A remarkable group of seven bronze figures was unearthed in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia, in 2006. These sixth- and seventh-century Buddhist sculptures, two of which were Chinese, ultimately were acquired by the National Museum of Cambodia. There they became one of the first projects of the institution's Metal Conservation Laboratory, created with the assistance of the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
Gods of Angkor celebrates not only the collaborative efforts of the Cambodian and U.S. museums to...
A remarkable group of seven bronze figures was unearthed in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia, in 2006. These sixth- and seventh-century Buddhist scu...
This innovative book narrates the history of a single object?a tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries?and describes how its role changed after it was imported to Japan and passed from owner to owner there. In Japan, where the jar was in constant use for more than seven hundred years, it was transformed from a humble vessel into a celebrated object used in chanoyu (often translated in English as tea ceremony), renowned for its aesthetic and functional qualities, and awarded the name Chigusa.
Few extant tea utensils possess the...
This innovative book narrates the history of a single object?a tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth c...
