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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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