**The Illustrated Tang Poems** (Ch'i-yan T'ang-shih Hua-pu), 1621

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Ewer, Tang Dynasty, earthenware, glazed. — Ewer, 618-907
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Tang Dynasty; unglazed pottery standing lady playing a drum; some red and yellow pigments — Tomb Figure, c. 700
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reproduction; in style of Tang Dynasty — Black Horse, late 19th-early 20th century
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Tang Dynasty; woman attendant in feathered headdress — Tomb Statuette, c. 700
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Figure of Civil Official, Tang Dynasty, 8th century, stoneware with straw colored glaze. — Figure of Civil Official, 8th century
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compressed spherical form on a high pedestal foot; domed cover with knob of concentric graduated disks surmounted by pear-shaped finial — Buddhist Reliquary, 7th-8th century
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painted pottery figure of a lady with an elaborate coif and a full round face; tiny hands extend outward from wide sleeves of a loosely draped robe covering an amply sized figure; the robe falls over the upturned toes of shoes; on a rectangular base — Standing Lady, c. 725-750
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large jar covered with slip and translucent glaze; slightly flared and beveled flat foot; short, straight neck; horizontal mouth rim; saucer-like cover — Storage Jar and Cover, 7th-8th century
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group of drunken men clustered around tables, attempting calligraphy, leading and riding a horse; man at UR standing behind banner — Eight Immortals Indulged in Wine, early 19th century
Watanabe Nangaku

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standing figure with arms bent at elbows, PL forearm slightly lower than PR forearm; unfinished back; looping drapery folds — Standing Shakyamuni Buddha, late 6th century
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Scalloped edge dish; raised decoration throughout interior of flowers and foliage; white glaze overall — Dish, 10th century
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three color Amphora, earthenware with three color glaze of brown, cream and pale green over a pink body — Amphora, late 7th-8th century
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pair of shears, the tapering blades joined through a figure-of-eight-shaped spring-handle and decorated on each side with a bird in flight and scrolling foliage, on a ground of ring-matting — Shears (scissors), 8th-9th century
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rounded body on raised foot; slightly inward-curving lip; surface decorated with abstracted floral shapes in brown glaze 5 on interior, 4 at lip and outer edge, separated by brown ovals — Bowl, 9th century
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cream-colored glaze on ground; decorated with scroll and floral motifs overall in light brown — Pillow, early 11th century
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five pointed leaf motif with six leaved flower (in plain and twisted wire) within it; a multiple leaved blossom at center; pin extends down from center — Hair Ornament, one of a pair, 11th century
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long handle; cup-shaped censer with removable liner with small lion on rim; end of handle has another seated lion; top of handle has petal-shaped ornament; green patina — Buddhist Long-handled Censer, 8th century
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relief sculpture; three figures inside a concave niche; central seated figure on lotus blossom on pedestal flanked by standing figures, incised Chinese characters around front edges; traces of pigment appearing brown--predominately grey — Buddhist votive stele with Buddha and two Bodhisattvas, 678
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crouching rabbit with small ears and brown eyes; rectangular base with squared-off corners — Figure of a Rabbit, 8th-9th century
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the boulder with unusual color used in the carving, the goose with head sharply turned, shown enveloped in lotus plants, with one large leaf using the green color of the stone and several flowers using the russet markings, on a carved base of swirling waves; carved of gray-green stone with brown markings. Former Classification: Jade — Goose, 16th century
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male figure seated on a chair placed on a small podium; man has PL hand on thigh and PR hand on belt; glazed in green, blue, brown and yellow; dragon on front of man's garment — Figure of Wenchang, Deity of Literature, 12th-13th century
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This weapon displays the assymetrically placed tang and the strongly beaked, crested head of a bird that was a ubiquitous motif in the bronze art of Yin-time. The details of the bird's head are in rather heavy thread relief. This piece is similar to Karlgren Number 81, plate 99, but is of bronze throughout. Patina green — Ceremonial dagger, 12th-11th century BCE
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Tendai Priest (Patriarch) Portrait of one of the eight high priests of the Tendai Sect of Buddhism in Japan. Kamakura. 1185 to 1392 A.D. Single wood construction; no restoration. — Figure of a Monk, 9th-10th century
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bulbous stoneware pot with handle, small opening at top, small spout on side; greenish brown glaze does not go to bottom — Ewer, 8th-9th century
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green ox with attachable cart consisting of yoke, 2 side rails and 2 wheels, with accompanying free-standing farmer — Cart with Ox and Farmer, 1st century
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Snuff bottle. Smokey crystal. Green Jade top. Hand painted with many figures. Signed and sealed. — Snuff Bottle, 1920
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white dish on a medium-sized foot; edge cut with pattern of 2 scallops followed by a point — Barb-rimmed Bowl, one of a pair, 10th century
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white dish on a medium-sized foot; edge cut with pattern of 2 scallops followed by a point — Barb-rimmed Bowl, one of a pair, 10th century
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camel standing on diamond-shaped base; head up, tail up and curled; yellow with traces of red and black pigment; single hump — Two camels and a groom (Camel), 618-907
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Dignitary, probably a civil counsellor. Glazed pottery tomb figure, one of a pair, mounted on a stand. The costume is predominantly brown with details in mottled colors. Head, headdress and hands unglazed. — Tomb retinue, early 8th century
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plate; tripod, with peacocks and other fanciful birds around center of single peacock with open tail; small sing birds and grape motif; no design outside; silver; stipple background. Silver with chased and gilt decor. — Plate, 8th century
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Ewer, Design in relief- top in form of animal head- covered with blue, green, yellow and red glaze. — Phoenix-Head Ewer, 618-906
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bulbous round body tapering and flaring outward to second smaller bulbous shape on small foot; grey-white glaze — Gourd-Shaped Vase, 11th century
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Yue ware; pea green glaze with rounded body and long neck with trumpet shaped mouth; ribbed handle; long thin spout attached to body — Ewer, 9th century
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brown lacquer with inlaid mother-of-pearl; flaring edges on a short foot; floral patterns at edges; winding river with figures, buildings, boats and bridges at center — Tray, 16th century
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Empress robe of blue satin, attributed to Cixi, embroiderd with lily bulbs in shades of grey, pale blue-green and golden yellow. Happy Augury(?) signs alternate with lily bulbs over all. Wide border of black embroidered with same motifs around bottom, opening and cuffs of robe. — Manchu Woman's Unofficial Informal Court Robe, 1875-1908
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standing figure; hands held together next to body at chest, with long flowing arms of robe hanging in front, figure is wearing a crown and staring forward; painted and gilt; has own mount — Civil Dignitary, 618-906
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standing female figure with hair in two buns, wearing long robes; woman holds a small vessel; yellow glaze on top with traces of red pigment on stomach and edge of skirt — Female Attendant, one of five, 7th century
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small bowl with white glaze with light blue tinge; unglazed foot — Small Dish, 9th century
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Ewer, with pheasant's head stopper. Pear-shaped body, with tapering short neck and short spout, on domed, spreading foot. The removable stopper, in the form of a pheasant's head, is modelled in full relief with carved details, the double strand handle is also modelled. Buff white porcelain with even, creamy-white glaze. — Ewer with Pheasant-Head Stopper, 8th century
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five feet; bowl-shaped body with outward-turned rim; domed cover with geometric and organic pierced design; teardrop-shaped finial; green patina — Covered Incense Burner, 7th-8th century
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brown glaze; wide shoulder with short narrow neck; 4 bands of cut away (sgraffiato) decoration (from top) leafy scroll, key-fret, floral with twisting vines, stylized leaves and flowers; has fitted blue box — Ovoid Bottle, late 12th century
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small wood table, top slants slightly toward back; front and sides carved in low relief with religious symbols and lacquered, single horizontal support brace at back; cloud design at front with two rectangular inscriptions at top — Sutra Table, 18th century
Tibet

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2 buildings at bottom with three figures; frost on trees throughout; rocky mountain peak at top — Thatched Huts Among Ridges in Winter, 1649
Lan Ying

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two dragons in upper corners wrapping around inkwell at top center; dark brown slate — Inkstone, c. 1740
Chou Shao-lung

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green glaze; rounded shoulder; flat bottom; long neck, tapering and flaring out at top to ring mouth; two-part handle with two dragons' heads with their mouths around edge of mouth opening on spout; small chicken head with slightly open beak as pouring spout; four squared-off loops at shoulder- two on each side — Chicken-head Ewer, c. 570
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armless figure--bottom edge at middle of thighs; heavily muscled torso; wearing skirt with tie at waist; frowning, angry expression; headdress; dark stone with white veins — Dvarapala (Guardian Figure), 8th century
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darker brown on top with reddish brown near bottom; flat, bottle-like shape; ovoid foot; identical moulded design on each side: large dancing figure, small clapping figure and large figure playing a flute — Flask with Figural Decoration, 550-577
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very round body and short tail; bulging eyes; flat snout; small head; raised bristles on spine — Pig, 13th century
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dark brown glaze splashed with pale blue on the vessel's shoulder; rare phosphatic glaze; unglazed foot — Jar, 8th century
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slightly rounded body with long thin neck with wide, flat ring midway to top; small spout with hinged cover; green patina — Buddhist Ritual Water Bottle, c. 750
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new frame and border; central seated male with two children next to him, surrounded by people in a garden; scattered groups of people within nearby buildings and out of doors engaged in activities — General Guo Ziyi's Banquet, mid 19th century
Unknown Korean

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Vase, China — Vase, 618-799
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Head of Serpent, Zodiacal figure; polychromed terra cotta. This, representing God of the Constellation I, grey earthenware with white ground, painted with flesh-coloured pigments. — Snake from Set of Zodiac Figures, 618-907
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carved low-relief floral design on top; stamped design on sides; 3-line inscription, in black, on bottom; white, tan, black and green glazes on top; green glaze on sides — Pillow, 1190
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Scholar in Landscape, Liu Yuanqi — Scholar in Landscape, 1601
Liu Yuanqi

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a: fine grain, smooth textured stone; dark purplish-gray color; carved in outline of "wind" character (feng); wide flat surface sloping down to a well enclosed by a raised border at the narrower end, border continues on the long sides and tapers down to the curved lip of the open fan-shaped wider end; two slab supports carved out of the edges on the underside; remains of black ink in interior margins; b: silver box with open pedestal base pierced on all four sides with wide oval openings of ogee-bracket form above the flat flanged foot; supports a quadrilateral container with tapered sides and rounded ends fitted to the outside of the inkstone; shallow sides with an inner flange; c: plain domed cover — Inkstone and Fitted Silver Box, 10th-11th century
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round-bodied jar on a wide ring foot tapering to a very short neck with a widely flaring trumpet mouth; green glaze — Waste Vessel (ch'a-tou), 9th century
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four ladies seated around a low red table on a red flowered carpet on a stone pathway in a garden, playing a game with cards or tiles; trees with white blossoms behind path at center and in front of path at left; blue rocks, LRC; grey rock, URQ — Court Ladies at Play, 1683
Xu Zhuang

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Jar, all over blue glaze. White earthenware with blue lead glaze. — Jar, 618-906
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6 panel screen with alternating panels of calligraphy, and panels of bamboo stalks with delicate foliage and small inscriptions — Bamboo and Chinese Poems [right of a pair], 1865
Doi Gōga

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6 panels, alternating between large calligraphy, and images of bamboo with rocks, and smaller inscriptions — Bamboo and Chinese Poems [left of a pair], 1865
Doi Gōga

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burnt design on exterior — Cricket Container, late 17th century
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Smiling seated man with thin, wild black hair, holding a brush in his PR hand; rocks and tree at left with mountains in background — The Immortal Hanshan, c. 1500
Unknown; Artist: Attributed to Jiang Gui

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seven volumes, each covered in dragon-patterned fabrics; blue pages with text in gold with some red characters at beginnings and ends of volumes; volume with orange front cover and blue back cover has six-leaf painting on front pages in gold, blue and green; volume with gold front cover and pink back cover has two-leaf painting on back pages; volumes contained in a silk-lined wood box with removable cover — The Lotus Sutra in Seven Volumes, 16th century
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One of a pair of polychrome dishes with buff crackled glaze and painted with designs of pine, plum blossom and bamboo in overglaze enamel; shallow dish with scalloped rim; three orange bats on exterior; exterior is slightly lighter tan on .1 than .2 — Polychrome dish, one of a pair, 1851-1875
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long narrow form; constructed out of a single piece of wood with rectangular hole cut in the underside serving as the sound box; top is slightly convex; sides flat; neck slightly raised; tiger's face with large eyes, flaring nostrils, flattened ears, wide curved mouth carved at one end; tiger's head is pierced with large square opening, designed to hold the single string anchor, and five small holes for pegs; covered overall with black lacquer; painted with a fine red cross-hatched design on top and sides; sides decorated with frieze of 5 black dragons with elongated arched bodies, long tails, thin legs and gold wings; another dragon on top of neck; narrow bands of black diamonds on a solid red ground at edges; fingerboard painted with 4 groups of symmetrically confronting double-headed dragons with snakelike bodies between human-faced dragon figures and either end — Zither (Qin), 5th century BCE
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chrysanthemum blooms and leaves center and left; mantis-like insect on bloom at center right; circular mat; faded red seal upper right; single line of calligraphy upper left with faded red seal below — Chrysanthemums, 13th-14th century
Guan Daosheng

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shoreline in foreground with houses and pine trees; water in middle ground; some islands in background; Mt. Fuji at L far background — Matsushima, 1826, 5th month
Tani Bunchō

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very tall, elongated figure; triangular-shaped face; very close-set features; painted eyes and garment details in red, black and white; long sleeves; mostly dark brown patina overall — Figurine of a Female Court Attendant, 4th-3rd century BCE
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arched-shaped stone element; relief carvings of seated figure flanked by two pairs of standing figures; two flying figures at top; incised text below figures — Taoist Stele of Five Deities, 722
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round pierced container with small circular cover; rust-colored knotted cord attached to cover; three cartouches on sides of container, each with image of a lady wearing rust-colored garment, with yellow and pink curtains; cartouche on bottom with multicolored flowers; body of vessel is turquoise; rust-colored cover — Potpourri container, 18th-19th century
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Folding Stool, China — Folding Stool, 16th-17th century
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Carved with a dragon's head at the base, with another dragon climbing at the side to form the handle, the grey-green stone with brown andblack markings, crudely carved with archaistic scrollwork. Flaw chip at rim. Weatherd at one side more greatly than the other. Former Classification: Jade — Rhyton, 13th century
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twenty-three lines of black text — Buddhist Text: Fragment from Tun Huang Cave Sanctuary, c. 600
Dunhuang

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two very large, bold characters; two large red seals at left edge, center; one red seal, URC — Bring the Qin, first half 17th century
Nakae Tōjū

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Tz'u-chou pillow, bean-shaped with leaf design, incised against punch-mark ground on white slip coating; stoneware. — Pillow, 11th century
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two lines of calligraphy with signature at L; brown mount — Temporary Palace at Yoshino, second half 19th century
Murase Taiitsu

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two columns of calligraphy in black ink on off-white paper; square red seal at BC; horizontal strip of brown floral fabric above and below image; mount is gold floral fabric at center with light blue silk at top and bottom; dark brown wood roller; blue and white woven tie at top; black lacquer inner storage box with lid and brown strip cloth case; wooden black outer box with lid and indigo blue cloth storage case; includes paper calligraphy in envelope inside box — Two Line Poem, 1470s
Ikkyū Sōjun

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large jar with long neck, flaring outward at rim; pair of handles from shoulder to mouth in the form of dragon's heads biting the rim of mouth; six applied moulded floral elements at shoulder; light green — Amphora, 7th century
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Lacquer circular Foliate box with mother-of-pearl inlay; nine lobes; dignitaries at leisure with attendants on a terrace — Foliate box and cover, 14th century
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torso and legs of a figure--head, PL arm at bicep and PR arm at elbow lost; clinging drapery; beaded necklace and long beaded strands from PR shoulder, around knees and down center of back; lotus blossom base; cream-colored stone — Standing bodhisattva, late 7th-early 8th century
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kimono with cream ground and red-orange lining, with padded hem; decorated with net-like flowers in brown; black ink outlines of scrolling stems, buds and flowers; some solid black flowers with metallic gold details; orange silk embroidered flowers and buds; some gold detailing on stems and on some flowers; some green embroidered stems; large bold characters on each sleeve and chest at upper PR and on upper body on back — Kosode with plum trees and Chinese poem, second half 17th century
Unknown Japanese

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six lines, seal LLC; mounted to sheet with gold flecks, brocade border, and gold background — Two Poems by Yan Xiufu, late 18th - early 19th century
Kameda Bōsai

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dark brown glaze on top; inscriptions in unglazed areas at sides — Daoist Seal, 960-1279
Liu Ching K'o

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standing female figure holding a jewel in extended PL hand; holds PR hand open and down in blessing greeting; long robes with long, rippled sleeves; stands on red base — Shri-mahadevi (Kichijōten), first half 14th century
Unknown Japanese

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second of two albums; tan silk covered cardboard covers; inside of front cover has abstracted foliage imagery with gold leaf; double-sided pages of calligraphy with primarily four characters per page; primarily bold characters; some characters are very pointed; two pages of thin, closely-spaced, freeform characters; two pages of very looping, organic characters — Model Book of the "Thousand Character Classic", pt. 2, second half 17th century
Sasaki Shizuma

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first of two albums; tan silk covered cardboard covers; inside of front cover has abstracted foliage imagery with gold leaf; double-sided pages of calligraphy with four characters per page; primarily bold characters; four pages near front of scroll with characters made of very thin lines — Model Book of the "Thousand Character Classic", pt. 1, second half 17th century
Sasaki Shizuma

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unsigned — Visual Parody of Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei, 1765
Suzuki Harunobu

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female figure in white robes seated on a jagged rock, with PR foot resting on PL foot; elegant headdress; vase with plant on rock at L; waterfall and cliff with foliage above — White-Robed Kannon, 15th century
Unknown Japanese

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13th century rubbing of the Li Sixun Bei, engraved in 720 A.D., incomplete; accordian album of nine rubbing leaves, three pages of hand written text; two pages with writing lines and no text — Rubbings of the Li Ssu-hsun, 13th century
Li Yung

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landscape with tall jagged rocks; waterfall at R with river at L; tiny figure with donkey in LLC at bank; small buildings in LRC and L behind and above figure and donkey; one seal, LRC; two seals, LLC; two seals and inscription, ULC — Waiting for the Ferry, 1618
Jiang Ai

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5 lines of calligraphy in black ink; 3 red seals; white silk brocade ground — Commentary on the Peach Blossom Spring, c. 1700
Wang Shih-hung

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%C2%A9 1978 Fan Zeng

Portrait of Calligrapher Huai Su, 1978

Fan Zeng

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four lines of text; black on white; large red seal in LLC — Poem in Running Script, 20th century
Shan Xiaotian; Author: Poem by Li Bai

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heavy-set man seated inside a large sack; smiling man has light beard and wears dark garment, open at the chest; has storage box — Hotei Within his Sack, 1800
Kōgan Gengei

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large, scowling black bird perched on rock in four screens at R; dramatic waves at LLC and LRC — Eagle on Rock by Waves, first half 19th century
Mochizuki Gyokusen

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predominately light green and grey; irregular green mountain peaks with several buildings partially hidden by foliage; several areas of stair steps visible between foliage; waterfalls — Rivers and Mountains in Late Spring, 2006
Li Xubai

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Roundback Chair, 17th century

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