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Shanghai Museum

ARTIST RESIDENCY CHINA — SHANGHAI, no. 44

Shanghai

The Shanghai Museum is one of several significant institutions within The People’s Park in downtown Shanghai. It contains an insanely sumptuous collection. No material escapes the expressive form and skill displayed by the Chinese and Tibetan people at the highest level of expertise: cloth, bead, wood, jade, gilt-brass, ink, paint, paper, ceramic, stone, bronze. The few samples here do not include items that are difficult to photograph through glass, such as stone seal carvings.

ABOVE: Batik sleeve attachments, Bouyei, Zhenning, Guizhou, 2nd half of the 20th century

Shanghai Museum
Shanghai Museum

costumes of diverse ethnic regions of China

Shanghai Museum
Shanghai Museum

Gilt-brass figurine of Ushnishavijaya, Tibetan, Qing (1644–1911)

Shanghai Museum

Gilt-brass figurine of vajra protector, Tibetan, Qing (1644–1911)

Shanghai Museum

wooden Tujia masks for Nuo opera

Shanghai Museum
Shanghai Museum

Jade ornaments on funerary face covering popular in the Zhou dynasty. The jade pieces were stitched on the funerary face covering cloth, a forerunner of the jade clothes of the Han dynasty.

Shanghai Museum

an artist’s room

Shanghai Museum

Incense stand with five inward-turning legs, Huanghuali Wood, Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum

Sight-seeing of Autumn Mountain, by Wen Boren, (1502–1575), handscroll, Ming dynasty, painted in 1566, detail

Shanghai Museum

Mountains Girdled with White Clouds, Fang Congyi, (ca. 1302–1393), handscroll, Yuan dynasty

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum

stone Buddha carving

Shanghai Museum

Jia (wine vessel), with a row of bead pattern, Late Xia (18th–16th century B.C.)

Shanghai Museum

Drum stand with openwork coiled dragon design, Late Spring and Autumn dynasty (early 6th century–476 B.C.)

Shanghai Museum

Gilt bronze censer with openwork interlaced dragon pattern, Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220)

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