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'Meiping' Bottle with Lotus Decor
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Department of Asian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Helen Pratt Dane
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Fat.Dingporcelain The Song Dynasty.
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BARRELS. Scaly on a small low foot edge with pressed decor in low relief. On the inside in the middle in around fields a large mussel-like lotus leaf, three lotus flower buds and s...
Meiping Bottle with Decoration of a Daoist Immortal and His Youthful Attendant in a Windswept Landscape
Meiping Bottle with Decoration of a Daoist Immortal and His Youthful Attendant in a Windswept Landscape
The walls of this elegantly shaped meiping vessel descend from the short, vertical neck, curve around the bulging shoulders, gently constrict to form the narrow waist, and then fla...
Lotuses and Birds
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Painted with ink and colored pigments on paper, this magnificent eight-panel folding screen boasts a continuous scene of a lotus pond with tall, luxuriant stalks of lotus flowers, ...
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Ren Yi (also known by his sobriquet Bonian) was born in Shangyin (modern Shaoxing), Zhejiang province. The son of a portrait painter, Ren Yi learned to paint at a young age and in ...
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This sculpture depicts a Buddha gracefully standing on a shallow lotus pedestal, the Buddha likely the Buddha Sakyamuni (the Historical Buddha) though possibly the Buddha Dipankara...
Jar with lotus petal decor (lianhua zun)
Jar with lotus petal decor (lianhua zun)
Elaborately decorated jar with trumpet-shaped mouth, cylindrical neck, ovoid body, and six loop handles at the juncture of the neck and shoulders; thick lotus-petal and five-leaf-p...
"The Former Deeds of Bodhisattva Medicine King," Chapter 23 of the Lotus Sutra (Hokekyō)
"The Former Deeds of Bodhisattva Medicine King," Chapter 23 of the Lotus Sutra (Hokekyō)
Of the numerous sutras (Buddhist texts) brought to Japan, the Lotus Sutra (Japanese: Myōhō-renge-kyō; Sanskrit: Saddharma-pundarika sutra) became the most popular and influential. ...
Lobed Circular Mirror with Decoration of Two Phoenixes and Two Lotus Plants
Lobed Circular Mirror with Decoration of Two Phoenixes and Two Lotus Plants
This eight-lobed, circular mirror has a narrow raised outer rim that is completely unembellished. This gives way to a wide inner decorative border that's slightly sunken and embel...