Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art
This installation features a wide range of East Asian ceramics, including Chinese ceramic funerary sculpture from the Han (206 B.C.E.–220 C.E.) to Tang (618–906) dynasties, celadons and other wares of the Song dynasty (960–1279), and blue-and-white enameled porcelains of the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties. Korean celadons and Japanese tea ceremony wares will also be represented. Other highlights include a sixth-century Chinese figure of Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Compassion, a twelfth-century Indian stone sculpture of Vishnu, Chinese jades from the third millennium B.C.E. to the eighteenth century C.E., an eighteenth-century suit of Japanese armor, and a gold-embroidered monk’s shawl.
The gallery is generously funded by Barbara and Robert P. '64 Youngman.
Caparisoned Horse, Chinese, Eastern Wei dynasty, (534–550), polychrome ceramic, 12 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. Purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Art Acquisition Fund. 2004.015