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Porcelain plate with a blue and green leaf pattern and golden band around the rim. The central decoration depicts a male dressed-up figure in a dancing pose on a tiled floor below a beamed ceiling amidst a two-line Dutch inscription "Weg Gekke Cctionisten".

Plate, c. 1721/25

A work made of silk and cotton, plain weaves and silk, plain weave self-patterned by ground weft floats; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in chain, eyelet, and satin stitches; laid work and couching; collar and edge trim: silk, warp-float faced 4:1 and 6:1 satin weaves; lined with ramie, plain weave.

Vestment (For a First-degree Taoist Priest), Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1850/1900

Han-Chinese

A work made of limestone with traces of polychromy.

Bodhisattva, Tang dynasty (618–906), c. 725/50

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; ink outlines; embroidered in back, cross, eyelet, fly, knot, single satin, satin, split, and stem stitches; couching.

Embroidered Trimmings for a Woman's Ao (Short Coat), Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1875–1900

Han-Chinese

A work made of engraving on paper.

A Chinese Face, n.d.

John Copley

A work made of earthenware with underglaze molded decoration and green lead glaze.

Storage Jar (Hu) with Hunting Scenes, Eastern Han dynasty (A.D. 25–220)

A work made of gauze; embroidered.

Woman's Sleeve Band, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1875/1900

Han-Chinese

A work made of earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes.

Camel and Rider, Tang dynasty (618–907), first half of 8th century

Porcelain white plate decorated with floral sprays on the rim and a central panel depicting colorful scene of a Dutch harbor with two little boats on the foreground.

Soup Bowl, c. 1750

A work made of porcelain with ox blood (langyao) glaze.

Bottle-Shaped Vase, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Double-walled porcelain tea bowl and saucer decorated with four reserve panels with a cock, goldfish, bird and two deers in polychrome and gold. The saucer is decorated in the center with a floral cluster with three floral sprays.

Tea Bowl and Saucer, c. 1780

Long scroll ink painting depicting people with their animals and belongings crossing a river.

Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) 元朝

A work made of body: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped wild silk in laid work and couching; neck, front, hem, sides and sleeves: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk wrapped cotton in knot, satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching; edged with silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; sleeve bands: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in knot, satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching; three ribbons: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, plain weave self-patterned by main warp floats (narrowest has gold-leaf-over-lacquered-strip-wrapped silk); lined with silk, plain weave.

Woman's Surcoat, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1860/90

Han-Chinese

A work made of hard-paste porcelain with enamel and gilding.

Tea Caddy with Cover, c. 1750

Chinese export porcelain

A work made of bronze.

Suspension Bell (Bo) 东周时期青铜镈, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 B.C.), first half of 5th century B.C.

A work made of limestone with traces of polychromy.

Bodhisattva, Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907), c. 725/50

A work made of multi-block woodcut printed with oil-based ink.

Autumn Grace (Qiu de Fengcai), 1998

Chao Mei

Pencil drawing of three-story community center with rectangular windows and minimal landscaping. Chinese characters are drawn above the door.

Chinese American Service Center, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective Rendering, 2001

Jeanne Gang

A color woodblock print with a large blue lake in the midground and a man crossing a bridge over a stream in the foreground, green grasses a plants throughout

A Peasant Crossing a Bridge, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poems, late 1830s

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of gilt copper alloy with traces of pigment (lapis lazuli).

Green Tara, Seated in Pose of Royal Ease (Lalitasana), with Lotus Stalks on Right Shoulder and Hands in Gestures of Reasoning (Vitarkamudra) and Gift Conferring (Varadamudra), Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Yongle reign mark and period (1403–24)

Sino Tibetan

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