Att. to Gu Hongzhong (active 943-60)

Night Revels of Han Xizai

detail of handscroll, ink and colors on silk

Zhao Gan 

Early Snow Along the River

handscroll, ink and color on silk

 Fan Kuan 

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams

Northern Song Dynasty

hanging scroll, ink and color on silk

Fan Kuan (c. 960- 1030)

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams

detail

Guo Xi 

Early Spring

hanging scroll, ink and color on silk

 Guo Xi (c1000- c.1090)

Early Spring

detail

 Wang Ximeng (1096-ca. 1117)

A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains

Handscroll, ink and colors on silk, 1113

Wang Ximeng (1096-ca. 1117)

A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains

detail

 Att. to Emperor Huizong

Cranes Above Kaifeng

handscroll, ink and colors on silk

detail of writing (left)

Att. to Emperor Huizong 

Northern Song

Cranes Above Kaifeng

handscroll, ink and colors on silk

detail of image (right

  Zhang Zheduan

Spring Festival on the River

Song Dynasty

detail of handscroll, ink and colors on silk

Zhang Zheduan (active early 12th c.)

Spring Festival on the River

detail

Att. to Li Song (active 1190-1230)

View Over West Lake at Hangzhou

handscroll, ink on paper

 Att. to Li Song (active 1190-1230)

View Over West Lake at Hangzhou

detail

 Li Song (active 1190-1230)

Knick-Knack Peddler 1210

fan mounted as album leaf, ink and light colors on silk

 Anon., formerly att. to Zhao Boju

The Han Palace/ Women's Festival of the Double Seventh

Late 12th-early 13th c., fan-shaped album leaf,ink and colors on silk

 Ma Yuan 

Southern Song Dynasty

On a Mountain Path in Spring

Album leaf, ink and color on silk

 Ma Yuan

Southern Song

Apricot Blossoms

Fan Mounted as an album leaf, in and color on silk

 Anon.

Portrait of the Chan Abbot Wuzhun

Dated 1238, hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk

Zhou Jichang and Lin Tinggui 

Five Hundred Louhan

one from a set of one hundred hanging scrolls, ink and colors on silk

 Liang Kai (active early 13th c.)

Sakyamuni Emerging from The Mountains

hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk

Liang Kai (active early 13th c.)

Sixth Chan Patriarch Chopping Bamboo

hanging scroll, ink on paper

   Muqi (13th century)

Guanyin, Crane, and Mother Gibbon and Baby

set of three hanging scrolls, ink and colors on silk

 Mi Fu (1052-1107)

Letter About a Coral Tree

Northern Song, c.1101, Album leaf, ink on paper

 Li Gonglin (c.1049-1106)

Illustrated Classic of Filial Piety

Northen Song, c. 1085,

detail of handscroll, ink on silk

 Wang Tingyun

Southern Song Dynasty

Old Tree and Bamboo

handscroll, ink on paper

Qiao Zhongchang(active first half 12th c.)

Illustration of Second Prose-Poen on the Red Cliff

Northern Song, colophon dated 1123, Detail of handscroll, ink on paper

Zhao Mengfu 

The Mind Landscape of Xie Yuyu

Yuan Dynasty

Detail of handscroll, ink and colors on paper.

 Guan Daosheng

Bamboo Groves in Mist and Rain

Yuan Dynasty

Handscroll, ink on paper.

 Huang Gongwang

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Yuan Dynasty

Detail of handscroll, ink on paper.

 Anonymous

Portrait of Ni Zan

Yuan, c.1340. Handscroll, ink and colors on paper

 Ni Zan 

Rongxi Studio

Yuan-Ming, dated1372.

Hanging scroll, ink on paper.

  Shen Zhou (1427-1509)

Poet on a Mountain Top

Ming. Album leaf, one of six, ink on paper.

 Shang Xi 

Guan Yu Captures the General Pang De

Ming Dynasty

Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk.

 Liu Jun (active c. 1475-c.1505)

First Song Emperor Visiting his Prime Minister in Winter Snow

Ming. Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk

 Tang Yin 

Tao Gu Presents a Poem

Ming Dynasty

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk.

 Attributed to Du Jin 

Enjoying Antiquities

Ming Dynasty

Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk.

Left Half

 Attributed to Du Jin 

Enjoying Antiquities

Ming Dynasty

Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk.

Right half

Qiu Ying (c.1495-1552)

Spring Morning in the Han Palace

Ming, c.1540. Detail of handscroll, ink and colors on silk.

Qiu Ying 

Spring Morning in the Han Palace

Ming Dynasty

Detail of handscroll, ink and colors on silk.

 Anonymous

Beauty Before a Curio Case

Qing Dynasty, 18th century.

One of set of twelve hanging scrolls, ink and color on silk.

 Giuseppe Castiglione/Lang Shining

Qianlong Emperor Receiving Tribute Horses from the Kazaks

Qing Dynasty

Handscroll, ink and colors on paper.

Long-necked vase, Guan ware

Southern Song, 13th century.

Stoneware with soft blue crackled glaze.

Pillow in the shape of a recumbent child,

Ding ware

Northern Song

Porcellaneous stoneware with white glaze over carved and incised decoration.

Bowl in the shape of a lotus,Ru ware

Northern Song, 12th century.

Porcelain.

 Teabowl with black glaze and leaf pattern,

Jizhou ware

Southern Song (1127-1279).

Porcelain.

Vase, Cizhou ware

Northern Song, 12th century.

Stoneware covered with white and black slip under transparent glaze with graffito decoration of dragon and foliage.

Jar

Yuan Dynasty

Porcelain with relief decoration and painting in underglaze blue and copper red.

Excavated at Baoding, Hebei.

 Flat-sided flask with scene of musicians in a landscape

Ming Dynasty: Yungle reign 

Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration.

Jar with cover, wucai (five-color) ware

Ming Dynasty, Jiajing era 

Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamel decorations.

Stem cup with birds and flowers

Ming Dynasty

mark and period of Chenghua (1465-87).

Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze

enamel decoration.

Vase with European figures

Qing Dynasty

Emperor Qianlong mark and period (1736-95).

Painted enamel on copper.

 Xu Yang 

Bird's-Eye View of the Capital

Qing Dynasty

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

 "Royal City" (wang cheng) plan

after San li tu,

1676

Liu Garden Pond and Rockery

Suzhou, Jiangsu.

Ming Dynasty, Jiajing era (1522-66).

Yuanmingyuan

Qing, 1747-59

 Du Qiong (1397 -1474)

Befriending the Pines

Ming Dynasty

Handscroll, ink and colors on paper

 Du Qiong 

Befriending the Pines

Ming Dynasty

Handscroll, ink and colors on pape

Fang Shishu and Ye Fanglin

The Literary Gathering at a Yangzhou Garden

Qing Dynasty, 1743.

Handscroll, ink and color on silk

Fang Shishu and Ye Fanglin(late 17th-early 18th c.)

The Literary Gathering at a Yangzhou Garden

Qing, 1743. Handscroll, ink and color on silk