Seated Chinese

Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block; pages of off-white wove paper, each 27.2 x 20.8 cm. Drawings made in graphite and in vertical orientation...

Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block. Pages of white wove paper, each 34.7 x 27.1 cm. Pages numbered at l.l. of verso in graphite. Drawings i...

Sketchbook with beige-fabric-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block. Pages of off-white wove paper, 37 x 31.2 cm. Pages numbered in graphite at l.l. of verso. Drawings mostl...

The recto and verso sides of this folio feature lines of prose written in in the Prakrit language in Devanagari script and black ink. The blank square at the center of the page con...

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...

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...

Sketchbook with blue-and-white marbled cardboard covers. Black fabric tape at spine. Sewn page block; sheets perforated for removal. Pages of off-white wove paper, each 36.7 x 2...

Dong Shouping (1904-1997) painted this short hanging scroll in ink and colors on paper. It depicts Mt. Emei's famous and very colorful sunrise. A mass of rocks--presumably the moun...