James C. Y. Watt

In the great tradition of publications on Chinese art from the Metropolitan Museum, China: Dawn of a Golden Age will become an essential text for years to come. This book is the catalogue for a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (October 5, 2004 to January 23, 2005).

Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD

China

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Anne E. Wardwell

The demise of the Silk Roads and the end of expansionist policies, together with the rapid increase in maritime trade, brought to an end the vital economic and cultural interchange that had characterized the years preceding the death of the Ming-dynasty Yongle emperor in 1424. Overland, intrepid merchants no longer transported silks throughout Eurasia and weavers no longer traveled to distant lands. But the products that survive from that wondrous time attest to a glorious era - when silk was resplendent as gold.

Central Asian and Chinese Textiles

When Silk was Gold

Barbara Brennan Ford

The Irving Collection represents a wide range of styles and techniques from the 13th through the twentieth centuries.

The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection

East Asian Lacquer

Emma C. Bunker

Zhixin Sun

"The artistic exchange between the pastoral peoples and their settled Chinese neighbors through trade, migration, marriage alliances, and warfare contributed to the cultural development of both groups. This book chronicles that exchange and tells of the legacy of their art, with iconographic analyses and detailed descriptions of nearly two hundred artifacts." "The objects, a recent gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, are drawn from the distinguished collection of Eugene V. Thaw, with additional works selected from other New York collections and from the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections

Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes

國立故宮博物院

Wen Fong

Introduces Chinese dynastic history, and examines the Museum and its collection

Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei

Possessing the Past

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011.

James C. Y. Watt

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