The Mouseion · Asia & the Islamic World · China & Korea

China & Korea

Bronze vessels older than writing on paper, jade, porcelain, and painting with the brush, where landscape was the highest subject and a poem and a seal could be part of the picture.

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On the walls this month

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  Landscape with Streams and Mountains — late 1700s or early 1800s, Ink and color on paper with a silk border
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Portraits of Cho Hyun-myeong and Cho Jae-ho — early 1800s, Pair of album paintings; ink and color on silk
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Mountain Market, Clear with Rising Mist — early 1500s, Hanging scroll; ink on silk
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Cho Jae-ho from Punhyang Cho Family — 1800s, album painting, ink and color on silk
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Portrait of a Government Official — Chae Yongshin (1850–1941), 1921, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  The Kill — 300–100 BCE, Painted clamshell
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Seven Jeweled Mountain — late 1800s, ten-panel screen; ink and color on silk
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Clip for Paper with Sage Seated Under a Pine — Pu Zhongqian, 1600s or 1700s, carved bamboo
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Cho Hyun-myeong from Punhyang Cho Family — 1800s, album painting, ink and color on silk
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Arhat — 1235, Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  The Hunt — 300–100 BCE, Painted clamshell
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Stele with Sakyamuni and Bodhisattvas — 537, limestone
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Stele with Shakyamuni and Maitreya — c. 570s, marble with polychromy
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Virupa — early 1400s, Gilt bronze with silver, stones, and pigment
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Tomb Guardian with Animal Head — early 700s, glazed earthenware, sancai (three-color) ware
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Section of a Coffin Platform: Dragon — 550–77, limestone
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Wine Pot with Incised Lotus Design — 918–1392, celadon ware with incised and carved decoration
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Horse — late 600s–800, glazed earthenware, sancai (three-color) ware
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Ceremonial Blade with Three Perforations (Dao) — 2000–1700 BCE, jade (nephrite)
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Wine Vessel (Jia) — c. 1700–1500 BCE, bronze
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Eleven-Headed Guanyin — late 600s, wood
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Cup with Daoist Figures — 1736–95, Pale greenish-white jade
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Wine Vessel (Hu) — c. 1000–900 BCE, bronze
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Jar with Spiral Designs — 3300–2650 BCE, earthenware with slip-painted decoration
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Vase in the Form of a Melon — 1100s, celadon
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Cup and Stand (stand) — 1100s, glazed porcelain
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Vase in the Form of Archaic Hu — 1700s, pale greenish-white jade with brown markings
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Bowl and Saucer with Incised Lotus and Peony Design — 1100s, pottery
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Harpist — mid-700s, glazed earthenware
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Jar (Hu) — 202 BCE–9 CE, earthenware with slip and painted decoration
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Pair of Owl-shaped Jars — 206 BCE–9 CE, Amber-brown glazed low-fired pottery
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Bowl with Inlaid Waterfowl, Willow, and Reed Design — 1300s, celadon with inlaid design
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Tea Bowl — 1100s–1200s, Stoneware with black “hare’s fur” glaze and metal-bound rim, Jian ware
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Chopstick — 918–1392, bronze
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art

More of Asia & the Islamic World

• Japan — Woodblock prints of the "floating world" of actors, beauties and travellers, painted screens and scrolls, lacquer and…
• South & Southeast Asia — Gods and guardians in stone and bronze, Mughal and Rajput miniatures painted with a single-hair brush, and the art of…
• The Islamic World — From Spain to India: calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts, tiles, carpets, metalwork and glass. Pattern and the…

Where the works come from

Every work in the Mouseion is a real piece, out of copyright everywhere, shown from the open collections of the museums that hold it — each label names the original’s museum and links to its page there.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access
• The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain collection
• The Cleveland Museum of Art — Open Access
• Wikimedia Commons — public-domain photographs of works held elsewhere