
Haniwa
This is the figure of a warrior, dressed in a robe and wearing…

The Musashi Plain (Mushashino: Tale of Ise)
These three prints depict an episode from the Tale of Ise (Ise…

Head of Buddha
From the earliest centuries of our era, the region of Amaravati…

Nagaraja "Serpent King"
The Nagaraja, or "Serpent King", is a traditional figure in the…

The Surrender of Kandahar
This miniature depicts the surrender of Persian troops- seen…

Young woman listening to music
This miniature in the Guler style is a graceful, sensitive evocation…

The Tirthankara Rishabanatha
This sculpted sandstone effigy represents Rishabanatha (or Adinatha),…

Buddha Torso
This torso of Buddha, sculpted in the characteristic pink sandstone…

Female bust backed by foliage
In India, since the most ancient times, woman has been the object…

Huqqa (water pipe) base
This bidri water pipe (huqqa) base has a floral decoration of…

Silla Crown
Made from thin sheets of gilded metal, cut and smoothed using…

Panga sayu sang Meditating Bodhisattva
This late 6th century gilt bronze bodhisattva is a masterpiece…

1000-armed Avalokiteshvara, chonsu kwanum posal
This impressive cast iron piece, complete with its original gilding,…

Teaching Buddha, making the gesture of preaching
The restrained, remarkably refined, and profoundly meditative…

Maebyong vase, celadon glaze
This large maebyong vase is the Korean version of the Chinese…

Eight-panel folding screen: genre scenes
This painted silk folding screen is signed Kim Hong-do (1745-1815?).…

Ten-panel folding screen: flowers and birds
The strikingly Hwajodo "flowers and birds" motif used by Yi Han-Ch’ol…

Portrait of the high-ranking dignitary, Cho Man-Yong
This work is a masterpiece of restraint, skillfully blending…

Mask
This mask is made out of wood and covered in light beige fabric…

Jar with dragon decoration
The decoration here depicts a dragon lost in the clouds-a theme…

cong (jade tube)
The square outer section of this piece encloses an empty cylinder.…

Camondo zun (wine vessel)
Despite its monumental appearance, this standing elephant with…

liding (sacrificial vase)
This liding funerary recipient is composed of three juxtaposed…

Deer-shaped drum mounting
This reclining deer with its legs folded along its body, oval-shaped…

Silver Casket, dated 1024
Esthetically, this cubical casket mounted on a low, flared base…

Northern celadon ewer
This ewer, with its globe-shaped belly and high, fluted neck,…

Fluted bowl
This ewer, with its globe-shaped belly and high, fluted neck,…

meiping Vase
This vase offers an interesting and rare example of Yuan ceramics.…

Wardrobe
Originally, this wardrobe was one of a pair, and was topped by…

Small jade cup
This extremely important piece, a circular cup mounted on a small,…

Thousand Flowers Vase
The reign of Qianlong witnessed a gradual lessening of formal…

Pack-camel and camel driver
The sculptor’s treatment of the fur of this Bactriane camel…

hu Wine Vase
This slender, curved, pear-shaped bottle is made of gilded bronze.…

The Mausoleum of the first Emperor, Qin shihuang
The significance of this site where, sixty years later, a terracotta…

Dragon plaque
This large green nephrite plaque represents a dragon with its…

Lady with chignon mingqi (tomb figure)
This court lady belongs to a stylistic phase characteristic of…

Standing horse mingqi (tomb figure)
This animal, with its body solidly planted on sturdy legs and…

Statue of the luohan Tamrabhadra
The term luohan (Sanskrit: arhat) describes the Buddhas original…

Bamboo leaves
This vertical scroll painting depicts the top of a clump of bamboo.…

Jingting Mountains in autumn
This scroll, which faithfully adopts the traditional Chinese…