Asian Art

Owl-shaped zun, Tomb of Lady Fu Hao, c. 1200 BCE, Shang dynasty.

Name banner of Lady Dai, Mawangdui Tomb 1, c. 168 BCE, Han dynasty.

Pagoda, Horyuji, 601-607, Asuka period.

Gu Kaizhi, Admonitions of a Court Instructress, 6th-8th century, Six Dynasties period.

Maitreya (pensive bodhisattva), 7th century, Silla kingdom.

Seokguram caves (Stone Buddha Temple), late 8th century, Silla dynasty.

Byodo-in, Uji, 1053, Heian period.

Guo Xi, Early Spring, 1072, Northern Song dynasty.

“The Oak Tree (3),” from Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari emaki), 12th century, Heian period.

Blue-and-white plate with rock, fruit, and flowers, Jingdezhen, mid-fourteenth century, Yuan dynasty.

Sesshu Toyo, Splashed Ink, 1495, Muromachi period.

Attributed to Sen no Rikyu, Tai’an teahouse, Myokian Temple, late 16th century, Muromachi period.Sesshu Toyo, Splashed Ink, 1495, Muromachi period.

Ogata Korin, Irises, early 18th century, Edo period

Hu Zhengyuan, A Manual of Calligraphy and Painting from the Ten Bamboo Studio, 1619-1633, Ming dynasty.

Bada Shanren, Fish and Rocks, mid to late-17th century, Qing dynasty.

Jeong Seon, True View of the Diamond Mountains, 1734, Joseon dynasty.

Giuseppe Castiglione, One Hundred Horses, 1728, Qing dynasty.

Hokusai Katsushika, Great Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji, c. 1830s, Edo period.

Yi Eungrok, Scholar’s Accouterments (chaekgeori), 19th century, Joseon dynasty.

Xu Bing, Square Word Calligraphy Classroom, 1994-1996.