Asian Art Midterm

Sulawesi warty pig approx.

43,900 years old

Indonesia

hematite/ochre on rock

approx. 4' wide

at the Leang Tedongnge cave

Yangshao earthenware bowl

c. 4000 BCE

17.5" wide

Capital Museum, Beijing

"Fire-flame"

cooking vessel

c. 2500 BCE

Jōmon period

(c. 10,500-300 BCE)

earthenware with burn marks

24" high

Cleveland Museum

Uushgin Uver Deer Stone #15

east-facing

circa 1000 BCE

approx. 6' tall

Hövsköl Aimag, Mongolia

bronze axe-head (yue)

tomb of Fu Hao

c. 1200 BCE

Shang dynasty

Anyang, China

Female Figure with Dragon and Phoenix

State of Chu

circa 400 BCE

ink on silk

12" high x 9" wide

excavated 1949, Changsha, Hunan Hunan Provincial Museum

Ngọc Lũ drum 600 BCE to 300 CE bronze

Đông Sơn culture

31" wide

x 25" high

Vietnam National Museum

of History

painted silk banner

Tomb of Lady Dai

168 BCE

Han dynasty

6' 6" tall

ink and color on silk

Mawangdui Tomb 1, Changsha

tomb found in 1972

Hunan Provincial Museum

after Gu Kaizhi (c. 400)

Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies

handscroll copy circa 550

10" high x 11.3' long

Mahākāśyapa, one of the main disciples of the historical Buddha

Cave above the Great

Cave, Kizil caves

c. 425 CE

29" wide

pigments on stucco

mural painting

interior of Muyong Chong

("Tomb of the Dancers")

circa 400s

Goguryo period

Ji'lin, China

Padmapāṇi ("Lotus Holder")

aka. Avalokiteśvara

Ajanta Cave 1

c. 500

mineral pigments on plaster

Ajanta caves, Maharashtra, India

attributed to Yan Liben (circa 600 to 673)

Tang Emperor Taizong Receiving Tibetan Envoy

silk handscroll

20" high

MFA, Boston

attributed to Zhou Fang (730 to 800)

Court Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers

silk handscroll

18" x 69"

Liaoning Provincial Museum

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

Guan Xiu (832 to 912)

Arhats (detail)

Former Shu dynasty (907 to 925)

ink rubbing

46" high x 20" wide

Guo Xi

Early Spring

Song dynasty

1072

ink on silk

5’2’’ high x 43” wide

National Palace Museum, Taipei

Cong

Liangzhu culture

c. 3000 BCE

Nephrite

3.5" high x 7” wide

Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Hangzhou

seal

Mohenjo Daro

Indus Valley Civilization (c. 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE)

steatite/soapstone

approx. 4" wide

bronze drink vessel (hu)

Western Zhou dynasty (circa 1050 BCE to 771 BCE)

24" high

Asian Art Museum, SF

rubbing from copy of

Qín dynasty (221 to 206 BCE) stele

in small seal script

original script by Li Si

copy stele produced in 993

60" high

rubbing from relief of Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi

Jin dynasty (266 to 420)

bricks produced circa 400

36” high x 7’10” wide

Nanjing Museum

west wall, lower register, Mogao Cave #257

Ruru Jataka (previous life of the Buddha as a deer)

Northern Wei dynasty, 439 to 534

plaster and pigment on alluvial conglomerate rock

approx. 10" high

Dunhuang, Gansu, China