Editorial? ?? ????? ?, The Pure Whiteness of Winter, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), dated 1441, China, Hanging scroll; ink on silk, Image: 58 7/8 x 30 in. (149.5 x 76.2 cm), Paintings, Xu Jing (Chinese, active first half 15th century), Flowering through snow and col...
EditorialBlack and Blue Painted Bowl, early 13th century, Made in Iran, probably Kashan, Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze, H. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm), Ceramics, The whiteness of stonepaste provided a canvas upon which potters could paint pigmen...