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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.
Jane Virginia Portal BA, MA, FSA (née Bowerman, born 1955) is a specialist in Chinese and Korean art history, and is Keeper of the Department of Asia at the British Museum. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] About
In 1991, Harrison-Hall joined the British Museum as a project curator for Jessica Rawson in the Department of Oriental Antiquities (now department of Asia). She became Curator of Chinese Ceramics in 1994, curator of the Sir Percival David Collection in 2006, and Head of the China Section in 2015.
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
Asia and Pacific Museum: Poland Warsaw Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: United States 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 ...
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.
British Museum. Many artistic influences transited along the Silk Road, especially through the Central Asia, where Hellenistic, Iranian, Indian and Chinese influence were able to interact. In particular Greco-Buddhist art represent one of the most vivid examples of this interaction. As shown on the 1st century CE Silk Road map, there is no ...