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Yaozhou ceramic box
In the tenth century, the Huangbaozhen kilns in Yaozhou (now…
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Brass cash coin of the Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion (1850-64) was a serious attempt to ous…
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Dali yuanbao coin
The Chinese characters on this coin read 'Dali yuan bao', ar…
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Fragments of a stone mould and bronze knife money
During the fourth and third centuries BC, a distinctive type…
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The David Vases
They were made for the altar of a Daoist temple and their im…
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Moon flask
White-crested waves, unrestrained by a border are painted ar…
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Shadow puppet
Two servants carry an elegantly dressed clown on a pole as t…
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Shadow puppets
One of the popular tales told with shadow puppets in China i…
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A Christian figure, ink and colours on silk (fragment)
Christianity reached ninth-century China in the form of Nest…
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Avalokiteshvara, a colour woodblock print
This print was found in Cave 17 at Mogao together with many …
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Avalokiteshvara as Guide of Souls, ink and colours on silk
The figure of the Buddha Amitabha in the headdress clearly i…
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Avalokiteshvara as Saviour from Perils, ink and colours on silk
Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, is show in…
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Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on a hemp cloth banner
Hemp, coarser than silk, was cheaper and it is thus likely t…
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Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on a paper banner
This is one of many examples from Mogao of a temple flag or …
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Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on silk
The central figure of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of …
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Blue-and-white brushrest
Emperor Zhengde was still a child when he ascended the thron…
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Blue-and-white porcelain fish dish
Porcelain decorated with underglaze blue (commonly known as …
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Blue-and-white porcelain jug
Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration (commonly known as…
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Bodhisattva as Guide of Souls, ink and colours on a silk banner
The painting is inscribed with the characters yinlu pu or 'B…
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Bodhisattva with a glass beaker, ink and colours on a silk banner
The figure of a bodhisattva is painted on a narrow piece o…
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Bodhisattva with a glass bowl, ink and colours on a silk banner
This is one of the most beautifully executed banners from Mo…
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Bodhisattva with censer, ink and colours on a silk banner
This is the painted area of a banner, which has now lost its…
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Bronze hu (ritual wine vessels)
These hu were made at the Jin State Foundry in Houma, Shanxi…
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Bronze zun (ritual wine vessel)
This bronze ritual wine vessel ( zun ) takes the form of a p…
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Chenghua '100 children' bowl
The Chenghua emperor (reigned AD 1465-87) loved small, perfe…
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Daoist shrine
Shrine models like this were produced in China during the Yu…
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Ding family of the Jinchang pavillion, A basket of flowers, a colour woodblock print
The inscription on this print identifies the Ding family as …
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Ding Liangxian, Arbutus and Grasshopper, a colour woodblock print
This print was originally produced by members of the Ding fa…
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Ding Liangxian, Flowers and Incense, a colour woodblock print
This print was originally produced by members of the Ding fa…
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Ding ware vase
Connoisseurs include Ding wares among the 'five great wares'…
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Doucai jar
This doucai jar is decorated with a blue, three-clawed drago…
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Doucai vase
The Chinese term doucai means 'joined colours' or 'contrasti…
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Earthenware tile with a monster mask
Most of the buildings in ancient China were made of wood, an…
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Eight album leaves dedicated to Zhou Liangging, paintings in ink and colour on paper
This album was assembled by Zhou Lianggong (1612-1672), an o…
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Embroidered tangka of the dharmapala Yama
The fierce and bull-headed Yama stands on his buffalo mount,…
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Fahua vase
The term fahua refers to Chinese wares with bold decoration …
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Famille rose butterfly bowl
Accordingly to Chinese tradition, butterflies are an auspici…
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Famille rose teacup and saucer
The design on this teacup and saucer is composed of a crowne…
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Four luohans and attendants, a hanging scroll painting
This scroll may have belonged to a series of scrolls which d…
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Four manifestations of Avalokiteshvara, with Samantabhadra and Manjushri, a painting on silk
The four manifestations of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva…
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Glass snuff bottle, made by Liu Shou-ben
Snuff bottles painted on the inside are particularly admired…
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Glazed stoneware jar
This stoneware jar may have been produced in Zhejiang provin…
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Green ware vase
The many kilns around Longquan city began production in the …
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Chinese Tang tomb figures
The group comprises two fabulous beasts (one with a human fa…
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Hu Zhengyan, Shizhuzhai shuhua pu ('A Manual of Calligraphy and Painting from the Ten Bamboo Studio'), a
This is the first Chinese woodblock books printed in colour.…
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Huangdao ware dish
This dish was probably made at Lushan in Henan province. It …
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Illustration to the Fumu enzhong jing, ink and colours on silk
The upper part of the painting is occupied by a Buddha group…
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Illustration to the Vimalakirtinirdesha Sutra, ink and colours on silk
Vimalakirti, the hero of the Vimalakirtinirdesha sutra , is …
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Illustrations to the Sutra of the Ten Kings, a painting on paper roll
The 'Ten Kings of Hell' come from an apocryphal sutra date…
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Jade reaping knife
This massive ritual implement is made in the shape of a harv…
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Jiang Song (attributed to), Taking a lute to visit a friend, a hanging scroll painting in ink and slight colour on silk
A scholar and his servant who carries his lute ( qin ) are s…
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Jizhou tea bowl
Jizhou wares were produced at a small number of kilns, named…
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Jun ware jar
Jun wares are counted among the 'five great wares' of China,…
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Kantei, Landscapes, a pair of hanging scroll paintings
In the right-hand image we see a multi-storeyed building in …
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Kshitigarbha as Lord of the Six Ways, ink and colours on silk
The bodhisattva Kshitigarbha is shown wearing a hood and s…
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Kshitigarbha, ink and colours on a silk banner
This is one of many examples from Mogao of a painted banner …
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Kshitigarbha with the Ten Kings of Hell, ink and colours on silk
This painting shows in detail the Chinese Buddhist concept o…
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Lacquer dish
Although it was known earlier, carved lacquer with a pictori…
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Large underglaze-painted jar
Though Chinese potters developed underglaze red decoration d…
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Liu Sahe and scenes from the story of the miraculous image of Mount Yugu, ink and colours on silk (fragment)
This is a fragment of a much larger painting (another fragme…
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Lokapala, ink and colours on silk (fragment)
This huge fragment - now mounted as a hanging scroll - was o…
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Manjushri visiting Vimalakirti, ink and colours on paper
This painting shows Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom, …
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Monk seated in meditation, ink and colours on paper
The cave where the paintings were found sealed up at Mogao, …
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Painted and coloured paper flowers
These six paper flowers must be among the earliest examples …
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Painted silk headpiece from a banner
This square of silk would have been folded diagonally to for…
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Pair of fragments of silk
These two fragments might once have formed part of a headpie…
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Pair of stone guardian figures
These stone guardian figures would have been part of a group…
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Paradise of Amitabha, ink and colours on silk
Pure Land sutras , which describe the Paradises of various B…
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