Teaching Gallery: Eastern Civilization Study Objects

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Teaching Gallery: Eastern Civilization Study Objects
Teaching Gallery: Eastern Civilization Study Objects
Kris Ercums, curator
White Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Selections for Eastern Civilizations classes.

Works of art

seated Buddha in padmasana (lotus position)
circa 800s, Tang Dynasty (618–907)
tomb tile
circa 200 CE, Eastern Han dynasty (25 CE–220 CE)
possibly late Shang dynasty (circa 1600 BCE–1046 BCE)
ruyi sceptre
1800s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
ritual ladle
late Western Zhou dyanasty (circa 1120 BCE–770 BCE)
fish-shaped pendant
1200 BCE–1000 BCE, late Shang dynasty (circa 1600–1046 BCE) to early Western Zhou dynasty (circa 1120–770 BCE)
ink stone
late 1800s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
brush rest
1800s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
bowl
Song dynasty (1000s–1100s)
Fūgai Ekun (1568–1654), Daruma crossing the river
Fūgai Ekun (1568–1654)
late 1500s–early 1600s, Momoyama period (1573–1615) or Edo period (1600–1868)
Yu Shuo (1873–after 1940), seal
Yu Shuo (1873–after 1940)
late 1800s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)