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Hide shield with velvet and silverwork, with a lion's mane pendant

Within the Christian empire of northern and central Ethiopia…
Pair of felt tent bags

Felt is a highly versatile fabric. It has been made and used…
Shoes collected by Hans Sloane

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose collection helped to foun…
Silk cape (lamd)

A series of panels are suspended from the main section of th…
A Christian figure, ink and colours on silk (fragment)

Christianity reached ninth-century China in the form of Nest…
Angaja (Ingada), a hanging scroll painting

The sixteen arhats (Japanese: rakan ) were disciples of Shak…
Avalokiteshvara as Guide of Souls, ink and colours on silk

The figure of the Buddha Amitabha in the headdress clearly i…
Avalokiteshvara as Saviour from Perils, ink and colours on silk

Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, is show in…
Bodhisattva as Guide of Souls, ink and colours on a silk banner

The painting is inscribed with the characters yinlu pu or 'B…
Bodhisattva with a glass bowl, ink and colours on a silk banner

This is one of the most beautifully executed banners from Mo…
Bodhisattva with censer, ink and colours on a silk banner

This is the painted area of a banner, which has now lost its…
Embroidered tangka of the dharmapala Yama

The fierce and bull-headed Yama stands on his buffalo mount,…
Emperor Huizong (attributed to), Gardenia and Lichee with Birds, a handscroll painting

This realistic painting depicts birds amid clusters of liche…
Four manifestations of Avalokiteshvara, with Samantabhadra and Manjushri, a painting on silk

The four manifestations of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva…
Fukukensaku Kannon with two Guardian Deities, a hanging scroll painting

The central figure is the three-faced, four-armed bodhisatt…
Hanging scroll painting with a portrait of the monk Jion Daishi

Jion Daishi (AD 632-82) was the Chinese patriarch of the Hos…
Hanging scroll painting with a portrait of the young Prince Shotoku Taishi

Prince Shōtoku Taishi (AD 574-622, crown prince and reg…
Hishikawa Moronobu, Scenes in a theatre tea-house, a handscroll painting

The Ukiyo-e school of pictures of the 'floating world' devel…
Hosoda Eishi, The Chinese beauty Yang Guifei, a hanging scroll painting

Yang Guifei, the concubine of the Tang-dynasty emperor Xuanz…
Illustration to the Fumu enzhong jing, ink and colours on silk

The upper part of the painting is occupied by a Buddha group…
Illustration to the Vimalakirtinirdesha Sutra, ink and colours on silk

Vimalakirti, the hero of the Vimalakirtinirdesha sutra , is …
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…
Kano Tan'yu, Miscellaneous Subjects, a handscroll painting

Kanō Tan'yū, was the first official painter to the…
Katsushika Hokusai, Tametomo and the inhabitants of Onigashima Island, a hanging scroll painting

In 1811 the publisher Hirabayashi Shōgorō commissi…
Kawanabe Kyosai, Susano'o no Mikoto subduing the eight-headed serpent, a hanging scroll painting

In Shintō mythology Susano'o was the younger brother of…
Kitagawa Utamaro, Woman at her morning toilette, a hanging scroll painting

Utamaro (died AD 1806) was a master at catching the moods of…
Kshitigarbha as Lord of the Six Ways, ink and colours on silk

The bodhisattva Kshitigarbha is shown wearing a hood and s…
Kshitigarbha, ink and colours on a silk banner

This is one of many examples from Mogao of a painted banner …
Kshitigarbha with the Ten Kings of Hell, ink and colours on silk

This painting shows in detail the Chinese Buddhist concept o…
Leng Mei, Portrait of a Lady, a hanging scroll painting

Leng Mei (active about 1677- about 1742) specialized in figu…
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…
Lokapala, ink and colours on silk (fragment)

This huge fragment - now mounted as a hanging scroll - was o…
Mandala of the Kasuga Shrine Deity in the form of the bodhisattva Jizo, a hanging scroll painting

The bodhisattva Jizō (Sanskrit: Ksitigarbha) was wide…
Mori Shuho and others, Turtles, a hanging scroll painting

This is a collaborative work by ten artists, all based in Os…
Painted clay and wood figure of a horse

Astana was a cemetery site along the Northern Silk Route exp…
Painted silk headpiece from a banner

This square of silk would have been folded diagonally to for…
Paradise of Amitabha, ink and colours on silk

Pure Land sutras , which describe the Paradises of various B…
Paradise of Bhaishajyaguru, ink and colours on silk

This large painting is devoted to Bhaishajyaguru, the Buddha…
Paradise of Bhaishajyaguru, ink and colours on silk

Sutras and rituals connected to Bhaishajyaguru, the Buddha …
Representations of Famous Buddhist Images, ink and colours on silk (fragments)

These fragments are from a large painting, several parts of …
Sakai Doitsu, Mt Fuji and Pines, a hanging scroll painting

Mt Fuji is the most famous and revered mountain in Japan. It…
Samantabhadra and Manjushri, ink and colours on silk

These large paintings were originally paired. Although paint…
Samantabhadra, ink and colours on a silk banner

The triangular top and the streamers of this temple flag or …
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha, ink and colours on a silk banner

This painting was executed in a more sketchy style than othe…
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha, ink and colours on silk

At the time of the birth of the historical Buddha, Shakyamun…
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha, ink and colours on silk

This painting was part of a series representing the life of …
Shakyamuni preaching on the Vulture Peak, silk embroidery on hemp cloth

This is one of the largest known examples of Chinese embroid…
Silk embroidery panel with flowers and ducks

This large piece of embroidery was found folded over and sew…
Suzuki Shuitsu, Enjoying the Evening Cool by the Dry Riverbed at Shijo, a hanging scroll painting

From early in the Edo period (1600-1868), the dry riverbed o…
Tea-caddy, with its set of bags and containers

The pottery tea caddy (second from the left) was probably ma…
Tejaprabha Buddha and the Five Planets, ink and colours on silk

This painting shows a very rare form of the Buddha, named in…
Admonitions Scroll

It illustrates a political parody written by Zhang Hua (abou…
The Death of the Buddha, a hanging scroll painting

The commemoration of the death of the Buddha and his entry i…
The Nymph of the Luo River, a handscroll painting

This is a depiction of the famous prose-poem ( fu ), the Luo…
The thirteenth arhat, Ingada, a hanging scroll painting

Arhat is Sanskrit for an enlightened being (Chinese: luohan …
Thousand-armed, thousand-eyed Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on silk

The figure of the thousand-armed, thousand-eyed bodhisattva…
Thousand-armed, Thousand-eyed Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on silk

The bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara, sits upon a …
Tsubaki Chinzan, Flowers and Plants in the Style of Chen Shun, a handscroll painting

The artist Tsubaki Chinzan (1801-54) was a pupil of the bun…
Two standing Avalokiteshvara, ink and colour on silk

The painting shows two almost identical figures of Avalokite…
Utagawa Hiroshige II, Two views of Mt. Fuji from the Sumida River, a pair of hanging scroll paintings

The Sumida River in Edo was a place of amusement for all soc…
Utagawa Toyokuni, The Kabuki actor Segawa Ronosuke as Shizuka Gozen, a hanging scroll painting

This painting shows the Kabuki female impersonator, Segawa R…
Vaishravana riding across the waters, a painting on silk

This is one of the best depictions of Vaishravana, Guardian …
Vajrapani, ink and colours on a silk banner

Although the format of this banner is largely similar to oth…
Vajrapani, ink and colours on a silk banner

Vajrapani is a Buddhist guardian figure, characteristically …
Vajrapani, ink and colours on silk

This painting is an excellent example of the calligraphic pa…
Virupaksha, Guardian of the West, ink and colours on a silk banner

Although the bottom streamers are now kept separately, this …
Xie Chufang, Fascination of Nature, a handscroll painting

This is a rare example of a signed and dated painting from t…
Gold necklace set with the heads of hummingbirds

'Novelty' jewellery in the nineteenth century referred to je…

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