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An offering stand made of three pieces of glazed and decorated stoneware luted together to form a whole. The base is pierced with scalloped designs outlined in blue lines and blue floral sprays inside each scallop.  A lappet collar surrounds the top. The middle piece is decorated with floral motifs and the upper plate has floral designs and sacred Buddhist symbols. The underside of the plate is also decorated with blue floral designs.

Offering Stand (Qua Bong) with Gold Ingot, Coin, Peony and Ruyi Cloud Motifs

  • Vietnam
  • stoneware with underglaze blue cobalt decoration
A squat image of seated Ganesha carved in the round. Holding a laddhu sweet in proper left and and radish/tusk in proper right hand. Wearing ornamental crown, necklaces, brestband, armlets, braclets and anklets.

Seated Two-Armed Ganesha, God of Success and Abundance

  • Cambodia, Khmer, Buriram province
  • sandstone

Suigetsu (Intoxicated by the Moon)

  • Sen no Rikyu
  • ink on paper
This jar was made in two halves, as evidenced from the groove in the center where the two pieces were joined. The jar was then decorated with a freely drawn dragon then fired. The numerous imperfections in the clay body are typical of 17th century pieces and in the Korean mind give character to each jar. Likewise, the brown painting displays subtle gradations and variations in texture that enliven the picture of the dragon.

Moon Jar with Dragon Motifs in Iron Red

  • Korea
  • porcelain with underglaze iron red
Glazed stoneware dish with figures in a landscape surrounded by a band of scalloped lotus petals and a diaper pattern on a scalloped rim, all painted in underglaze cobalt oxide and enamel colors.

Large Plate (Charger) Decorated with Two Figures in a Mountanous Landscape

  • Vietnam
  • glazed stoneware with underglaze cobalt oxide and enamel colors

Standing Buddha

  • Korea
  • cast bronze with mercury gilding

Parrots Among Peonies Carved Lacquer Plate

  • China
  • lacquer and hemp over wood base
Sakyamuni seated in meditation right before his Enlightenment

The Ascetic Sakyamuni

  • China
  • wood, fabric, lacquer, and pigment

Swollen Shoulder Jar (Meiping) with Dragon and Cloud Motif

  • Vietnam
  • glazed stoneware

Kasuga Shika Mandala

  • Japan
  • ink, color, and gold on silk
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