EditorialChinese quest for immortality. Painting and calligraphy from a large format Chinese album illustrating stories of Taoist immortals -people who sought or achieved immortality. One of 15 paintings. The text concerns a Taoist adept, Wang Qiao, a Han perio...
EditorialChinese Buddhist calligraphy. Mahaparinirvana-Sutra. China, 506. Early Chinese calligraphy from Dunhuang. Colophon, dated 29th August, 506. Buddhist text, copied at the Zhulin (Bamboo Grove) Monastery, sponsored by Qiao Liangyong on behalf of his decea...
EditorialChinese quest for immortality. Painting and calligraphy from a large format Chinese album illustrating stories of Taoist immortals -people who sought or achieved immortality. One of 15 paintings. The text concerns a Taoist adept, Wang Qiao, a Han perio...
EditorialChinese Buddhist calligraphy. Mahaparinirvana-Sutra. China, 506. Early Chinese calligraphy from Dunhuang. Colophon, dated 29th August, 506. Buddhist text, copied at the Zhulin (Bamboo Grove) Monastery, sponsored by Qiao Liangyong on behalf of his decea...
EditorialIllustration to the Second Prose Poem on the Red Cliff. Date/Period: 960 - 1127. Painting. Handscroll, ink on paper Handscroll, ink on paper. Height: 295.66 mm (11.64 in); Width: 5,663.18 mm (18.57 ft).
EditorialParinirvana (Extinction of the Buddha) and Attendant, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), dated 1503, China, Glazed pottery, H. 11 in. (27.9 cm); W. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm); D. 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm), Ceramics, Qiao Bin (Chinese, active 1481?1507), According to the insc...