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Dark green slab which slopes sharply down to the right, with a dark circle at the top. Features intricate golden embellishments depicting Chinese characters surrounded by dragons above clouds.
Unknown Maker, Chinese, Lithophone. Gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Asian Art Galleries

Dark green slab which slopes sharply down to the right, with a dark circle at the top. Features intricate golden embellishments depicting Chinese characters surrounded by dragons above clouds.
Unknown Maker, Chinese, Lithophone. Gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Asian Gallery (RA 616) (Asian Sculpture); Asian Gallery (RA 601) (Buddha), Asian Art

Introduction

The Rockefeller Asian Art Gallery features devotional sculpture spanning 4,000 years from China, Japan, India, Tibet, and Thailand. Complementing these objects is a selection of Chinese mortuary works that served in burial rituals associated with Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian beliefs. The M. Ripley "Rip" Hudner Buddha Gallery is the setting for the grand Dainichi Nyorai Buddha. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Japanese Print Gallery exhibits woodblock prints, and the adjacent gallery presents Asian textiles as well as exquisitely crafted objects in jade, lacquer, ceramic, and metal.

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Exhibition images

Selected Objects

Side-view of an arched four-legged dragon with a lean body, open mouth, horned head, scaly back and a thin tail. The paint has worn into patches of browns and reds.

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Dragon, Northern Wei Dynasty

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Covered Jar, Song Dynasty

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Chimera, Southern Qi Dynasty

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Stela, Northern Wei Dynasty

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Inkstone, Qing

Unknown Maker, Chinese

One of a Pair of Wine Vessels (Jue)
Dark bronze sculpture of a figure with one leg raised and the other bent, and one arm bent upwards and the other extending across its body, surrounded by a sculpted halo.

Unknown Maker, Indian

Shiva Nataraja the King of Dance, Vijayanagar Period

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Covered Bowl
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Exhibition Checklist

Asian Art Galleries

June 10, 2014
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