The carpet showcases the cultural interaction and integration happening at the crossroads of East and Central Asia, South Asia, and China in the 5th–6th century on the ancient Silk Road.
Art of China
Color and brushwork create a golden pheasant in this Qing dynasty hanging scroll
Hua Yan, Pheasant, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum
Wang Shimin reimagines the past in this Qing dynasty landscape
Wang Shimin, Cloud Capped Mountains and Misty ...
Peonies, plum blossoms, radishes, and cabbages are all depicted in these calligraphic ink paintings
Zhao Zhiqian, Flowers Album
These garden scenes are examples of how professional artists in Qing-dynasty China made a living
Wang Shishen, Garden scene album leaves
Ren Xiong's captivating self-portrait tells us a great deal about the principles of Chinese painting, the roles of self-portraiture and portraiture, and the canon of Chinese art.
Ren Xiong, Self-Portrait
An artist who used landscape as a way to process the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty.
Gong Xian, Eight Views of Landscape
Mini furniture and figurines give us a tiny look into Ming dynasty life
Miniature furniture and figurines in a Ming ...
Upon its discovery, Lady Dai’s tomb was in a remarkable state of preservation with wooden objects and silks in near perfect condition, as though immune to the ravages of time
The search for immortality: The Tomb of ...
This begonia-shaped porcelain bowl attempts to achieve purity and perfection in its shape, thinness, and glaze
Tang Yue ware
This porcelain bowl with reeds and geese for decoration has a metal rim where the bowl couldn't be glazed
Ding ware bowl, Northern Song dynasty
Along the River during Qingming Festival offers a rare glimpse of the thriving commercial activity of medieval China.
Attributed to Zhang Zeduan, Along the River ...
Emperor Huizong's Auspicious Cranes records natural phenomena that would be interpreted as a good omen for the dynasty.
Emperor Huizong, Auspicious Cranes, handscroll
Gu Hongzhong’s The Night Revels of Han Xizai offers an intriguing portrayal of a court minister testing the bounds of Confucian propriety during the Five Dynasties
Gu Hongzhong, The Night Revels of Han ...
Painting and poetry among friends during Mongol rule in Yuan dynasty China
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