Asian Art Final

Sulawesi warty pig approx.

43,900 years old

Indonesia

hematite/ochre on rock

approx. 4' wide

at the Leang Tedongnge cave

"Fire-flame"

cooking vessel

c. 2500 BCE

Jōmon period

(c. 10,500-300 BCE)

earthenware with burn marks

24" high

Cleveland Museum

bronze axe-head (yue)

tomb of Fu Hao

c. 1200 BCE

Shang dynasty

Anyang, China

10” high

Uushgin Uver Deer Stone #15

east-facing

circa 1000 BCE

approx. 6' tall

Hövsköl Aimag, Mongoli

after Gu Kaizhi (c. 400)

Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies

handscroll copy circa 550

10" high x 11.3' long

Ngọc Lũ drum 600 BCE to 300 CE bronze

Đông Sơn culture

31" wide

x 25" high

Vietnam National Museum

of History

Padmapāṇi ("Lotus Holder")

aka. Avalokiteśvara

Ajanta Cave 1

c. 500

mineral pigments on plaster

Ajanta caves, Maharashtra, India

Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra (aka.the Diamond Sutra)

868

woodblock ink on paper

10" high

Dunhuang manuscript

British Library

Vajra-Realm and Garbha-Realm Esoteric Buddhist Painted Maṇḍalas

c. 899

pigment on silk

6' x 5' each

Heian Period (794 to 893; capital in Kyoto)

Tō-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan

Guo Xi

Early Spring

Song dynasty

1072

ink on silk

5’2’’ high x 43” wide

National Palace Museum, Taipei

Female figure "Dancing Girl"

Indus Valley Civilization

circa 2000 BCE

bronze (lost wax)

approx. 4" tall

excavated at Mohenjo Daro

National Museum, New Delhi

wine container (you 卣) "La Tigresse"

Shang Dynasty (1600 to 1046)

circa 1100 to 1050 BCE

bronze

14" high x 9.5" wide

Musée Cernuschi, Paris

Manunggul Secondary Burial Jar

890 to 710 BCE

26" high

earthenware

excavated Palawan, Philippines

Nat'l Museum Philippines

dancing" Haniwa

circa 500

late Kofun period (Japan, 300 to 538)

approx. 2' tall

earthenware

Excavated Saitama Prefecture

Tokyo Nat'l Museum

Pensive Bodhisattva

Silla kingdom (57 BCE to 935 CE)

circa 600s

gilt bronze

37" high

Seoul Nat'l Museum

Harihara, combination of Viśnu and Śiva

circa 700

Kingdom of Funan ("Phnom," now Cambodia), Phnom Da

sandstone

5'8" high

Musée Guimet

Ma Yuan (circa 1160 to 1225);

inscriptions by Empress Yang (1162 to 1233)

from the album Twelve Views of Water

Southern Song dynasty (1127 to 1279)

ink and color on silk

10.5" high x 16" wide

Palace Museum, Beijing

attributed to Nepalese artist Anige (1245 to 1306)

Green Tārā

c. 1260s

Yuan dynasty (1271 to 1368)

Thangka, pigments, and ink on cotton

21" x 17"

Cleveland Museum of Art

Abu al-Hasan (1589 to 1630)

Emperor Jahangir Embraces Shah Abbas

St. Petersburg Album

circa 1618

Mughal dynasty (1526 to 1857)

gouache, gold, and ink on paper

9.3" x 6"

National Museum of Asian Art

The Qianlong Emperor as Mañjuśrī, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom
c. 1750 Qing dynasty ()

hanging scroll,

ink and pigment on silk

44" x 25"
National Museum of Asian Art

Lee Ufan (b. 1936, Korea)

From Line

1979

glue and mineral pigment on canvas

64" x 51"

Dou Wan's

jade burial suit

Han Dynasty (206 BCE to 220 CE)

circa 150 BCE

jade and gold

5' 8" long

excavated M2 Mancheng, Hebei, 1968 Hebei Provincial Museum, Northern China

Lakśmīndralokiteśvara?

State of Champa (Southern Vietnam, circa 200 to 1832)

from Đồng Dương Buddhist temple (Quảng Nam)

circa 800 to 900

Bronze

45" tall

Đà Nẵng Museum of Cham Sculpture

relief sculpture of outrigger boat and stilted house

lower gallery, Candi Borobudur

completed 830 during the Śailendra Dynasty

volcanic rock (adesite and basalt)

Central Java, Indonesia

The Agusan Image (Vajralāsyā?)

Butuan period (circa 800s to 1521)

c. 1000

gold

7" high; 4.4 lb

discovered 1917, Mindanao, Philippines

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Śiva Naṭarāja (Lord of Dance)

circa 1000

Bronze

45" tall

Chola period (848 to 1279)

South India, , Tamil Nadu

Cleveland Museum of Art

Prajñapãramita ("Perfection of Wisdom") Bodhisattva

Singhasari period (1222 to 1292)

circa 1200s

Andesite stone

50" tall

Discovered in 1818 near Singhasari temple, East Java, Indonesia

National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta

tea turtle

part of tea set from underneath Famen Temple pagoda

Tang dynasty (618 to 907)

donated by Tang dynasty emperor Yizong

in 873

gilt silver

approx. 12" long

Famensi Museum, Shaanxi, China

Angkor Wat ("City of Temples")

first constructed as a Visnu temple by the Khmer Empire, c. 1150

converted into Buddhist site, c. 1200

large sandstone blocks

Siem Reap, Cambodia

Six Persimmons

painting by Fachang Muq a Song Dynasty monk-painter,

circa 1250

on paper, 15" high

Edo period (1603 to 1868) toko-no-ma display area in tea room named "Mittan"

designed circa 1620 by Kobori Enshü

Ryükö-in temple, Daitoku-ji monastery

Kyoto, Japan

interior of Shah Mosque

1629

Safavid dynasty (1501 to 1736),

during reign of Shah Abbas I (1571 to 1629)

ceramic tiles on brick architecture

Isfahān,

Iran