Masterpieces

This image depicts Avalokiteshvara seated in the position of royal ease, the right hand resting on a bent knee and the left in the gift-granting gesture.

This cup is a rare example in white jade, being one of only two artworks in this color and material from the Timurid period.

This vessel might have been used to hold wine or food, and the oval opening might have been covered with a now-missing lid that would have conformed to the contours of the animal.

The main figure in this stone sculpture from the 900s shows many characteristic features of images of the Buddha.

This Buddha has a unique status among Buddhas in China.

Simhavaktra means “lion faced” or “lion headed,” and a dakini is a “sky-walker”—an inhabitant of the realm of the sky in the mind.

This lustrous stoneware vessel is a ewer, or pitcher, dating to the early 1100s, during Korea’s Goryeo dynasty.