This porcelain bowl with reeds and geese for decoration has a metal rim where the bowl couldn't be glazed
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
We can recognize from Gu Kaizhi's painting the emergence of Chinese landscape tradition.
Gu Kaizhi, Nymph of the Luo River
Ceramic pillows became a popular domestic item among middle- and upper-class families during the Song dynasty
Ceramic pillow
Jian ware tea bowls were highly prized in China but seem to have gone out of fashion there, whereas the Japanese adopted them for use in tea ceremonies.
Bowl with “oil spot” glaze
Guan ware is probably one of the rarest and most admired types of Chinese ceramics in the present world.
Guan ware long-necked vase
The central section of the painting is made up of scenes illustrating the Fumu enzhong jing, an apocryphal sutra that was popular at Dunhuang in this later period.
Illustration to the Fumu enzhong jing, Dunhuang
This stencil (or pounce) is one of very few to survive, and is the largest and most impressive of those found at Mogao.
Stencil for a five-figure Buddha group
Overall, the Song dynasty was a time of stability and economic, cultural, and artistic prosperity.
Song dynasty (960–1279), an introduction
A painting of a lonely white egret standing in shallow water, attributed to the famous painter Liang Kai
Liang Kai (attributed), White Egret
The monumental sculptural complex at Mt. Baoding, Dazu in China consists of nearly 10,000 painted and gilded images of Buddhist deities and narrative scenes carved out of sandstone.
The art of salvation—Mt. Baoding, Dazu rock ...
Every inch of this contemplative space was carefully crafted—there’s bamboo, patterned paving, and scholar’s rocks.
Master of the (Fishing) Nets Garden
The subject is conventional, but Liang Kai’s airy composition makes this painting unusual. What’s behind the mist?
Liang Kai, Poet Strolling by a Marshy ...
This monumental landscape is the most majestic example of early Song “mountain water” painting.
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