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Dish with scholar and a monk in a landscape
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Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Professor and Mrs. Max Loehr in memory of Usher Parsons Coolidge
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Buddhist Monk Kŭmp’adang Seated on a Mat and Holding a Staff in His Left Hand and a Buddhist Rosary in His Right Hand
Buddhist Monk Kŭmp’adang Seated on a Mat and Holding a Staff in His Left Hand and a Buddhist Rosary in His Right Hand
Painted in ink, mineral colors, and gold leaf on coarsely woven silk, this painting represents an elderly Buddhist monk seated cross-legged on a bamboo mat decorated with geometric...
Circular Dish with Fluted Vertical Side Walls
Circular Dish with Fluted Vertical Side Walls
The steeply inclined walls of this circular, shallow dish rise from the broad, flat floor to the foliated lip. Eleven deep vertical grooves, imparted with a tool with rounded end, ...
Small Dish with Foliated Rim and with Chrysanthemum, Geometric, and Stylized-Wave Décor
Small Dish with Foliated Rim and with Chrysanthemum, Geometric, and Stylized-Wave Décor
The concave walls of this small dish rise from the broad, flat floor to the bracketed lip, which terminates in a raised edge with eight points. A stylized chrysanthemum blossom emb...
Circular Dish with Thickened Rim and Bi-Disc Footring
Circular Dish with Thickened Rim and Bi-Disc Footring
The interior of this thickly potted dish follows a continuous, parabolic curve; the exterior displays a thickened lip and a wide, straight-cut footring in the shape of a jade bi di...
Seated Chijang Posal (Chinese, Dizang Pusa; Sanskrit, Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha) Flanked by the Ten Kings of Hell, Monk Tomyŏng (Chinese, Daoming), and Three Officials
Seated Chijang Posal (Chinese, Dizang Pusa; Sanskrit, Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha) Flanked by the Ten Kings of Hell, Monk Tomyŏng (Chinese, Daoming), and Three Officials
This painting depicts Chijang Posal (Chinese, Dizang Pusa; Sanskrit, Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha) seated at the center of the composition and surrounded by the Ten Kings of Hell, Monk ...
Circular Dish with Angled Side Walls and Decoration of Two Fish in a Lotus Pond
Circular Dish with Angled Side Walls and Decoration of Two Fish in a Lotus Pond
This circular dish has steeply angled side walls that rise from the circular, flat base. The dish was potted over a hump mold placed at the center of the potter's wheel. The mold s...
Dish with Saz Spray Decoration
Dish with Saz Spray Decoration
The design of this dish incorporates two ingeniously painted floral sprays. Laden with blossoms, the longer stem rises up the middle, angles sharply downward, and then encircles th...
Dish with Horseman and Arabesque
Dish with Horseman and Arabesque
The off-white slip that covers this dish has been incised with a complicated design further elaborated in green, yellow, and purplish brown. An equestrian image fills the center of...