Asian Art

MAG holds examples of art and artifacts from East, Southeast, and South Asian cultures. The collection is particularly strong in Buddhist and Hindu sculpture, Japanese woodcut prints, South Asian miniature paintings, and Chinese funerary art.

Highlights

A bronze plaque decorated with two ibexes facing each other, curved horns arching over their backs.
Harness Ornament with Two Ibexes, 199 BCE–1 BCE
Chinese artist
Small figurine of a kneeling female Chinese court musician.
Court Musician from a Tomb, 600–732
Chinese artist
Guanyin Bodhisattva seated with one leg drawn up, elbow resting on it.
Bodhisattva Guanyin on Mount Potala, Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279 CE)
Chinese artist
Bronze head of a Buddha.
Head of a Buddha, Ayudhya Period (1350–1757 CE)
Thai artist
Watercolor devotional image of Amitabha Buddha.
Mandala of Amitabha, ca. 1400
Tibetan artist
Ukiyo-e woodcut print of women getting ready for a performance.
The Eleventh Month: The Street Behind the Dressing Rooms at the Season Opening Performance (Jûichigatsu kaomise gakuya shindô no zu), Edo Period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Toyokuni I
A woman in Ming Dynasty clothing holding a back-scratcher.
A Bearer of Good Wishes: Fragment of a Taoist Wall Painting, ca. 1600–1644
Chinese artist
A woman hands a flower to blue-skinned Krishna, sitting in a tree outside.
A Gopi Offering Flowers to Krishna, ca. 1760–1765
Indian artist
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