Poem in Chinese about Sugar

The text inscribed on this album leaf is a poem on plum blossoms; the poem is inscribed in seven columns, the columns varying in placement, in numbers of characters, and thus in le...

The manuscript opens with a faded ink drawing of a seated bearded man holding prayer beads in a landscape. The drawing is water damaged, and the inscription attributing the work to...

Painted in ink and light colors on paper, this rectangular album leaf depicts an autumnal landscape with a scholar seated in a riverside pavilion. Set on stilts that elevate it abo...

Painted by Wang Jiqian ( better known in the West as C. C. Wang; 1907-2003), this wall scroll represents a mountain landscape. The tall mountain that rises along the painting's cen...

The manuscript opens with two facing illuminated pages marked by cartouches in the center and filled with inscriptions in Arabic about the Qur'an. The surrounding areas are decorat...

This long handscroll comprises a four-character frontispiece, a landscape painted in ink and color on silk, and a poem written in ink on paper in running script ("xingshu"). Both t...