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Object of the Month – February 2022

February 3, 2022Heather
Empress’s festive headdress (dianzi), China, Guangxu reign period (1875-1908), from Chinese Robes from the Forbidden City, shown at the V&A in 2010. Courtesy of Palace Museum, Beijing

This month marks the New Chinese Year – and 2022 is the year of the tiger. To mark the event, we’re posting a Chinese Empress’s festive headdress (dianzi), Guangxu reign period (1875-1908)  from the exhibition Imperial Chinese Robes from the… Continue reading →

Object of the month

OBJECT OF THE MONTH – DECEMBER 2021

December 17, 2021Heather
Goa Stone and gold case with gold filigree and repoussé, with cast legs and finial, probably made in Goa, late 17th/early 18th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A particularly beautiful object from the Portuguese period in India is a Goa Stone and gold case with gold filigree and repoussé that has cast legs and finial, and was probably made in Goa, late 17th/early 18th century, in the collection… Continue reading →

Object of the month Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Goa Stone, Portuguese Goa, Portuguese India, Portuguese trade in Asia

Object of the Month – November 2021

November 11, 2021Heather
Yokohama Print: North America (Kita Amerika shu) by Utagawa Yoshitora, 1866. Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne, Art Institute of Chicago

This Yokohama print emerged from the specific historical events initiated when a fleet commandeered by US Commodore Matthew C Perry first landed in Japan in 1853. Perry’s arrival marked the beginning of a period of mutual curiosity between two cultures,… Continue reading →

Object of the month Foreigners in Japan, Japanese prints, Yokohama prints

Object of the Month October 2021

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Indonesian shadow puppet of the character Trigangga, son of Hanuman the white monkey from the Ramayana, Cirebon, western Java, late 1700s or early 1800s, hide, horn, fibre, pigment, gold leaf © Trustees of the British Museum

Shadow Puppet from Indonesia As part of the exhibition Sir Stamford Raffles: Collecting in Southeast Asia 1811-1824 (19 September 2019 to 12 January 2020), at the British Museum, a number of objects, including Indonesian shadow puppets, relating to Indonesian theatre… Continue reading →

Object of the month Indonesian Puppets, Indonesian Shadow Theatre, Java puppets, Java Shadow Theatre, shadow puppets, Wayang Kulit

Object of the Month September 2021

September 30, 2021Heather
Qing dynasty (1644-1912) snuff bottle, Cinnabar lacquer, glass. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus L. Searle, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Object of the Month September 2021

September 2021 Chinese Snuff Bottle This Chinese snuff bottle was on show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) from 14 September 2019 to 7 June 2020 The function of these bottles was twofold: to contain snuff tobacco in a… Continue reading →

Object of the month Chinese snuff bottles, Qing Dynasty snuff bottles, Snuff Bottles

August 2021

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calligraphic standard from India

Calligraphic Standard from India This calligraphic standard from India was seen in the exhibition Power and Protection, Islamic Art and the Supernatural shown at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 20 October 2016 to 15 January 2017. Within Islamic societies,… Continue reading →

Object of the month calligraphic standard, Mughal art

July 2021

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Lacquer Offering Stand from Okinawa This lacquer offering stand from Okinawa comes from the Ruyuku Kingdom (1429–1879), which controlled an extensive maritime trade network and played a key role in the cultural and economic exchange between China and Japan at… Continue reading →

Object of the month Honolulu Museum of Art, Japan Okinawa, Okinawa antiques, Okinawa Islands, Okinawa lacquer, Ruyuku Kingdom

June 2021

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Chinese Vase with ‘peach bloom’ glaze   This elegant Chinese vase with ‘peach bloom’ glaze comes from the exhibition held at the Baur Museum in Geneva from 27 September 2018 to 3 February 2019. A Millenium of Monochromes from the… Continue reading →

Object of the month A Millenium of Monochromes, Baur Foundation, Chinese peach bloom glaze vase, Kangxi porcelain, Kangxi vase, peach bloom glaze vase

May 2021

May 5, 2021Heather

May 2021 The kendi, an Indonesian-Malay term derived from the Sanskrit kundika, a water-pouring vessel with a distinctive mammiform spout and bulbous body, was indigenous to the Southeast Asian archipelago. Some Thai kendis took zoomorphic forms. The hamsa, the mythical… Continue reading →

Object of the month Ayutthuya period Thailand, hamsa ceramics, kendi, Southeast Asian ceramics, Sukothai ceramics, Thai ceramics

APRIL 2021

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Writing Box, Mughal India This writing box was exhibited in the exhibition Goa and The Great Mughal, shown at Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon from June to September 2014. The box would have probably been a European commission during a… Continue reading →

Object of the month Goa and the Great Mughal, Mughal Empire, Writing Box Mughal India

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