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The Department of Asia in the British Museum holds one of the largest collections of historical objects from Asia. These collections comprise over 75,000 objects covering the material culture of the Asian continent (including East Asia, South and Central Asia, and Southeast Asia), and dating from the Neolithic age up to the present day.
British Museum Research Publication 151 (ed., with Beth McKillop) (London: The British Museum, 2004) Korea: Art and Archaeology (London, British Museum Press 2000) 'Korean Celadons of the Koryo Dynasty’ pp 98–103 in I. Freestone and D. Gaimster (eds) Pottery in the Making: Ceramic Traditions (London: British Museum Press, 1997)
Other museums include the popular Science Museum of Virginia, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, the National Museum of the Marine Corps, the Frontier Culture Museum, the Virginia Museum of Natural History and the Mariners' Museum. [16] Virginia Commonwealth University is the number one public art school in the United States.
Asian sculptures in the British Museum (13 P) Pages in category "Asian objects in the British Museum" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
San Francisco, California 18,000 [6] Asian Civilisations Museum: Singapore Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art: United States Memphis, Tennessee 1,000 [7] Birmingham Museum of Art: United States Birmingham, Alabama 4,000 [8] British Museum: United Kingdom London 55,000 [9] Brooklyn Museum: United States Brooklyn, New York 20,000 [10] Chinese ...
Room 95, British Museum. Due to a funding crisis, 53 Gordon Square closed at the end of 2007. The ceramics collection went on a long-term loan to the British Museum, where the whole collection, about 1,700 objects, is on permanent public display in a specially designed gallery (Room 95, British Museum) opened on 23 April 2009, sponsored by Sir Joseph Hotung. [2]
A fragment of a dharani print in Sanskrit and Chinese, c. 650–670, Tang dynasty The Great Dharani Sutra, one of the world's oldest surviving woodblock prints, c. 704-751 The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang-dynasty China, 868 AD (British Museum), the earliest extant printed text bearing a date of printing Colophon to the Diamond Sutra dating the year of printing to 868
Drawings (including wash or watercolour paintings) held in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, and prints with a special connection with the collection that is mentioned in the article, for example unique copies. Most common, and very many rare prints, will also be in the collection, but should not be categorized here.