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Interweaving Cultures along the Silk Road(s)

Sherry Fowler, curator
Kate Meyer, curator

https://www.spencerart.ku.edu/virtual-exhibition/interweaving-cultures-along-silk-roads

This virtual exhibition is organized in conjunction with the symposium “Visual and Material Culture of the Silk Road(s).” It features objects from the Spencer Museum of Art that reflect historical and contemporary cultural influences related to the Silk Road, a 19th century term for the different trade routes that flourished between Europe and Asia from the 2nd century BCE to the mid-15th century.

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Works of art

textile fragment — textile fragment

1700s or 1800s, Qajar period (1794–1925)

woman's pleated wedding skirt — woman's pleated wedding skirt

1800s, Qing dynasty (1644–1912)

Coptic textile fragment — Coptic textile fragment

Coptic period (300 CE–700 CE)

Coptic textile fragment — Coptic textile fragment

Coptic period (300 CE–700 CE)

tea bowl — tea bowl

1500s, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)

covered box — covered box

1200s–1300s, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)

Kundika (water vessel) — Kundika (water vessel)

circa 1100s, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)

Kashmir shawl — Kashmir shawl

circa 1875–1899

textile fragment — textile fragment

1800s

woman's tunic (aba) — woman's tunic (aba)

1800s–early 1900s

embroidered cloth — embroidered cloth

1800s–early 1900s

sutra (in Pali) — sutra (in Pali)

late 1800s

John Rogers & Sons (active 1818–1836), plate — plate

John Rogers & Sons

1815–1842

saucer — saucer

mid 1800s

Petrus Regout (1801–1878), bowl — bowl

Petrus Regout

circa 1891–early 1900s

Worcester Porcelain Company, teapot with cover — teapot with cover

Worcester Porcelain Company

circa 1750–1780

Daoist priest's robe (jiangyi) — Daoist priest's robe (jiangyi)

late 1800s or early 1900s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Bactrian camel (tomb figure) — Bactrian camel (tomb figure)

800s, Tang dynasty (618 CE–907 CE)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), Bodaichū Kodaisō attended by the Physician Shini Andōzen — Bodaichū Kodaisō attended by the Physician Shini Andōzen

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

circa 1827–1830, Edo period (1600–1868)

Li Shan (1926–2019), Camel Riders on Tianshan — Camel Riders on Tianshan

Li Shan

1979

Shaka Triad with Sixteen Deities — Shaka Triad with Sixteen Deities

1800s, Edo period (1600–1868) or Meiji period

Amitābha (阿弥陀仏 Amida butsu; 阿弥陀如来 Amida nyorai) — Amitābha (阿弥陀仏 Amida butsu; 阿弥陀如来 Amida nyorai)

circa 1400s, Muromachi period (1338–1573)

Anne Allen (late 1700s); Jean-Baptist Pillement (1728–1808), untitled (chinoiserie design) — untitled (chinoiserie design)

Anne Allen, Jean-Baptist Pillement

circa 1796

ohi — ohi

1700s or 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)

Kanō Kazunobu (1815–1863), Shakyamuni undergoing austerities — Shakyamuni undergoing austerities

Kanō Kazunobu

mid 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)

Vairocana — Vairocana

1454, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

votive tablet (tsa-tsa) — votive tablet (tsa-tsa)

1700s–1800s

Kannon (Avalokitesvara) — Kannon (Avalokitesvara)

1300s–late 1400s, Nambokuchō period (1337–1392) to Muromachi period (1338–1573)

Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950), Tsukiyo no tajimaharu, dai shi (Moonlight at Taj Mahal No. 4) — Tsukiyo no tajimaharu, dai shi (Moonlight at Taj Mahal No. 4)

Yoshida Hiroshi

1931, Showa period (1926–1989)

Hyakuman-tō (three-tiered pagoda) — Hyakuman-tō (three-tiered pagoda)

1700s or 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)

bianhu (pilgrimage flask) with dancing monkey — bianhu (pilgrimage flask) with dancing monkey

600–700s, early Tang dynasty (618 CE–907 CE)

Godefroy Engelmann (1788–1839), Monsieur Drovetti et sa suite mesurant un fragment de colosse dans la haute Egypte (Mr. Drovetti and his followers measure a fragment of a colossus in Upper Egypt) — Monsieur Drovetti et sa suite mesurant un fragment de colosse dans la haute Egypte (Mr. Drovetti and his followers measure a fragment of a colossus in Upper Egypt)

Godefroy Engelmann

1819

unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist, indigo cloth — indigo cloth

unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist

1980

Daruma — Daruma

early 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)

unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist, wrap skirt — wrap skirt

unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist

1979

Jellal Ben Abdallah (1921–2017), Orchestre sous-marine (Underwater Orchestra) — Orchestre sous-marine (Underwater Orchestra)

Jellal Ben Abdallah

1969

Calcutta Art Studio (founded 1878), Kali — Kali

Calcutta Art Studio

circa 1890

Yoonmi Nam (born 1974), Toile — Toile

Yoonmi Nam

2012

郭汾陽行樂圖 Gwakbunyang hyangrakdo (Guo Ziyi‘s Enjoyment-of-Life Banquet Screen) — 郭汾陽行樂圖 Gwakbunyang hyangrakdo (Guo Ziyi‘s Enjoyment-of-Life Banquet Screen)

early 1800s, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)