Chinese Art

Prehistory to 1300

Funerary jar, Banshan phase, from Gansu, third millennium BCE.

Yu, eleventh century BCE, Shang dynasty. (Source Freer Gallery of Art)

Terracotta Army, tomb of the Emperor Qin (d. 210 BCE), from Lintong,

near Xian, Qin dynasty, 221-207 BCE.

Colorized Warrior from Terracotta Army.

Funerary Banner, Mawangdui Tombs, Changsa, c. 168 BCE, Han dynasty.

Colossal Buddha, cave 20, Yungang, c. 460-493 CE, Northern Wei dynasty.

(Source Art and Archaeology)

Shakyamuni and Prabhutaratna, 518 CE, Northern Wei period.

(Source Getty Images)

Horse and Female Rider, seventh-eighth century CE, Tang dynasty.

(Source Metropolitan Musuem of Art)

Guo Xi, Early Spring, early eleventh c CE, Northern Song dynasty.

Ma Yuan, On a Mountain Path in Spring,

c. late twelfth —early thirteenth century, Southern Song dynasty.

Muqi, Six Persimmons, thirteenth century CE,

Southern Song dynasty.