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The Chinese Monk Budai

The Walters Art Museum

This rubbing is of an engraving at Shaolin Temple in the Shantung province.

The Walters Art Museum

Locked in a passionate embrace, the male Buddha Kalachakra and his female partner, Vishvamata, manifest the ideal of complete enlightenment, the supre

Bowl with Lotus Decoration

The Walters Art Museum

Chinese blue and white porcelains were some of the most commonly exported pieces to Europe, the Near East, and Southeast Asia.

Plate with Dutch Couple

The Walters Art Museum

Chinese export porcelain appeared in European markets as early as 1517, the year king of Portugal Manuel I established an embassy at Beijing.

Album of Landscapes

The Walters Art Museum

Now detached, these four leaves were originally joined together. They were to be looked at one by one, like pages in a book.

Snuff Bottle with Pair of Dragons

The Walters Art Museum

This bottle has been adapted for snuff with a very wide neck plus a matching stopper with a large cork and shovel-shaped ivory spoon.

Free Spirits Among Streams and Mountains

The Walters Art Museum

When he painted this long handscroll in 1684, Wang Yuanqi [Wang Yüan-ch'i], the greatest orthodox master of the Qing [Ch'ing] dynasty, had n

Cosmic Mount Meru

The Walters Art Museum

The setting, with beasts and floating skulls in a desolate landscape, focuses the mind of the meditator (or the initiate in a ceremony) upon mortality

Calligraphy

The Walters Art Museum

An important government official and poet, Qian Feng [Ch'ien Feng] is remembered for his courage in speaking out against corruption in high place

Snuff Bottle with Bird on a Rock and a Deer under a Pine

The Walters Art Museum

This white nephrite jade snuff bottle is of flattened vase form.

Snuff Bottle with Bird on a Rock and Lotus Blossoms in a Pond

The Walters Art Museum

This very attractive shadow agate snuff bottlehas a dull beige tone ground with dark areas carved to reveal lotus blossoms in a pond, and a bird on a

Purification at the Orchid Pavilion

Cleveland Museum of Art

This painting records a historic event in the year AD 353.

Music-Making in a Pavilion

The Walters Art Museum

This painting is intended to suggest an earlier ideal time: the landscape is painted in the "blue-and-green" style that dates back to the Ta

Offering Tangka of Protector Deity Palden Remati

The Walters Art Museum

Palden Remati, a form of the female protector Lhamo, is depicted entirely with symbols: a club, a halo of flames, and a blood-filled skull cup (that o

Album of Calligraphies and Paintings

The Walters Art Museum

This board-bound, accordion-fold Chinese album consists of 26 pages.

Set of Ten Ink Cakes with Poems of the Ten Scenes at the West Lake in Cursive Script Style (xingshu)

The Cleveland Museum of Art

This exquisite lacquer box contains ten ink cakes of different shapes and colors.

Double-tier Mirror

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The craft of mirror making prospered remarkably during the Warring States period, as bronzes increasingly served as luxury items for individuals.

Birds Gather under the Spring Willow

The Cleveland Museum of Art

A great variety of birds, including the peacock and peahen, are portrayed in a natural setting.

Calligraphy in Semi-Cursive Style (xing-caoshu)

The Cleveland Museum of Art

This spontaneous, bold calligraphy style is characteristic of members of the Japanese Obaku sect of Chan Buddhism (Huangbo in Chinese), which was intr

White-Robed Guanyin

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The original model for this ink drawing of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of infinite compassion (Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit), is accession number 1978.47.