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
Title: Indian Buddha
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts<
Description: Carved stone figure of Buddha, seated in posture with his right hand held in his left. Seated within an enclosure or shrine. He wears long, flowing robes and his face bears a serene expression.
Title: Guan ware dish
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Guan ware. Dark brown stoneware dish with slightly rounded sides and foliated lip, standing on a short foot. The dish is covered with a thick ash-grey glaze with a clearly defined black crackle. The underside is also glazed and has five spur marks, produced during the firing process.
Description Source: Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archa
Title: porcelain beer tankard
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Vis
Description: Chinese export ware porcelain tankard, with cylindrical body and a dragon handle.
The tankard is brightly painted in polychrome enamels with gilt details. On the front is a domestic scene depicting five men and two women outside a building, each wearing a brightly coloured flowing robe, with a book lying open on a table. Behind the group are ploughed fields, a village and hills in the background. Surrounding the scene are a number of shaped panels of geometric pattern gro
Title: tomb guardian - pottery earth spirit
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury
Description: Animal guardian or Earth Spirit, terracotta and painted pigments.
Title: tomb guardian - pottery lion-earth spirit
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sains
Description: Animal guardian or Earth Spirit, terracotta and painted pigments.
Title: burial jar
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Tall and extended funerary vase with applied decoration and a pale blue Qingbai glaze.
The vase has an elongated pear-shaped body with a narrow, slightly splayed foot. The long neck has a garlic top with an applied pottery 'frill' collar and five loops applied below. The vase is decorated with applied figures of the Immortals standing on a lip below applied figures of animals (including a dog) and a man standing on another lip. Above is a dragon chasing a flaming pearl su
Title: red and white snuff bottle
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for
Description: Inside-painted glass snuff bottle of flattened ovoid shape, with a cork and bone snuff spoon with mother-of-pearl stopper.
The main body of the snuff bottle is made of smokey glass with a uneven band of orange-red overlay around the rim and oval footrim. There are two orange-red frames on both the front and back and a carved orange-red 'handle' on both sides. The fan-shaped frame on the upper half of the front shows a mountain scene; below is a roughly rectangular frame s
Title: bell-shaped snuff bottle
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for V
Description: Porcelain red and white snuff bottle, of flattened bell shape narrowing to a cylindrical neck. There is a narrow red band around the neck and base of the snuff bottle. Between these two bands, the main body is decorated with small, irregular rings in red, with a small red dot within each ring. There is a circular bronze dragon medallion applied to the front and back of the bottle and the head of a tiger holding a ring in its mouth on both shoulders. The stopper has a smooth
Title: toad snuff bottle
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual A
Description: Finely carved jade snuff bottle in the shape of a toad, with a carved wooden stand.
The snuff bottle is carved in the shape of a toad with an orange-coloured stopper in its mouth; the stopper has a carved bulbous head with a slim shaft and spoon. The wooden stand is carved to resemble a lotus pad.
Title: armorial plate
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Export ware plate, part of a Scottish armorial service.
Heavily potted porcelain oval plate with a narrow footring and flat unglazed base. The plate is decorated in deep underglaze blue with a diaper pattern around the rim and four floral sprays, each incorporating one of the Hundred Antiquities; for example, the floral spray above the armorial design incorporates scrolls. At the centre of the plate is a coat of arms with lion crest in coloured overglaze enamels and trace
Title: jade mountain
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts<
Description: Kidney-shaped jade boulder mountain and landscape, carved with a scene depicting the three Daoist stellar gods of longevity, prosperity and happiness. The three Immortals stand on a small terrace beneath a flight of steps leading up to a temple high up on the mountain. Below the terrace are four pilgrims to the sacred mountain shrine paying homage to them. The boulder is carved on all sides with rocky outcrops and pine trees; there is a town carved on one side and two deer o
Title: inlaid deep celadon bowl
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for V
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. The interior has a central floral pattern of three stylised chrysanthemums; the sides of the interior are decorated with sprigs of flowers below a narrow border. The entire bowl is glazed, includin
Title: Zhejiang celadon bowl
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visu
Description: Zhejiang celadon ware bowl. Heavily potted deep bowl with rounded sides and foot. The interior of the bowl is decorated with fluted sides and an impressed leaf-design in the centre. The exterior is decorated with a broad band of key fret incised in the glaze. The bowl is covered with a sea-green celadon glaze except for a wide, unglazed ring of burnt orange on the base.
Description Source: Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Mac
Title: celadon lantern
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art
Description: Celadon lantern, in the shape of a hexagonal pavilion-style pagoda.
The roof of the pagoda is in six slightly concave sections, with a lotus-bud finial at the apex and a shaped boss at each corner. There is a small hole through the base of the finial by which the lantern could be suspended. Each wall of the pagoda is similarly decorated, with three horizontal slits arranged above an arched lattice window and floral panel. The lantern stands on six splayed feet, each shap
Title: large camel statuette
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visu
Description: Hollow-moulded glazed light buff earthenware model of a saddled Bactarian camel standing four-square on a rectangular, flat self-base. The camel has a raised head, tilted slightly to one side with mouth wide open, two humps and a short tail curled around the hindquarters to the right. The body is covered in a rich, finely crazed chestnut-brown glaze; the mane and chest of the camel in a buff-coloured glaze.
Description Source: Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Il
Title: small camel statuette
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visu
Description: Hollow-moulded glazed light buff earthenware model of a saddled Bactarian camel standing four-square on a rectangular, flat self-base. The camel has a raised head, tilted slightly to one side with mouth open. An incised saddle-cloth surrounds the two humps on the camel's back and the tail is curled around the hindquarters to the left. The saddle and body are streaked in fine crazed glazes of green, yellow and brown in sancai style over a white slip. The legs have been broken
