Chinese Art Midterm Study Guide

Painted pottery jar

Majiayao culture

3rd millennium BCE

Standing Figure

Sanxingdui Pit (No. 2), Sichuan Province

1600-1046 BCE

Large jade cong

Liangzhu culture

late 3rd millennium BCE

Pouring cup / jue / bronze tripod vessel

Yanshi, Henan Province

Erlitou Culture (19th-16th century BCE)

Kneeling Tiger-Human made of marble

Anyang, Henan Province

Late Shang (14th-11th c. BCE)

Bronze Fangding square caldron with face décor and dragon-shaped feet

Tomb of Fu Hao, Anyang, Henan Province,

Late Shang Dynasty (13th century BCE)

Bronze ritual vessel Hu-gui

Plain of Zhou, Shaanxi Province

Late Western Zhou

Chime bells (Bianzhong)

Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zheng, Hubei Province

the Warring States period, 433 bce /Late 5th c. bce

Terracotta army,

Tomb of the First Emperor, Shaanxi Province

Qin dynasty

Human and animal figurines

Yangling Mausoleum (Shaanxi)

Mid-2nd c. BCE

Funeral Banner of Lady Dai

Mawangdui Tomb 1, Hunan Province

Western Han Dynasty, 168 BCE

Boshanlu incense burner

Tomb of Liu Sheng, Mancheng County, Hebei

Western Han dynasty, 113 BC

Kizil, Kucha (Xinjiang)

Cave 38

4th-6th centuries CE

Tiles with the relief depiction of Queen Mother of the West

Sichuan

Han Dynasty, 1st-2nd century CE

West wall

Wu Liang Shrine, Shandong

Eastern Han Dynasty, 2nd century CE

East wall

Wu Liang Shrine, Shandong

Eastern Han Dynasty, 2nd century CE

Wang Xizhi

Lanting Orchid Pavilion Gathering,

Jin dynasty, 353 CE.

Gu Kaizhi (ca. 344-406), attributed,

the Admonitions of the Court Instructress

Ca. 4 th CE., Jin dynasty.

Handscroll, ink and colors on silk

Eminent women, lacquer-painted screen,

Tomb of Sima Jinlong, Shanxi Province

c. 484 CE

Colossal Buddha

Yungang Cave 20, Datong, Shanxi

Northern Wei Dynasty, ca. 5th century CE

Painted tomb mural of the Queen Mother of the West

West slope of the front-chamber ceiling, Tomb No. 5 at Dingjiazha Jiuquan, Gansu Province

5th-6th c. CE

Cave 428, Mogao Caves

Dunhuang, Gansu, China

Northern Zhou dynasty, mid-late 6th C.

Cave 285, Mogao Caves

Dunhuang, Gansu, China

Western Wei Dynasty, second quarter of 6th C

mural of a gate official,

tomb of Lou Rui. Shanxi

6th c

Procession of the Empress,

on the entrance wall of the Central Binyang Cave, Longmen, Henan Province Northern Wei dynasty, 6th c.

Tomb of Li Xian (Prince Zhanghuai),

Shaanxi,

Tang dynasty, 7th century

Monk Huaisu,

Autobiographical Essay (in wild cursive),

777

Eastern Hall,

Foguang Temple, Shanxi,

857 CE

The Sage Mother Hall,

Northern Song dynasty (960–1127).

Shanxi