Asia
Two thousand years of art and craft across East and South Asia. Ceramics, paintings, prints, and sculpture from China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia — including one of the finest collections of Japanese woodblock prints outside Japan.
Four millennia of technical mastery, philosophy, and devotion.
cross South, East, and Southeast Asia, material traditions developed along distinct aesthetic and philosophical trajectories: the spiritual discipline of ink and wash, monumental bronze casting, sophisticated ceramic chemistry, and stone sculpture carved for religious circumambulation.
The collection traces traditions that shaped continental trade routes and influenced global material culture centuries before sustained contact with Europe. A Tang dynasty sancai figure, an Indian Chola bronze Shiva, a refined Song celadon bowl: each represents an aesthetic system operating on its own rigorous principles.
