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This baluster shaped vase (or meiping, "plum vase") utilizes multiple techniques and glazes.

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This wine ewer with pear-shaped body, high handle, upright curving spout, and bell-shaped cover with a knob is painted with underglaze decorations in

Snuff Bottle with Landscape

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This snuff bottle has a pilgrim bottle shape with a glass stopper and a green-stained bone collar.

Portable Buddhist Shrine

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Pilgrims and itinerant monks used portable shrines for worship and teaching.

Hair Ornament

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This pair of ornaments (with Walters 86.1) and headdress (Walters 86.3) were likely once worn by the empress dowager, the effective ruler of China dur

Bowl with Deer

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This bowl is decorated with six panels of long legged deer against formalized foliage.

Wine Jar with Carp among Water Weeds and Lotuses

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This extraordinary Chinese porcelain wine jar was made at the Jingdezhen [Ching-te Chen] kilns during the reign of the Jiajing [Chia-ching] emperor (1

Ritual Diadem with Five Buddhas

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Diadems such as this one, with five segments bearing images of the five cosmic Buddhas, are worn by Buddhist monks and priests during the performance

Simhavaktra

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Simhavaktra, a Buddhist goddess whose name means “lion-faced,” dramatically embodies the ideal of enlightenment.

Kalachakra and Vishvamata

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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

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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

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

Snuff Bottle with Pair of Dragons

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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.

Cosmic Mount Meru

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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

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

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

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

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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

Offering Tangka of Protector Deity Palden Remati

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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