Title: porcelain dish with sanskrit
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre f
Description not set
Title: wooden tomb figure
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual
Description: Carved wooden tomb figure. The figure is carved in a simplistic form with a head, body and arms but no legs; the only identifiable facial feature is the nose.
The figure is in fairly poor condition.
Title: small painted red earthenware pot
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Cen
Description: Neolithic ware. Thinly potted light brick-red earthenware funerary jar with two loop handles and a flat base. The upper two thirds of the body are painted in dark brown with geometric designs in concentric horizontal bands. There is a narrow solid band around the rim of the jar, with two wider bands of cross-hatched pattern and another narrow solid band below. Around the widest part of the body is a wide band of a geometric pattern of alternating triangles and chevrons, belo
Title: ivory and jade opium pipe
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for
Description: Yellow ivory and green jade opium pipe.
Long and slender opium pipe carved from yellow ivory, slightly splayed at either end. The mouthpiece is a small, circular hole at one end of the shaft. About two-thirds of the length from the mouthpiece is a damascened metal mount, decorated with a fan, a scene showing a mythical beast with books (symbols of learning), two shou characters (the symbol for longevity) and a seal script inscription within an oval frame. A carved ivory m
Title: painting of tribute presentation
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury
Description: Handscroll of a court scene depicting courtiers and foreigners bringing gifts to the emperor. The painting is symmetrical: both architecturally and the numbers of people on each side are balanced. In total 90 people are portrayed including court attendants and those presenting gifts. Two animals are shown, a lion and an elephant.
Title: teapot
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Royal Cambodian teapot with lid.
Bencharong (5-colour)
Title: set of poem cards in a lacquer box
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Ce
Description: Set of thirty six Japanese printed poem cards in a decorative lacquer box. Each card printed with a different figure and calligraphic poetic inscriptions.
Maki-e (Metal Powder Sprinkled Lacquer Decoration)
Title: inlaid shallow celadon bowl
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre fo
Description: Stoneware inlaid celadon bowl with rounded sides and foot. The bowl is inlaid on both the interior and exterior with a white and black slip decoration under a green celadon glaze. There are four stylised chrysanthemums within a scrolling foliage border on the exterior of the bowl, with four stylised chrysanthemums below. The interior has a central floral pattern of three stylised chrysanthemums surrounded by a ruyi-head border; the sides of the interior are decorated with fo
Title: Han tomb brick
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Slightly U-shaped, solid, rectangular ornamental tomb brick of grey fire clay with an impressed decoration in low relief. On the front, concave face of the brick is a banner-bearing equestrian figure with a two-character horizontal inscription above and an eight-character vertical inscription to the left. The bottom of the vertical inscription is chipped off at the corner; it is repeated in a frame on the left side with several characters of the inscription written in revers
Title: incomplete crossbow trigger mechanism
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury
Description: Part of a cast bronze trigger mechanism for a crossbow. Only the frame and hook of the mechanism remain; the two pins, trigger rest and trigger are missing.
The mechanism shows signs of corrosion.
Title: Iranian blue and white bowl
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre fo
Description: Blue and white Persian bowl.
Title: Iranian blue and white bowl
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre fo
Description: Blue and white Persian bowl.
Title: Ming blue and white dish
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for V
Description: Thickly potted blue and white porcelain dish with a plain rim, slightly rounded sides and a finely cut foot-ring.
The dish is decorated in deep underglaze blue. A bunch of lotus, sagittaria and water chestnut tied with a narrow ribbon is painted at the centre of the dish. This is surrounded by a composite flower scroll in the cavetto and a narrow band of classic scroll below the rim. On the outside of the dish is a composite flower scroll between a narrow key fret border
Title: Japanese Buddha
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art
Description: Gold lacquered wooden figure of a seated Buddha.
The Buddha is seated in Dhyanasana (lotus position) on a lotus plinth, with his right hand resting on his right knee with palm inwards and left hand on his lap with palm upwards in Bhumisparsha Mudra (gesture of touching the earth). He wears flowing robes with a serene expression, long earlobes and tight curls surmounted by a domed usnisa. His facial features are roughly painted in black.
The reverse of the figure is lef
Title: Burmese Buddha
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Cast gilt bronze seated Buddha.
The Buddha is seated in Dhyanasana (lotus position) on a double lotus plinth, with his right hand touching a lotus on the ground and left hand on his lap with palm upwards in Bhumisparsha Mudra (gesture of touching the earth). He wears tightly fitting robes with a serene expression, long earlobes and tight spiral curls surmounted by a domed usnisa. The urna between the eyebrows is inlaid with turquoise.
The plinth has a lotus pattern on
Title: Tibetan figure of a Buddhist deity
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Ce
Description: Tibetan cast bronze seated four-armed Buddhist deity, on a stand.
The Buddha is seated in Dhyanasana (lotus position) on a double lotus plinth, with his principal hands held in front of the breast, with the left palm turned inward (toward the body) and the right turned outward, and the circles formed by the thumbs and index fingers of each hand touch one another in Dharmachakra Mudra (gesture of teaching). The secondary hands are held higher than the principal hands, with
Title: stela with the figure of the Buddha Amitabha
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sa
Description: Buddhist stele with the figure of the Buddha Amitabha, carved from a single block of limestone.
The back of the stele is arched and curves forwards at the top. The larger upper register of the stele shows the Buddha Amitabha standing barefoot on a low lotus plinth and surrounded by an incised nimbus, aureole and flames. He wears a high-domed usnisa and long flowing robes. His right hand is raised to shoulder height with the palm of the hand facing outward and the fingers
