Interweaving Cultures along the Silk Road(s)

Exhibition

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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
1700s or 1800s, Qajar period (1794–1925)
woman's pleated wedding skirt
1800s, Qing dynasty (1644–1912)
Coptic textile fragment
Coptic period (300 CE–700 CE)
Coptic textile fragment
Coptic period (300 CE–700 CE)
tea bowl
1500s, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
covered box
1200s–1300s, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
Kundika (water vessel)
circa 1100s, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
Kashmir shawl
circa 1875–1899
woman's tunic (aba)
1800s–early 1900s
embroidered cloth
1800s–early 1900s
sutra (in Pali)
late 1800s
saucer
mid 1800s
Petrus Regout (1801–1878), bowl
circa 1891–early 1900s
Daoist priest's robe (jiangyi)
late 1800s or early 1900s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Bactrian camel (tomb figure)
800s, Tang dynasty (618 CE–907 CE)
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)
circa 1400s, Muromachi period (1338–1573)
ohi
ohi
1700s or 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Kanō Kazunobu (1815–1863), Shakyamuni undergoing austerities
mid 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Vairocana
1454, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Kannon (Avalokitesvara)
1300s–late 1400s, Nambokuchō period (1337–1392) to Muromachi period (1338–1573)
Hyakuman-tō (three-tiered pagoda)
1700s or 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)
bianhu (pilgrimage flask) with dancing monkey
600–700s, early Tang dynasty (618 CE–907 CE)
Daruma
early 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)