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Related content for the gallery "Room 33: China, India, South Asia and Southeast Asia"
Related Childrens tour
Animals
Badges
Games
Stories from Bengal
Year of the Dragon
Related galleries
Room 33a: Amaravati
Room 33b: Chinese jade
Related highlight objects
Agate belt set
Archaistic jade gui (ritual sceptre)
Archaistic jade ring
Bamboo tally
Bimaran Reliquary
Blue-and-white brushrest
Blue-and-white porcelain fish dish
Blue-and-white porcelain jug
Brass Tantric yantra
Bronze bell with bull finial
Bronze belt hook
Bronze bull head
Bronze cast coin
Bronze coin of Satakarni
Bronze coin-shaped charm
Bronze Daguan tongbao coin
Bronze ding (ritual food vessel)
Bronze dui inlaid with gold and silver
Bronze figure of a Bon deity, perhaps ghsa-lha'od-dkar
Bronze figure of a tirthankara
Bronze figure of Buddha Vairocana
Bronze figure of Maitreya
Bronze figure of Milarepa
Bronze figure of Nataraja
Bronze figure of the seated Buddha
Bronze figure of the walking Buddha
Bronze figures of Shiva and Parvati
Bronze gui (ritual food vessel)
Bronze hu (ritual wine vessels)
Bronze knife coin inlaid with gold
Bronze leaping feline
Bronze lotus mandala, with silver and copper inlay
Bronze ritual tripod and ewer
Bronze statue of the Buddha
Bronze statues of Vishnu with his consorts Bhu and Shri
Bronze you inlaid with gold and silver
Bronze zun (ritual wine vessel)
Carved wooden plaque
Ceramic Liubo players
Ceramic tomb model
Chenghua '100 children' bowl
Cizhou ware ceramic pillow
Clay jar with red-fired decoration
Cloisonné jar
Cloisonné mandala
Conch shell trumpet
Copper alloy figure of Tara
Copper and brass trumpet
Copper plate with inscription
Coral snuff bottle
Daoist shrine
Dark grey schist head from a statue of the Buddha
Ding ware vase
Doucai jar
Doucai vase
Dry lacquer sculpture of the Buddha
Earthenware model of a cart with bullock and human figures
Earthenware tile with a monster mask
Enamelled vase
Fahua vase
Famille rose butterfly bowl
Figure of Narasimha
Garuda in anjalimudra
Gilded bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara
Gilded bronze figure of Tara
Gilded bronze figure of Vajrasattva
Gilded comb top
Gilt bronze and silver figure of the enshrined Buddha
Gilt bronze figure of Padma Sambhava
Gilt bronze figure of Shiva
Gilt bronze mandala
Gilt-bronze figure of Padmapani
Gilt-bronze figure of Shakyamuni
Glass snuff bottle, made by Liu Shou-ben
Glazed pottery pond with figures
Glazed stoneware jar
Gold amulet containing relics
Gold dagger handle
Gold dinara coin of Kumaragupta I
Gold garment plaque
Gold Ramatanka charm
Gold solidus of Justinian I
Granite figure of a dvarapala
Granite figure of Dakshinamurti
Great Qing Treasure Certificate
Green ware vase
Grey schist relief panel of figures venerating a stupa
Grey schist relief panel showing the maha-pari-nirvana
Group of sancai ceramic tomb figures
Guan ware vase
Hanging bronze lamp shaped like a peacock
Hsun-ok
Huangdao ware dish
Inscribed stele with the yakshi Ambika
Iron sword in a lacquered scabbard with carved wood fittings
Ivory bodhisattva with attendants in a wooden shrine
Ivory figure of Vishnu on a naga throne
Ivory relief of Rama and Lakshmana
Ivory snuff bottle, a foshou citrus fruit
Ivory snuff equipment
Jade bi
Jade cicada
Jade cong
Jade cup of Ulugh Beg
Jade dish
Jade eye plaques
Jade face
Jade ge
Jade hair ornament
Jade mountain
Jade ornament
Jade phoenix ornament
Jade plaques
Jade reaping knife
Jade rhyton
Jain yantra
Jizhou tea bowl
Jun ware jar
Lacquer cup
Lacquer dish
Lacquer snuff bottle
Lacquered box
Large underglaze-painted jar
Limestone relief panel showing the conversion of Sundarananda
Linga and yoni
Longquan ware vase with Daoist immortals
Mani stone
Marble pillar from a Jain temple
Marble relief figure of Sarasvati
Marble statue of a tirthankara
Painted clay and wood figure of a horse
Painted clay figure of Sarvabuddhadakini
Pewter box with porcelain tea caddies
Pilaster from a tomb
Pillar edict of Emperor Asoka
Porcelain bowl with Xiwangmu
Porcelain Ding ware bowl
Porcelain figure of a god
Porcelain 'monk's cap' ewer
Porcelain phoenix-headed ewer
Porcelain rhyton (drinking horn)
Porcelain seal-paste box
Portable ivory balance with brass pan and weight
Portable shrine
Pottery amphora
Pottery jar with dragon handles
Prayer wheel
Qingbai wine ewer and basin
Red earthenware bowl
Red sandstone figure of a tirthankara
Red sandstone pillar capital
Red sandstone railing pillar
Relief sandstone panel depicting the Saptamatrika
Relief sculpture of Varaha with Bhu and Gadadevi
Rhinoceros horn cup
Ring stone with goddesses
Rock-crystal seal of king Avarighsa
Roof tile figure of the Immortal Han Xiangzi
Ru ware cup-stand
Sandstone figure of Chamunda
Sandstone figure of Surya
Sandstone figure of the Buddha
Sandstone figure of the seated Buddha
Sandstone fragment of a doorjamb
Sandstone miniature Hindu temple
Sandstone stele depicting Matsya
Sandstone stele of Lakulisha
Sandstone stele with a figure of Harihara
Sandstone stele with a figure of Vishnu
Schist figure of a matrika (mother goddess)
Schist head of the fasting Buddha
Schist relief panel depicting the division of the Buddha's relics
Schist relief panel with a scene of the eve of Siddhartha's departure
Schist sculpture of a four-faced linga
Sculpted panel depicting Vishnu Trivikrama
Sculpture of Buddha with kneeling Maitreya
Seated grey schist figure of Hariti with children
Silver 1 tical or baht of Ang Duong
Silver 5 baht
Silver bar ingot
Silver ingot
Standing figure of a bodhisattva
Steatite seals from the Indus Valley
Stela with a female figure
Stemcup with sea creatures
Stone figure of a bodhisattva
Stone figure of Brahma
Stone figure of Mamaki
Stone figure of the war-god Skanda
Stone palette, or toilet tray
Stone relief of Umamaheshvara
Stone relief of Vajrasattva
Stone sculpture of Durga Mahishasuramardini
Stone sculpture of Shakti-Ganesha
Stone statue of Shiva as Lingodbhava
Stone stele with the dharmapala Mahakala
Stoneware ewer in the shape of a mermaid
Stoneware figure of Budai ('Laughing Buddha')
Stoneware luohan
Stucco head of a monk
Terracotta female head
Terracotta figurine
Terracotta head of a bodhisattva
Terracotta tile with a musician
Terracotta tile with crouching figures
The Kulu vase
Three terracotta figures of mother goddesses
Wedding charm in the form of a silver coin and ingot
Wood and ivory chest
Wooden guardian figure
Wooden panel with a musician
Yaozhou ceramic box
Yue ware water dropper
Related research projects
A Hundred Years of Dunhuang, 1907-2007’
Catalogue of the collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Part 2)
Chairman Mao badges
Chinese painting
Dunhuang textiles in the UK
Qing ceramics
The archaeology of ritual in Gupta India: Udayagiri and the establishment of the gods
The Indian temple: production, place and patronage
Tribal transitions: cultural change in Arunachal Pradesh
Related themes
Leaders and rulers
Money
Time
Writing
Related tours
Chinese jade
Chinese New Year
Faith
Mountains and water: Chinese landscape painting
The Art of Peace: Paintings by the poet Rabindranath Tagore
The 'Caves of the Thousand Buddhas'
Vietnam: Behind the Lines
Related world cultures
Ancient and Early Medieval South Asia
Ancient China
Imperial China
Mughal India
Tibetan culture
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