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Related content for the world culture "Imperial China"
Related galleries
Room 33: China, India, South Asia and Southeast Asia
Room 33b: Chinese jade
Related highlight objects
A Christian figure, ink and colours on silk (fragment)
Agate belt set
Archaistic jade gui (ritual sceptre)
Archaistic jade ring
Avalokiteshvara as Guide of Souls, ink and colours on silk
Avalokiteshvara as Saviour from Perils, ink and colours on silk
Avalokiteshvara, a colour woodblock print
Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on a hemp cloth banner
Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on a paper banner
Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on silk
Bamboo tally
Blue-and-white brushrest
Blue-and-white porcelain fish dish
Blue-and-white porcelain jug
Bodhisattva as Guide of Souls, ink and colours on a silk banner
Bodhisattva with a glass beaker, ink and colours on a silk banner
Bodhisattva with a glass bowl, ink and colours on a silk banner
Bodhisattva with censer, ink and colours on a silk banner
Brass cash coin of the Taiping Rebellion
Bronze banliang coin
Bronze belt hook
Bronze coin-shaped charm
Bronze Hongwu tongbao coin
Bronze Kaiyuan tongbao coin
Bronze you inlaid with gold and silver
Ceramic Liubo players
Ceramic tomb model
Chen Shun, Zhoujintang ('Hall of Daytime Elegance'), followed by the Zhoujintang ji ('Record of
Chenghua '100 children' bowl
Chinese blue and white porcelain ewer
Chinese incense burner
Chinese porcelain dish showing immortals
Chinese shadow puppets
Cizhou ware ceramic pillow
Cloisonné jar
Cloisonné mandala
Coin sword
Coin tree of brass Guangxu zhongbao coins
Coral snuff bottle
Dali yuanbao coin
Daoist shrine
Ding family of the Jinchang pavillion, A basket of flowers, a colour woodblock print
Ding Liangxian, Arbutus and Grasshopper, a colour woodblock print
Ding Liangxian, Flowers and Incense, a colour woodblock print
Ding Yunpeng, The God of Literature, a hanging scroll painting
Doucai jar
Doucai vase
Dragon tiles
Earthenware model of a cart with bullock and human figures
Earthenware tile with a monster mask
Eight album leaves dedicated to Zhou Liangging, paintings in ink and colour on paper
Enamelled vase
Fahua vase
Famille rose butterfly bowl
Famille rose teacup and saucer
Four luohans and attendants, a hanging scroll painting
Four manifestations of Avalokiteshvara, with Samantabhadra and Manjushri, a painting on silk
Gao Fenghan, The Ancient Pine of Dongmou, a fan painting
Gilded comb top
Gilt bronze mandala
Gilt-bronze figure of Padmapani
Gilt-bronze figure of Shakyamuni
Glazed pottery pond with figures
Glazed stoneware jar
Gold garment plaque
Great Ming Circulating Treasure Note
Great Qing Treasure Certificate
Group of sancai ceramic tomb figures
Heavenly Feet Society (Anti-Footbinding League) badge
Illustration to the Fumu enzhong jing, ink and colours on silk
Illustration to the Vimalakirtinirdesha Sutra, ink and colours on silk
Illustrations to the Sutra of the Ten Kings, a painting on paper roll
Iron sword in a lacquered scabbard with carved wood fittings
Ivory figure of Chi She
Ivory figure of Xiwangmu
Ivory snuff bottle, a foshou citrus fruit
Ivory snuff equipment
Jade bi
Jade brush pot
Jade cicada
Jade cicadas
Jade demon mask
Jade dish
Jade eye plaques
Jade figure of a crouching animal
Jade figure of a horse
Jade hair ornament
Jade headdress ornament
Jade mountain
Jade ornament in the shape of a flying deity
Jade pendant in the shape of a dragon
Jade phoenix ornament
Jade plaques
Jade rhyton
Jiang Song (attributed to), Taking a lute to visit a friend, a hanging scroll painting in ink and slight colour on silk
Kshitigarbha as Lord of the Six Ways, ink and colours on silk
Kshitigarbha with the Ten Kings of Hell, ink and colours on silk
Kshitigarbha, ink and colours on a silk banner
Lacquer cup
Lacquer dish
Lacquer snuff bottle
Lacquered box
Large underglaze-painted jar
Leng Mei, Portrait of a Lady, a hanging scroll painting
Liu Sahe and scenes from the story of the miraculous image of Mount Yugu, ink and colours on silk (fragment)
Lobed jade cup
Lokapala, ink and colours on silk (fragment)
Longquan ware vase with Daoist immortals
Manjushri visiting Vimalakirti, ink and colours on paper
Marble figure of the Buddha Amitabha
Model food dishes for the afterlife
Model theatre
Monk seated in meditation, ink and colours on paper
Moon-shaped flask with birds
Painted and coloured paper flowers
Painted clay and wood figure of a horse
Painted silk headpiece from a banner
Pair of stone guardian figures
Paradise of Amitabha, ink and colours on silk
Paradise of Bhaishajyaguru, ink and colours on silk
Paradise of Bhaishajyaguru, ink and colours on silk
Paradise of Maitreya, ink and colours on silk
Paradise of Shakyamuni, with illustrations of episodes from the Baoen Sutra, ink and colours on silk
Patchwork of silk, probably a kasaya
Pewter box with porcelain tea caddies
Pilaster from a tomb
Porcelain bowl with armorial-style decoration
Porcelain bowl with Xiwangmu
Porcelain figure of a god
Porcelain flask
Porcelain 'monk's cap' ewer
Porcelain phoenix-headed ewer
Porcelain rhyton (drinking horn)
Portable ivory balance with brass pan and weight
Pottery jar with dragon handles
Qian Xuan, Young nobleman on horseback, a handscroll painting
Representations of Famous Buddhist Images, ink and colours on silk (fragments)
Rhinoceros horn cup
Roof tile figure of the Immortal Han Xiangzi
Samantabhadra and Manjushri, ink and colours on silk
Samantabhadra, ink and colours on a silk banner
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha, ink and colours on a silk banner
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha, ink and colours on silk
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha, ink and colours on silk
Shakyamuni preaching on the Vulture Peak, silk embroidery on hemp cloth
Silk altar valance
Silk embroidery panel with flowers and ducks
Silver coin
Silver dollar note issued by the Hu-peh Government Mint
Sketches for illustrations to the Vimalakirtinirdesha Sutra, ink and colours on paper
Stemcup with sea creatures
Stencil for a five-figure Buddha group, painting on paper
Stone figure of a bodhisattva
Stone lintel
Stoneware ewer in the shape of a mermaid
Stoneware figure of Budai ('Laughing Buddha')
Stoneware luohan
Talisman of the Pole Star, ink and colours on paper
Tejaprabha Buddha and the Five Planets, ink and colours on silk
The Admonitions Scroll
The Nymph of the Luo River, a handscroll painting
The thirteenth arhat, Ingada, a hanging scroll painting
Thousand-armed, thousand-eyed Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on silk
Thousand-armed, Thousand-eyed Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on silk
Travelling monk, ink and colours on paper
Two standing Avalokiteshvara, ink and colour on silk
Vaishravana riding across the waters, a painting on silk
Vaishravana with attendants, a woodblock print on paper
Vajrapani, ink and colours on a silk banner
Vajrapani, ink and colours on a silk banner
Vajrapani, ink and colours on silk
Virupaksha, Guardian of the West, ink and colours on a silk banner
Water-Moon Guanyin, ink and colours on paper
Water-Moon Guanyin, ink and colours on paper
Wen Zhengming, Wintry Trees, a hanging scroll painting
Wooden figure of Avalokiteshvara
Wuzhu coin issued by Emperor Xuandi
Xie Chufang, Fascination of Nature, a handscroll painting
Yaozhou ceramic box
Yue ware water dropper
Related research projects
A Hundred Years of Dunhuang, 1907-2007’
Chinese painting
Dunhuang textiles in the UK
Qing ceramics
Related themes
Introduction to the Leaders and rulers theme
Leaders and rulers
Money
Related tours
Chinese jade
Chinese New Year
Mountains and water: Chinese landscape painting
The 'Caves of the Thousand Buddhas'
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