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Name: Tomb model of a house
Medium: painted earthenware
Period: Han Dynasty

Small-scale clay models of Han architecture used as burial substitutes. They were found in large tombs, an afterlife dwelling for the dead. Model house, is of gray clay covered with white slip painted with red pigments, and some green lead glazed. The palace is simply such a building, made up of a number of the highest and largest possible bays put together. Decorations were important and were achieved with inlays of metal, precious stone, and jade, or with colorful paint and lacquer.
Name: Painted banner from the tomb of Lady Dai
Period: Western Han
Date: after 168 BCE
Medium: silk with colored pigments
(Mawangdui Tomb 1, Hunan Province)

Silk banner found draping the inner coffin is accomplished in technique and complex in design. Its formal and balanced composition depicts the three world levels:
1) the sky above with its mythical inhabtants (Sun Crow, moon toad, and celestial dragons)
2) the earth in the middle with the marquise and her women attendants
3) the nether regions with a burial grouping of ritual vessels and male (mourner?) figures supported on serpentine beasts and earth spirits
This hanging painting gives us some inkling of the appearance of the large palace murals mentioned in Han literature.
Name: Journey in the afterlife
Location: ceiling beam painting from the tomb of Bo Qianqiu and wife
Period: Western Han Dynasty, middle of 1st century BCE
(near Luoyang, Henan Province)

Bo Qianqiu and his wife journey into the afterlife seeking immortality from the Queen Mother of the West.
Name: Jade suit of Liu Sheng
Period: Western Han
Date: ca. 113 BCE
Medium: jade with gold thread
(Mancheng, Hebei Province)

2500 pieces of jade sewn together, believed to prevent bodily decay.
Name: Incense burner from the tomb of Liu Sheng
Period: Western Han
Date: ca. 113 BCE
Medium: bronze with inlaid gold
(Mancheng, Hebei Province)

The gold inlaid bronze censer with its pierced lid of mountain inhabited by birds, animals, and huntsmen surely embodies aristocratic taste for elegant technique, sophisticated representation, and knowing symbolism. Smoke from incense burner creates a fog, the way real mountains do.
Name: Sculpture of a horse trampling a barbarian from the tumulus of Huo Qubing
Period: Western Han
Date: ca. 117 BCE
Medium: stone
(Shaanxi Province)

Large, formal sculptural monuments like these use crude naturalism with occasional memories of the late Animal style. The sculpture of a horse with an incidental figure of a man at this tomb is slightly contained within the stone block. The direct realism of the horse is modified by more formal considerations. The ribs of the man and the muscles of the horse's legs are indicated by grooving rather than by modeling and relief.
Name: Que gate towers and chimera
Period: Eastern Han
Date: 209 CE
Medium: sandstone
(from the graveyard of Gao Yi, Sichuan Province)
Title: Seated Buddha
Location: Binyang Cave at Longmen Caves
Time Period: N. Wei, ca. 523(Henan Province)
Title: Buddhas of the present and past (Shakyamuni and Prabhutaratna, from the Lotus Sutra)
Time Period: N. Wei, 518 CE
Medium: gilt bronze

Altar piece represents the meeting of the two Buddhas, Shakyamuni, the historical Buddha, and Prabhutaratna. The story of the scene is related in the lotus sutra. The Shakyamuni, seated on the vulture peak, had begun to expound the Buddhist law as it is presented in the lotus sutra.
Title: Buddhist stele
Time Period: Northern and Southern Dynasties
Date: 554 CE
Medium: grey limestone

One element of style, the waterfall drapery, is here somewhat decadently executed. The figure of angels and demons and lions are carved in fully Chinese rhythmical style. The tablet is simple divided into registers and these are in turn divided into niches for figures, an arrangement by no means always symmetrical. The lower registers display Chinese motifs: a donor, horses, and chimeras or lions. The execution of landscape elements in this stone relief was particularly significant in the development of Chinese paintings.
Title: Preaching Buddha
Location: Mogao Cave 249
Time Period: Northern Wei Dynasty, 5th century
(Dunhuang, Gansu Province)

Influance of Central Asia. These seem even more archaic than the sculptures, even to the point of caricature, though now the effect of oxidation and deterioration of pigments. Still, the artist has invested these figures with an almost frantic energy in his attempts to deal with such problems as the concept of modeling by light and shade. The result is more linear and energetic.
Title: Hungry Tigress jataka tale
Location: Mogao Cave 428
Time Period: Northern Zhou
Date: ca. 550-575 CE
(Dunhuang, Gansu Province)

Buddha in his previous life throws himself to the tigers in order to feed them (shows he is self-sacrificing).
Title: Manifestations of Guanyin
Location: Mogao Cave 45
Time Period: Tang Dynasty, 8th century
(Dunhuang, Gansu Province)
Title: Plan and view of Qianling, mausoleum of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu
Time Period: Tang Dynasty
Date: ca. 683 CE
(Shaanxi Province)
Title: Great Buddha
Location: Fengxian Temple at Longmen Caves
Time Period: Tang Dynasty
Date: completed ca. 675 CE
(Henan Province)

The supreme Buddha, flanked by disciples, bodhisattvas, and guardians is about 44 ft tall and opposing full bodies figures and skillfully and sensitively carved despite their colossal size. Empress Wu contributed a lot of money.
Title: Tang officials and foreign emissaries
Location: tomb of Prince Zhuanghuai
Time Period: Tang Dynasty
Date: ca. 706-711 CE
(Shaanxi Province)
Title: Flask with dancing horse
Time Period: Tang Dynasty 8th century
Medium: silver with repoussé gilt decoration

THe shape of the vessel echoes a leather flask carried by Turkic peoples of central Asia. In technique it refelcts the silverworking tradition of Sasanian Iran; while gracefully maintaining the pose most unnatural to horses, the horse is holding between his teeth a footed wine cup. Tang texts record horses from the emperor's vast stables who were trained to dance while holding and occasionally drinking from cups of wine.
Title: Musicians and entertainers on a camel
Time Period: Tang Dynasty,
Medium: sancai-glazed stoneware
Artist: Yan Liben
Title: Emperors of the Successive Dynasties
Time Period: Tang Dynasty
7th century (11th century copy)
Type: handscroll
Medium: ink and color on silk
Artist: Wu Daozi
Title: Flying Demon
Medium: ink rubbing from a stone engraving
Time Period: Tang Dynasty, 8th century
(Hebei Province)
Artist: Zhou Fang
Title: Court Ladies Wearing Flowered Headdresses
Time Period: Tang Dynasty, 8th century
Type: handscroll
Medium: ink and color on silk
Artist: Li Zhaodao
Title: Emperor Minghuang’s Journey into Shu
Period:Tang Dynasty, 7th century (10th-11th century copy)
Type: hanging scroll
Medium: ink and color on silk
Artist: Dong Yuan
Title: Xiao and Xiang Rivers
Period: Ten Kingdoms Period
first half of 10th century
Type: handscroll
Medium: ink and color on silk
Artist: Fan Kuan
Title: Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
Period: Northern Song Dynasty
ca. 1000
Type: hanging scroll
Medium: ink on silk
Artist: Su Shi
Title: Withered Tree and Strange Rock
Period: N. Song
late 11th century
Type: handscroll
Medium: ink on Paper
Anonymous
Title: Peonies and Cat
Period: N. Song, 12th century
Type: hanging scroll
Medium: ink and color on silk
Artist: Zhang Zeduan
Title: section of Spring Festival along the River
Period: Northern Song
11th-12th century
Type: Handscroll
Medium: ink and colors on silk
Artist: Ma Yuan
Title: Drinking in the Moonlight
Period: S. Song
late 12th-early 13th century
Type: hanging
Medium: ink and light color on silk
Artist: Liang Kai
Title: The Sixth Chan Patriarch Chopping Bamboo
Period: S. Song
early 13th century
Type: hanging scroll
Medium: ink on paper
Artist: Yujian
Title: Mountain Market in Clearing Mist
Period: S. Song
mid-13th century
Type: hanging scroll
Medium: ink on paper
Anon.
Title: Portrait of Wuzhun Shifan
Period: S. Song
Date: 1238
Type: hanging scroll
Medium: ink and color on silk
Artist: Ren Renfa
Title: Lean and Fat Horses
Period: Yuan Dynasty,
late 13th-early 14th century
Type: handscroll
Medium: ink and colors on silk
Artist: Zhao Mengfu
Title: Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains
Period:Yuan Dynasty
Date: 1296
Type: handscroll
Medium: ink and color on paper(painted for Zhao Mengfu’s friend Zhou Mi)
Artist: Shen Zhou
Title: Lofty Mount Lu
Period: Ming Dynasty
Date: 1467
Type: hanging scroll
Medium: ink and color on paper
Artist: Dai Jin
Title: The Hermit Xu You Resting by a Stream
Period: Ming Dynasty
Type: hanging scroll
Medium: ink and color on silk

Depicts a legendary Confucian worthy famous for his refusal of the throne and of high office, resting beneath a Ma Yuan-type pine tree in a very strongly of brushed vertical landscape. the interweaving of brush strokes and images produces powerful and decorative forms in a somewhat flattened space-particularly well suited to Confucian iconography meant to be seen at a distance in a somewhat formal setting.
Artist: Dong Qichang
Title: The Qingbian Mountains
Period: MingDynasty
Date: 1617
Type: hanging scroll
Medium: ink on paper
Title: Aerial view and plan of the Forbidden City
Place: Beijing Built in 1406 (Ming Dynasty)
Date: rebuilt in mid-17th century (Qing Dynasty)
(for reference only)
Title: Lodge of Retiring from Hard Work (Repose and Longevity Palace Complex)
Period: Qing Dynasty
18th century
Location: Forbidden City, Beijing
Artist: Wang Meng
Title: Dwelling in Reclusion in the Qingbian Mountains
Period: Yuan Dynasty
Date:1366
Type: hanging scroll

Considered the most monumental of all of Yuan landscapes, the combination of rich brushwork, undulating contours, grand scale, and size is unforgettable. Wang Ming is recognized as one of the giants of the Wenren tradition.
Medium ink on paper
Title: Queen Mother of the West and King Father of the East
Location: Wu Liang Shrine
Period: E. Han
mid-2nd century CE
Medium: ink rubbing from stone slabs
(Shandong Province)
Title: Story of the Righteous Stepmother of Qi
Location: Wu Liang Shrine
Period: E. Han
mid-2nd century CE
Medium: ink rubbing from stone slabs
(Shandong Province)
Title: Seated Buddha
Date: ca. 300 CE
Medium: gilt bronze
Map of Northern Wei territory (for reference)
Title: Colossal Buddha
Location: Yungang Cave 20
Period: N. Wei
Date: ca. 460-480 CE
(Shanxi Province)

Carved into living rock. Drapery is derived from Bamiyan string patterns and the face shows traces of Gandhara style.
Title: Bodhisattva and disciples
Location: Yungang Cave 18
Period: N. Wei
Date: ca. 460-480 CE
(Shanxi Province)
Title: Seated Buddha in central pillar of Yungang Cave 6
Period: N. Wei
Date: completed 494
(Shanxi Province)
Map of China (for reference)
Title: Basin
Period: Yangshao culture
(Banpo phase)
Date: 5th millennium BCE
Medium: earthenware with slip

Painted with black-on-red designs of geometric figures, human masks, fish, and occasionally animals.
Title: Jar
Period: Yangshao culture, (Machang phase)
Date: late 3rd millennium BCE
Medium: earthenware with slip

Raised figure on jar. If female, would mean matriarchal society, male patriarchal, androgenous might mean unity of the sexes.
Title: Jar
Period: Longshan culture
Date: 3rd millennium BCE
Medium: “eggshell” ware
Title: Pig-dragon
Period: Hongshan culture
Date: 4th millennium BCE
Medium: jade
Title: Cong tube
Period: Liangzhu culture
Date: 3rd millennium BCE
Medium: jade

From imported jade boulders large rectangular prisms with cylindrical inner surfaces (cong) were carved, then decorated with rectilinear patterns. These were further embellished with engraved interlace spirals and circles, often defining eye, nose and mouth "masks" which were to become major elements in the Shang iconographic vocabulary
Title: Ritual vessel
Period: Shang Dynasty, (Erligang phase)
Date: 15th-14th centuries BCE
Medium: bronze
Title: Ritual vessel
Period: Shang Dynasty, (Anyang period)
Date: ca. 1200 BCE
Medium: bronze
Location: (from Fu Hao’s tomb)
Title: Ritual vessel
Period: Shang Dynasty, (Anyang period)
Date: first half of the 11th century BCE
Medium: bronze

A very complicated vessel in the form of a bear or a tiger squatting on its haunches, with its tail used as a third support, and surmounted by a deer on its head. Clutched in the forelegs and maw of the beast is the figure of a man with his head turned sideways. Whether this is a representation of the perils of the hunt or whether this is a representation, of the eclipsing sun as devourer, depends largely on one's disposition to believe in the universality of these myths
Title: Ritual vessel
Period: ate Shang Dynasty
Medium: bronze
Location: (excavated in Ningxiang County, Hunan Province)
Title: Standing figure from Sanxingdui
Date: ca. 1200-1000 BCE
Medium: bronze
(Sichuan Province)

Life-sized standing figures of totemic or shamanistic type. The cast designs on their costumes include masks and animals clearly related to the designs on jades and bronzes.
Title: Water basin and wine vessel from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng E. Zhou
(Warring States Period)
Date: early 5th century BCE
Medium: bronze
Title: Set of chime-bells from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng
E. Zhou
(Warring States period)
Date: early 5th century BCE
Medium: bronze and lacquered wood

Each bell could sound two different notes, one if struck at the side, the other at the center. Their shapes were increasingly refined and their subtle elliptical cross sections carefully calculated to produce precisely the desired tones. Currently the most famous of such bells are the sixty-five buried in the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng still suspended from their frame. This group was assembled from at least three different carillons, and includes a single bo bell unrelated to either.
Title: Vessel
Period: E. Zhou
Date: late 6th-5th centuries BCE
Medium: bronze with lost inlay
Title: Terracotta soldiers from the mortuary complex of the First Emperor of Qin
Period: Qin Dynasty
Date: ca. 210 BCE
Medium: earthenware
(Shaanxi Province)

> 7000 life-sized gray clay figures of warriors and horses found in military position guarding the tomb of Qin Shi Huang Di
axe-cut stroke
Ex: Li Tang, Ma Yaun, Xia Gui
Ma-Xia style
...
Ch. Chan / J. Zen / Skt. Dhyana
...
Bodhidharma
Mt. Song
Shaolin Monastery
Loess clay
a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind
Earthenware
ceramic ware made of slightly porous opaque clay fired at low heat
Stoneware
a strong opaque ceramic ware that is high-fired, well vitrified
Slip
water down clay with color

a clay solution of creamy consistency for coating or decorating biscuit
Pig-dragon
named To describe the object
Coil body suggest dragon
Nose suggest pig
Bi Disk
Large flat slat with a hole in the middle
Heavy so not warn as personal ornaments
Cong tube
Tube with a square cross section
Found in burials arranger around the deceased
Yin
Last capital city of the Shang Dynasty
Taotie mask
Decorative motives with no meaning or symbolic religious icon ??
Restricted for ritual uses
Animal like or represented real animals ??
Pottery-Shaping Techniques
Slab-forming
coiling
wheel-throwing
Nephrite
Type of jade
piece mold
Clay pressed into a mold until hardened to create an object
Lost wax casting
Bronze cast created - hot wax is poured into the cast and hardens to create the desired object
inlay
Fitting a solid colored substance into the cavity of a piece.
Relief/intaglio
print-making
taotie mask
monster mask commonly found bronze Chinese ritual vessels
leiwen pattern
pattern found on Chinese vessels
Yin
the last capital city of the Shang Dynasty
Sanxingdui
Bronze Age archaeological site in China
mingqi
spirit artifacts
Tuoba
a clan of Xianbei people from the early centuries of the first millenia CE
samsara
sanskrit - rebirth
karma
the idea that what you do in life will affect your rebirth and next life
Yungang Caves
Ancient Buddhist Chinese temples famous for their rock-cut architecture
Longmen Caves
Buddhist temples spread out on two mountains, separated by the Yi River
Vairocana Buddha
cosmic Buddha
stupa
place of Buddhist prayer
pagoda
tiered tower with multiple eaves
stele
an upright stone or slab with an inscribed or sculptured surface
Mogao Caves
Caves of a Thousand Buddhas
bodhisattva
teacher who refrains from entering Nirvana in order to teach others how to do so
apsaras
super-naturally beautiful women
Lotus Sutra
a discourse by the Buddha before the end of his life
Universal Gateway Chapter
Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra
expedient means
upaya, like a goal, brings someone up from something
sancai
three color
arhat
lohan - someone who has realized Nirvana and will not be reborn
hanging scroll
vertical scrolls
handscroll
horizontal scrolls
dian
dots
ex. Dong Yuan
cun
texture strokes
hemp-fiber strokes
ex: Dong Yuan, Juran
monumental landscape
ex: Fan Kuan, Guo Xi
shiren hua
scholar's painting or literati painting

ex. Su Shi, Wen Tong, Li Gonglin, Mi Fu, Mi Youren
baimiao
plain drawing - applies to paintings of human figures or animals

ex. Li Gonglin
Mi-dots
ex: Mi Fu, Mi Youren
boneless style
ex: Mi Fu, Mi Youren
jiehua
ruled-line painting, applies to paintings of architecture or boats

ex: Zhang Zeduan
Bodhidharma
Mt. Song, Shaolin Monastery
satori
sudden enlightenment
The Shrimp Eater
Xianzi
Guanyin (J. Kannon)
Mt. Potalaka
haboku
splashed ink

ex: Yujian
chinso
monk's portrait
yimin
leftover citizen
chaoyin
recluse at court
pingdan
plainness
Wu School
based in Suzhou - Shen Zhou
Zhe School
based in Zhejiang Province - Dai Jin
Four Great Masters of the Yuan Dynasty
Huang Gongwang
Ni Zan
Wu Zhen
Wang Meng