EditorialRank badge, Medium: silk and metallic yarns Technique: Pekin stitch and couching on satin weave ground, Mandarin square (P'u tzu) for civil official of the eighth rank. Embroidery in colored silks and gold thread shows quail against a golden sky, with ...
EditorialRank badge, Medium: silk and metallic embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered with satin and couching stitches on gauze weave, Rank badge for a civil official of the fifth rank. Embroidered silk and metallic yarns showing a silver pheasant...
EditorialRank badge, Medium: silk and metallic embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered with satin and couching stitches on gauze weave, Rank badge for a civil official of the fifth rank. Embroidered silk and metallic yarns showing a silver pheasant...
EditorialRank badge, Medium: silk and metallic embroidery on silk foundation, coral beads Technique: embroidered with couching and satin stitches on satin weave, Rank badge for a civil official of the fifth rank. Embroidered silk and metallic yarns showing a si...
EditorialRank badge, Medium: silk embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered with satin and couching stitches on satin weave, Rank badge for a civil official. Embroidered silk showing a bird facing a sun disk surrounded by auspicious symbols. Ground o...
EditorialRank badge, Medium: silk embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered with counted stitches on gauze weave, Rank badge for a civil official. Embroidered silk showing a bird facing a sun disk surrounded by auspicious symbols. Ground of clouds wi...
EditorialRank badge, Medium: silk and metallic embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered with couching stitches, Rank badge for a civil official. Embroidered silk showing a bird facing a sun disk surrounded by auspicious symbols. Ground of clouds wit...
EditorialRank badge, Medium: silk and metallic yarns Technique: Pekin stitch and couching on satin weave ground, Mandarin square (P'u tzu) for civil official of the eighth rank. Embroidery in colored silks and gold thread shows quail against a golden sky, with ...
EditorialRank badge, Medium: silk and metallic embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered with stem, split, and couching stitches on satin weave, Rank badge for a civil official of the fifth rank. Embroidered silk and metallic yarns showing a silver p...
EditorialMirror with Quatrefoil, Paired Phoenixes, and Auspicious Animals, early 1st Century - early 4th Century. China, Eastern Han dynasty (25-220) - Western Jin dynasty (265-316). Bronze; diameter: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.); overall: 0.8 cm (5/16 in.); rim: 0.2 cm...
EditorialMirror with Auspicious Animals, Celestial Horses, and Grapevines, early 1100s-mid-1200s. China, Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Bronze; diameter: 25.9 cm (10 3/16 in.); overall: 0.8 cm (5/16 in.); rim: 0.9 cm (3/8 in.).
EditorialMirror with Quatrefoil, Paired Phoenixes, and Auspicious Animals, early 3rd -early 4th century. China, Three Kingdoms (221-280) - Western Jin dynasty (265-316). Bronze; diameter: 18.6 cm (7 5/16 in.); overall: 1.2 cm (1/2 in.); rim: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.).
EditorialSaucer with auspicious symbols and ornamental borders, Porcelain dish, painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, black and gold. On the plate of the dish in the center a peach branch in a medallion with a spearhead border and decorative band with styli...
EditorialSaucer dish with hunting scene, lotus scrolls and auspicious symbols, Porcelain dish with round, ribbed wall and scalloped edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the flat a hunting scene with two armed horsemen in a landscape, hunting a hare, the border ...
EditorialSaucer dish with hunting scene, lotus scrolls and auspicious symbols, Porcelain dish with round, ribbed wall and scalloped edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the flat a hunting scene with two armed horsemen in a landscape, hunting a hare, the border ...
EditorialSaucer-dish with auspicious symbols, diaper pattern and scrolls, Porcelain dish, painted in underglaze blue and on the enamel red, green, eggplant, black and gold. On the front in the center a medallion with a peach surrounded by tendrils. Around the m...
EditorialSaucer dish with a bird on a rock, flower sprays and auspicious objects, Porcelain dish, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze green and red. On the shelf a scalloped cartouche containing a bird on a rock with flowering plants. On the wall a box ...
EditorialSaucer-dish with hunting scene, lotus scrolls and auspicious symbols, Porcelain dish with round, ribbed wall and scalloped edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the flat a hunting scene with two armed horsemen in a landscape, hunting a hare, the border ...
EditorialFolding hat bowl with auspicious symbols, flower and fruit sprays, Folding hat bowl made of porcelain with a scalloped edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the bottom lucky objects (role, chakra), the inner wall is divided into four wide compartments w...
EditorialCovered cup with a coat of arms, flower sprays and auspicious symbols, Cover of ear of porcelain with spherical body and braided ear, painted on the glaze in red, black and gold. The lid with a decorative band with napkin work in cartouches, flower spr...
EditorialMirror with Quatrefoil, Paired Phoenixes, and Auspicious Animals, early 1st Century - early 4th Century. China, Eastern Han dynasty (25-220) - Western Jin dynasty (265-316). Bronze; diameter: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.); overall: 0.8 cm (5/16 in.); rim: 0.2 cm...
EditorialMirror with Auspicious Animals, Celestial Horses, and Grapevines, early 1100s-mid-1200s. China, Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Bronze; diameter: 25.9 cm (10 3/16 in.); overall: 0.8 cm (5/16 in.); rim: 0.9 cm (3/8 in.).
EditorialMirror with Quatrefoil, Paired Phoenixes, and Auspicious Animals, early 3rd -early 4th century. China, Three Kingdoms (221-280) - Western Jin dynasty (265-316). Bronze; diameter: 18.6 cm (7 5/16 in.); overall: 1.2 cm (1/2 in.); rim: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.).
EditorialInscribed Reliquary, Donated by King Indravarman, A.D. 5?6, Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara, Bajaur), Schist, Diam. 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm), Sculpture, Inscribed: 'In the sixty-third year of the late Great King Aya [Azes], on the sixteenth day of the m...