — the one place the carving is allowed to break the rectangle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbove sits the general’s \u003cstrong\u003ecrown\u003c\/strong\u003e, built up in stepped tiers with a raised panel at the front, a studded band running the brow line, and side wings folding back behind the temples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo \u003cstrong\u003edragons\u003c\/strong\u003e climb the sides, scaled bodies worked into the margins with a horned head surfacing at the upper corner. \u003cstrong\u003eCloud spirals\u003c\/strong\u003e fill the corners and a \u003cstrong\u003ebeaded band\u003c\/strong\u003e closes the lower edge, so the outline is set by the carving instead of by a ruled frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe finish does the work: satin on the face and beard, bright polish on the crown, the scales and the clouds. Set against all that movement, the expression stays completely still.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuan Yu was a general of the Later Han who was deified for keeping his word when it cost him everything. 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