108 Buddhist Statues in Tibet

Ulrich von Schroeder

Mostly unknown to the outside world, the temples and storerooms of Tibet?s monasteries shelter a great number of ancient Buddhist objects. Not only are there a great number of Buddhist sculptures and paintings produced by Tibetan artists, but included also are rare examples originating from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Burma, and China. These images have withstood sometimes...  >More

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The Immortal Stone

James C.S. Lin

The Immortal Stone draws on the extraordinarily rich collection of Chinese jades in The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The most exceptional of these include objects from the Qing imperial court, animal sculptures, utensils and desk items of remarkable draftsmanship and inventiveness. The use of jade declined after the collapse of the Han empire and it was not until the Ming and...  >More

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A Treasury of Ming and Qing Dynasty Palace Furniture

Desheng Hu

This two-volume set is an important publication in the study of furniture from the Palace Museum (Forbidden City) in Beijing. Through 30 years of work and research in the Palace Museum, furniture specialist and author Hu Desheng has selected 455 of the most outstanding pieces (or sets) of furniture, illustrated in these volumes in high-quality color photographs. Chapters 1, 2 and 3...  >More

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Chinese Puzzles

Games for the Hands and Mind

Wei Zhang and Peter Rasmussen

Along with its history of art, culture and science, China also has a rich tradition of puzzles and a fascination with puzzling objects. Besides, many traditional Chinese puzzles are artistic creations that reflect classical art forms and display extraordinary craftmanship. Here, the collection of Wei Zhang and Peter Rasmussen is displayed with splendid photography, forever...  >More

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Ichiro: Master Netsuke Carver

Norman L. Sandfield and Huey G. Shelton

Features the collection of Huey G. and Phyllis T. Shelton, along with two other collections. Ichiro Inada (1891-1977), the famous Japanese netsuke carver has been popular with collectors around the world. This volume illustrates superb examples of his works.  >More

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Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II

Edited by Jennifer Purtle and Hans Bjarne Thomsen

Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II examines multiple dimensions of visual modernity in East Asia from the nineteenth century through the early decades of the twentieth. The papers were drawn from two symposia held at the Center for the Art of East Asia in the Department of Art History, the University of Chicago, which brought out important...  >More

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The Palace of Established Happiness: Restoring a Garden in the Forbidden City

May Holdsworth

The Qianlong emperor considered gardens essential to a ruler's mental and emotional well-being. The first garden he built, begun in 1742, was attached to Jianfu gong, the Palace of Established Happiness, in the northwest quarter of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Filled with exquisite pavilions, weathered rocks, sunken courtyards and winding galleries, this garden became Qianlong's...  >More

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Ethereal Elegance

Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing - The Huaihaitang Collection

Peter Y. K. Lam

Ceramic outputs from the Imperial Porcelain Factory at Jingdezhen of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) have long been admired for their sumptuous decorative style and superb firing techniques. This exhibition is a testimony of this - through a comprehensive display of porcelain vases of a wide range of shapes, decorative techniques and glaze effects. All exhibits are drawn from the...  >More

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Virtuous Treasures

Chinese Jades for the Scholar's Table

Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Featuring over 140 jades, dating mostly to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), this exhibition brings together, for the first time, jades from several private collections alongside examples from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong to illustrate the extraordinary achievements of jade carving. The exhibit includes examples carved...  >More

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Later Chinese Bronzes

The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collections

Philip K. Hu

Ranging in date from the Northern Song (960 - 1127) through the Qing (1644 - 1911) dynasties, later Chinese bronzes constitute one of the most intriguing, yet least studied aspects of Chinese art, in part due to difficulties associated with connoisseurship and dating. However, recent art-historical research and scientific analyses have allowed for better understanding of the stylistic...  >More

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A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles

The Mary and George Bloch Collection Volume 6 Arts of the Fire (3 Parts)

Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang

This volume illustrates over 1,000 fired snuff bottles in the collection of Mary and George Bloch. It covers everything that is fired with an updated overview of Palace enamelling on glass and metal and enamelling on glass, metal and porcelain at other centers, including the early Qianlong enamelled porcelain bottles made under Tang Ying at Jingdezhen. It also covers cloisonne enamels...  >More

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Buddhism: The Fabric of Life in Asia

David Price

Buddhism is the fabric of life in Asia, and no memorials tower higher than the monuments to Buddha spread across Asia. Portrayed by generations of artists and artisans and working centuries and cultures apart, the face nevertheless remains unmistakable. The serenity of that countenance, the articulation of those hands and of that posture in repose could not signify any but...  >More

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A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection Volume 7 Organic, Metal & Mixed Media (2 Parts)

Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang

This volume covers all organic materials used in the production of snuff bottles as represented in the Bloch Collection, and a study of metal and mixed media snuff bottle production, including an updated assessment of the Shunzhi-dated bronze group of bottles signed Cheng-Rongzhang. It also covers the significant group of snuff bottles produced in Japan for collectors between 1854 and...  >More

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The Last Emperor's Collection*

Masterpieces of Painting and Calligraphy From the Liaoning Provincial Museum

Willow Weilan Hai Chang, Yang Renkai and David Ake Sensabaugh

Painting and calligraphy, China’s most revered art forms, were collected by its emperors from at least the fifth century AD. These two art forms have been a treasured part of the imperial collection throughout Chinese history and a particular passion of several emperors in different time periods. In the early twentieth century, China’s last emperor, Pu Yi, sold off and dispersed...  >More

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Heavenly Splendour*

The Edrina Collection of Ming and Qing Imperial Costumes

This is a catalogue to accompany a display at the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, as part of the exhibition Timeless Legacy: The Mok Family Collections. The 52 imperial costumes of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) periods featured in the catalogue are selected from the Edrina Collection. They include formal court robes (chaofu), semi-formal court robes (jifu)...  >More

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Chinnery in China

Peter Moss

George Chinnery was that providential and all-too-rare combination of the right man in the right place at the right time. But for him, our vision of the China coast in the early years of the nineteenth century would remain deficient, our understanding of Macau less secure and our grasp of its humanity lacking in intimacy. His was the faithful record not only of the greater...  >More

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Auspicious Ornamental Jades

A Wanyu Shanfang Collection of Qing Jades

The items found in this publication are a small but exceptional sampling of ornamental jades. Ornamental jades were considered carriers of auspiciousness. This tradition of Chinese decorated art started in the Han, was followed by subsequent dynasties and lasted through the Qing Dynasty. Illustrated in this publication are mystical heavenly creatures, Chinese zodiac creatures, animals...  >More

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China: The Longest Journey 1850-1949

Jonathan Fenby

To fully grasp the astonishing distance China has traversed, from one of the world?s earliest and most advanced civilizations to the economic giant it is today, one must see the achievement in its historic perspective. China has compressed almost inconceivable change into little more than a century, shedding the last vestiges of age-old imperial dynasties to confront the modern...  >More

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