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- Title
- Orchid and Colophon
- Artist
- Shitao (Shih-t'ao)
- Physical Description
- The painting depicts an orchid on the left, with calligraphical texts on the right-hand half. Paper is faded, and ink is black.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1642-1707
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1644-1707
- Accession Number
- 1955/2.12
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Figures from Chinese History: Zhang Tianqi Calling in the Cranes
- Artist
- Huang Shen
- Physical Description
- Paper mounted on aqua silk. There are two figures present, and a large crane (bird). The central figure, Zhang Tiangi, has his arms uplifted, while a less important figure is depicted with his back to the viewer and is slightly hunched over. There is a crane with a red crown behind these two figures. The colors are muted. There is calligraphy in the upper left hand corner of the painting, complete with two red seals.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1687-1766
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1687-1766
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.158
- Medium and Support
- album leaf, ink and color on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina venerated by a monk and a lay devotee from Digambara Jain Manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- A man reclines on a carpet or cloth, and looks up at two figures above him. On the right, a deity sits cross-legged on a pedestal with a canopy over its head. To the left, another figure faces the deity, also on a pedestal carpet. He appears to be naked, and raises his in gesture towards the deity. A metal lamp or ewer rests below him, on what appears to be an abstract mountain, on which the reclining man also lies. He holds what may be prayer beads, and wears robes with stripes and his covered head rests on a pillow.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.163
- Medium and Support
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Scholar in a Landscape
- Artist
- Lan Ying
- Physical Description
- A vertical painting with signature on the right side. Colors primarily include gray and faded browns/oranges. Paper is faded yellow color.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1585- after 1664
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 17th century - mid 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.19
- Medium and Support
- album leaf, ink and color on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Cicada on a Willow Branch
- Artist
- Zhang Wendao (Chang Wen-tao)
- Physical Description
- A cicada perches on a willow branch.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1764-1814
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1805
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.132A
- Medium and Support
- fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on mica-coated paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina and a devotee from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- Nude (Jina, center) and a devotees (nude on left, and other clothed figures) depicted in a folio of a Jain manuscript.
- The image contains trees, lotus flowers and dark clouds. The the colors are composed of vivid reds, browns, yellows, greens and blues. The image is surrounded by a red and green pattereed border which resembles a chain.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.174
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina venerated by a monk, Harihara, Garuda, and Nandi from Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- A nude monk on the top left sits before a Jina at top right. Three Hindu gods, Harihara, Garuda, and Nandi venerate the Jina in the bottom registers.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.164
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Sailing under the Moonlight
- Artist
- Liu Yuanqi (Liu Yüan-ch'i)
- Physical Description
- Landscape painting album with a poem on the left leaf inscribed by artist Ge Yingdian. The landscape depicts a pagoda and houses in a lush forest near a creak under the misty moon light.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1555 - after 1632
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1555-1632
- Accession Number
- 1966/1.91
- Medium and Support
- album leaf, ink and color on silk
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina and devotees from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- Nude Jina sitting on altar-like structure in center of image. The "altar" is sitting on a lotus flower. There are devotees on all four sides of Jina, a total of five persons. The devotee at the left is also nude. There are red and yellow flags, and various flowers scattered all over the image. There is a red and green border. The colors present are vivid reds, greens, yellows and deep blues.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.175
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and monk with Lakshmi-Narayana & Ardhanarishvara (fol. No. 42)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- This work is painted in tones of red, green, dark blue, and orange/gold, against a light background. At the top is a sun with a many rays and a human face. Below this are two seated figures who are unclothed. They are seated on thrones decorated with colorful designs. One has reddish skin and is shown in profile, looking at the sun with hands raised. The other has orange skin and is seated in a lotus posiiton, facing front. Below them is a scene that shows two figures, a woman and a blue-skinned man, turned toward a half-man, half-woman figure who is seated on a tiger rug. These figures are dressed in colorful clothing and adorned with jewelry and hold various objects in their hands.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.166
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Crabs
- Artist
- Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)
- Physical Description
- The painting depicts two crabs with aquatic plants. The artist signed his pen name, Qi Huang, and sealed another pen name, Wood Hermit.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1864-1957
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1864-1949
- Accession Number
- 1949/1.199
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Descent of the River Ganges
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Central India, Bundelkhand
- Physical Description
- In this intensely lyrical painting from Bundelkhand in Central India, the great river is shown tumbling from the night sky. Ascetics sit cross-legged on the mountainside, offering their austerities to Shiva, while women come to venerate Ganga. The river teems with life—crocodiles, turtles, fish, and birds—while lions, leopards, jackals, monkeys, and rabbits cavort on its banks.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1775
- Accession Number
- 1979/1.148
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina venerated by a monk and a royal devotee
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- This is a brightly colored painting on a light background. It depicts a three- tiered scene with several figures, standing and kneeling, looking toward a central seated figure in the top tier. This male figure is seated in lotus position on a throne, decorated with colorful designs. To his left and right are attendants who fan him. In the middle tier, there is a nude man with long hair, a kneeling woman and a figure who is half-man and half-serpent. In the bottom tier, there are two kneeling men, wearing robes and headdresses, with hands pressed together and eyes gazing upward toward the main figure. They are surrounded by a tiger, a bird, an insect and a serpent.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.167
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Shrimps
- Artist
- Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)
- Physical Description
- Blank background. The painting depicts four lobsters, with calligraphic texts and seal on the right edge of the painting.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1864 - 1957)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1931
- Accession Number
- 1949/1.200
- Medium and Support
- ink on rice paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Boating on a River in Autumn
- Artist
- Chen Huan (Ch'en Huan)
- Physical Description
- A lone boatman appears from behing the rocks, looking forward. Above him and slightl foregrounded arches a tree, and behind him lay a series of trees and rocks. Black dots are used to accent the rocks, and repeating patterns indicate leaves on trees. Red seals are in the lower left and lower right corners, and a third is at the end of the block of calligraphic text at top right.
- Artist Life Dates
- early 17th century
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1596
- Accession Number
- 1976/1.224
- Medium and Support
- album leaf matted to frame, ink on gold paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- The Sixth Night Vigil from a Kalpasutra manuscript (fol. no. 38v), depicting two pairs of queens
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- A scene in the life of Mahavira. The composition is designated a narrow strip near the left, while the rest of the page is used for text and red circles. The illustration is divided into two registers, with depictions of two women in each. The infant Mahavira is seen in his mother’s arms, at the upper left.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1478
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.162
- Medium and Support
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and battle scene
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- Worshippers gather and seem to celebrate around a sky-clad (nude) Jina and monk at top center. Flanking these figures are two searted drummers. In the lower register men on horseback and elephant look up to them as the ride by and raise their weapons in battle. A trumpeter sounds his instrument in the bottom left.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.168
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Grasshopper
- Artist
- Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)
- Physical Description
- The painting depicts a grasshopper resting on the leaves. The artist signed his pen name, A-chih, and sealed his pen names, Pai-shih mountain hermit, and Pai-shih hermit.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1864 - 1957)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920-1935
- Accession Number
- 1949/1.201
- Medium and Support
- ink on rice paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Mountain Freshet, Wind and Rain
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- A fan mounted as an album leaf. Writing on the mounting is an identification statement of the Song dynasty fan painting. The landscape depicted trees growing from rocks at the lake shore. The waves are whipping the shore due to a rain storm.
- Century
- 13th century
- Object Creation Date
- 13th century
- Accession Number
- 1988/2.28
- Medium and Support
- fan mounted as album leaf, ink and light color on silk
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Kalpasutra manuscript, leaf: A Jaina monk (fol. no. 2r)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- Leaf from a Kalpasutra manuscript with calligraphic text. Font size varies, and in the center of the leaf text wraps around a blank box of parchment with a red dot in the center. To the left of this main text block is a colorful illustration of an enthroned figure in a dotted robe flanked by devotees. Surrounding him are various auspicious symbols.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 15th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.247
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina venerated by a community of laymen
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- Eight worshippers sit to the right of a sky-clad (nude) Jina and monk. They each raise beads in their hands. Below them a struggle is depicted. Two men in shorts wrestle, while a snake, tiger, and elephant rera up beside a fire.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.169
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Duck
- Artist
- Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)
- Physical Description
- Blank background. On the right half of the painting, there is a duck and a few plant leaves. The artist signed his pen name, "Host of the Eight-inkstone Mansion," with seal on the right edge of the painting.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1864 - 1957)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1930
- Accession Number
- 1949/1.202
- Medium and Support
- ink on rice paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Butterflies and Peach Blossoms
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1832
- Accession Number
- 1980/1.220A
- Medium and Support
- fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Shiva and his family
- Artist
- India, Punjab Hills, Kangra School
- Physical Description
- In this idyllic scene, the goddess Parvati offers her husband Shiva a drink, as they enjoy a quiet moment together. Their children, the elephant-headed Ganesha and Skanda, play inside a tent made from the hide of an elephant demon that Shiva had slain. Both parents are clothed in animal skins, the garb of mountain-dwelling ascetics, while Shiva is further adorned with a long necklace of skulls and a snake.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1790-1800
- Accession Number
- 1942.4
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina venerated by a monk, men and women, a naga, and animals from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- A Jina is encircled by a giant halo of ref, green, blue, gold, and white. Within the halo are different creatures, including a tiger, bird, naga, and devotees. The Jina sits nude on a throne with his legs crossed and hands together. Above him are clouds in the sky, and below a monk and devotees.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.170
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- The Happy Life of Fishermen
- Artist
- Qian Gong (Ch'ien Kung)
- Physical Description
- A group of fishermen and families sit in reeds, resting, playing, drinking, eating, and chatting. Birds fly in the backgrounf, and the reeds bend under the wind. At top center is calligraphic text.
- Artist Life Dates
- (active Suzhou, ca. 1573 - ca. 1620)
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1610
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.29
- Medium and Support
- fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on gold paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Bird on a branch
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- A bird (probably a sparrow) perches among peach blossoms, while singing to welcome the spring.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1420 - circa 1435
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.353
- Medium and Support
- album leaf, ink and colors on silk
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Krishna massaging the feet of Radha (a scene from the Gita Govinda?)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Punjab Hills, Mankot School
- Physical Description
- Bold colors depict Krishna, one of human manifestations of the Hindu god Vishnu, is seated with a woman, Radha, above him. He touches her leg, and the tips of her hands and feet glow red. She sits erect and holds a large flower, looking straight off the left edge of the picture. The two are framed in an architectural structure.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1730
- Accession Number
- 1979/1.160
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and beetle thorax casings on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina venerated by a monk, layman, and cobras
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- A naked Jina sits on a throne with a naked monk to his left offering praise. A devotee sits in a lotus pond that is surrounded by flames, yet his face appears serene ans he holds his rosary. Two cobras appear next to the flames, with a three in the background.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.171
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Peach Blossom Spring
- Artist
- Qiu Ying (Ch'iu Ying)
- Physical Description
- In this fan painting mounted as an album leaf, a fishing boat is moored at shore. Water stretches to the right, and above it calligraphic text recounting the story of Peach Blossom Spring. To the left of the boat, are green riverbanks, blossoming peach trees, and a man in a small cave.
- Artist Life Dates
- c.1495-1552
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1542
- Accession Number
- 1976/1.212
- Medium and Support
- ink and color on gold paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Priest Celebrating a Mass (Leaf from the Tarleton Hours)
- Artist
- Anonymous French (Normandy)
- Physical Description
- This page of an illuminated manuscript on thin parchment is vertically oriented. Centered in the upper two-thirds of the page is a window-shaped scene of a priest celebrating mass. The priest, with red and white robes and a tonsure, holds up a communion wafer at an altar that has a bible and a communion goblet on it and an image of two figures with halos behind them. The altar and the priest’s robes are trimmed with gold leaf. Behind the priest are two kneeling figures, a man and a woman. They are in the interior of a gothic church, with stone vaulting above them. Below the scene are four lines of calligraphy with the first letter, a ‘D’, highly decorated. Decorative detailing surrounds the text and the scene. The left side consists of an ivy-like plant growing out of the "D", and the bottom and right sides have different foliate-derived design depicted in ink, tempera and gold.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1430
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.43
- Medium and Support
- ink, tempera and gold on thin parchment
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Dipak Raga from Ragamala series
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Bundi-Kotah School
- Physical Description
- Two lovers sit in an elaborate, symmetrical marble palace, decorated with inlaid stone and a domed roof. Inside, a highly individualized prince sits near his lover and caresses her chin. Above the scene is a box containing calligraphic text.
- Century
- late 18th-early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1800
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.134
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and devotees
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- Multi-colored ink on paper. Prominent reds, yellows and blues. Six figures, three smaller (clothed), three larger (nude or semi-nude). Scene of worship.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.176
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Kuang-lu
- Artist
- Shao Mi
- Artist Life Dates
- 1620 - 1660
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1620-1642
- Accession Number
- 1966/1.92
- Medium and Support
- album leaf, ink and color on silk
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Scholar's Winter Retreat
- Artist
- Gai Qi (Kai Ch'i)
- Physical Description
- A scholar sits in a relaxed posture at his desk looking at cut plum blossoms in a white vase; before him is an empty sheet of paper and ink stone, and by his side an attendant is boiling water for tea. A crane tucks her head and leg to keep herself warm in the cold winter air. The scholar seems to be contemplating a subject to be drawn or written, perhaps related to the flowers.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1774 - 1829)
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1820
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.133
- Medium and Support
- fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Lady meeting her lover from the Rasamanjari of Bhanudatta series
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
- Physical Description
- Brightly colored painting with three primary registers. The uppermost and smallest register contains a poem. The lower two are larger and similar in size. The bottommost depicts stairs, architectural structures, snakes, and flowering plants. Above, the middle register frames a seated man under a canopy-like architectural form, who reaches out to grasp the wrist of a woman. Behind her is a flowering tree, and and the far right, and open door.
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1630
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.242
- Medium and Support
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and devotees
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- Multi-colored ink on paper. Reds and golds make up the primary focus colors and are accented by dark blues. Features five figures, two larger figures on the top half of the page and three smaller figures on the bottom. Scene of worship.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.177
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- The Seven Sages Passing Through a Gate
- Artist
- Sheng Maojun (Sheng Mao-chün)
- Physical Description
- A temple lies in the not-so-distant background of tree and mountains. Travellors weave their way along the path, some on horseback. They have their heads covered--some with cloth and some with hats.
- Artist Life Dates
- act. 1600-1645
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1990/2.1
- Medium and Support
- fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and light color on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Figures from Chinese History: The Taoist Luo Gongyuan
- Artist
- Huang Shen
- Physical Description
- Paper mounted on aqua silk. There are three figures present in the image. The focal point is a cart full of fruit. There is calligraphy on the upper left hand side of the image, complete with two red seals. There is a Christies sticker on the bottom left corner of the mounting.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1687-1766
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1687-1766
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.157
- Medium and Support
- album leaf, ink and color on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Bilvamangala series: Krishna Venerated by People and Animals (fol. no. 8)
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
- Physical Description
- Ink, watercolor and gold on paper. Central figure, Vishnu with devotees on his right and left. Male figures are located on the left side of Vishnu and the female figures on the right. The animals are depicted on the lower half of the portrait which goes with traditional hierarchical beliefs. The tiger is on the left and the elephant on the right.
- Century
- late 17th - early 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1700
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.111
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Day Lily, one of a pair of album leaves
- Artist
- Jin Nong (Chin Nung)
- Physical Description
- Ink on paper. Foliage and calligraphy.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1687 - 1764
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1754-1756
- Accession Number
- 1996/2.29
- Medium and Support
- album leaf, ink and color on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000