Product Description: A vast Imperial pleasure palace on the outskirts of the T'ang dynasty capital is the subject of a set of hanging scrolls acquired for The Metropolitan Museum of Art by The Dillon Fund in Spring 1982. Working in 1691 with shimmering azurite and malachite, the artist Yüan Chiang gave the seventh-century Chiu-ch'eng Palace―the "Palace of Nine Perfections"―an imaginative splendor that may have surpassed that of the original...read more

Product Description: FAn exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 195 pages; Physical desc. : 195 p. : ill. (some col. ) , col. Map ; 31 cm...read more

Product Description: PHOENIX - In his own way the Japanese artist Minol Araki had developed a cross-cultural mind-set by an early age. Born in 1928 in Dairen, now Luda, China, a port city in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, he grew up in a place of Japanese, Chinese and Russian influences...read more

Drawing on museum collections and archaeological sites in China, many previously closed to Westerners, a group of distinguished scholars chronicles the development of Chinese painting over three millennia and presents three hundred examples reproduced in color. UP. (view table of contents)

A study of the 151/2-foot handscroll of the "Classic of Filial PIety, painted by Li Kung-lin, the preeminent figure painter of eleventh-century China.

Product Description: The Jade Studio: Masterpieces of Ming and Qing Painting and Calligraphy from the Wong Nan-Ping Collection