This beautiful box dates from 18th century China. It resembles a six-petaled flower, and features a phoenix and eight symbols of Taoist immortals inlaid with turquoise.
The Eight Immortals (Ba Xian) are a group of ancient heroes in Chinese mythology who fight for justice and vanquish evil. They are comprised of seven men and one woman and each have their own associated object from which they draw their powers.
@ashmoleanmuseum #globalmuseum #Chineseart #museums
#chineseart — Public Fediverse posts
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Minyi - The Setting Sun.
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41 Chinese artefacts to make Singapore debut on Dec 7 in four classic novels showcase.
Among the items on loan from the National Library of China (NLC) are two cultural relics that China has classified in its highest grade for national heritage objects, based on factors such as rarity and significance.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/community/41-chinese-artefacts-to-make-singapore-debut-on-dec-7-in-four-classic-novels-showcase #globalmuseum #ChineseArt #Libraries -
Why traditional Chinese artist Bada Shanren’s eye-rolling birds are attracting a wave of young visitors, 400 years on – The Art Newspaper
A two-venue exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of the traditional painter Bada Shanren (1626-1705) has found unanticipated resonance…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #BadaShanren #CA #Canada #chineseart #Design #Entertainment #Exhibitions #Inkpainting
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires Important Paintings by Preeminent Chinese Ink Painter Chang Dai-chien (Zhang Daqian)
简体中文 | 繁體中文.The acquisition of 38 paintings from the collection of the artist’s daughter, Sing Sheng Chang, includes a range of works that underscore the importance of this modern Chinese ink painter.
https://www.metmuseum.org/press-releases/chang-daichien #globalmuseum #ChineseArt #museums -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1209739/ Reviving Craft brings contemporary Chinese craft to Somerset House #Britain #ceramics #ChineseArt #ChineseArtists #ChineseCraft #ChineseDesign #ContemporaryCraft #ContemporaryDesign #CraftAndTechnology #DigitalArt #England #FurnitureDesign #glass #GreatBritain #Jewellery #london #LondonArt #LondonDesignFestival #LondonDesignFestival2026 #LondonExhibitions #ReflectionOfTheMind #RevivingCraft #SomersetHouse #textiles #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Chen YUPing - Eulogy of Spring.
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A central figure in layered robes presides over kneeling supplicants, their faces etched with urgency. This hell king’s tribunal enforces cosmic order—judgment rendered in ink and stone.
What detail in the attendants’ postures reveals their role in this divine bureaucracy?
#ClevelandMuseumofArt #ChineseArt #BuddhistArt
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Delicate ink strokes render chrysanthemums and bamboo with swift, assured lines, their forms anchored by a jagged rock. The cabbage’s layered leaves unfold in pale washes, a quiet counterpoint to the scholars’ bold calligraphy—each mark balancing duty and retreat.
What detail in the calligraphy reveals the hand of a young master?
#ChineseArt #ScholarPainting #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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The #museum’s other current special exhibitions are well worth seeing too 👌
#ChineseArt #JapaneseArt #KoreanArt #TibetanArt #MOK #Cologne
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There’s currently a special exhibition on #Chinese #lacquer art at the #Museum for #EastAsianArt here in #Cologne, covering works from the #Song, #Yuan, and #Ming dynasties. I visited it today, and the exhibition is surprisingly large and broad in scope. Definitely worth a visit if you happen to be in the area:
"Layers and Cuts: Chinese Lacquer Art"
📆 until 31 January 2027
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Intricate ink lines define the Ten Kings of Hell’s judgment hall, its tiled roofs and carved pillars rendered with meticulous precision. This leaf served as both devotional image and studio model, teaching apprentices how to balance sacred narrative with decorative restraint. How many faces in the lower register turn toward the condemned?
#ChineseArt #BuddhistArt #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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Hello 👋 I'm here to keep Mastodon a happy and beautiful place 🌈😊 I post a picture everyday, mostly #ukiyoe, #shinhanga, modern #woodblockprint, #shodō/#calligraphy, #JapaneseArt, #ChineseArt, #KoreanArt.
Enjoy and have a great day 🙏
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Delicate ink strokes render a hell king’s tribunal, where condemned souls kneel beneath towering columns and arched beams. The cursive script in the upper right names each punishment, grounding moral consequence in precise calligraphy. How many figures turn away from the viewer’s gaze?
#ChineseArt #BuddhistArt #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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The seated figure clutches a staff, its curved top echoing the bowed posture of loyalty. Min Zhen’s dry brushstrokes render fur and fabric with equal weight, suggesting endurance as a shared burden.
What does the tension between the figures’ clasped hands and the dogs’ watchful stillness reveal about duty and solitude?
#ChineseArt #InkPainting #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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The brushstrokes in Liang Qichao’s couplet are sharp, deliberate—each stroke a near-perfect rectangle, unsoftened by flourish. This stele-inspired script reflects a reformer’s vision: clarity as strength, tradition as foundation.
How does the unyielding geometry of these characters shape their authority on the page?
#Calligraphy #ChineseArt #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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A horizontal scroll unfurls ink figures in quiet motion—some seated, others mid-gesture—beside columns of precise calligraphy. The contrast suggests a dialogue between word and image, where text anchors the fleeting moments of celebration. Which figure’s posture feels most alive to you?
#ChineseArt #Calligraphy #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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A tangle of sinewy waves crests around warriors grappling a swordfish longer than their spears. Their struggle maps the boundary between order and chaos—where divine mandate meets unruly nature.
What single line traces the moment the fish’s tail breaks the surface?
#ChineseArt #DaoistImagery #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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A dense tangle of robed figures presses upward in tiers, their elongated sleeves pooling like liquid ink. This hell scene distills bureaucratic judgment into a single, seething composition—what weight does the central figure’s raised brush carry?
#ChineseArt #BuddhistArt #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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The handscroll unfurls a procession of robed figures and restless horses beneath a skeletal bridge, their ink strokes dissolving into mist. This is not mere landscape—it records a moment when rain answered drought, and a pavilion became a promise.
What detail in the brushwork suggests the weight of that promise?
#ChineseArt #InkPainting #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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The leafless tree in each scroll stretches upward, its bare branches framing the massive, muscular buffalo below. Guo Min’s brushwork captures the animals’ weight and tension, suggesting both labor and quiet resilience in the landscape.
How does the herdboy’s stillness contrast with the restless energy of the buffalo?
#ChineseArt #InkPainting #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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A Chinese #FannyFriday today, as we admire this 18th century Shunga painting of an FFM threesome with a voyeur 👀
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Three fish hover in pale ink, their mouths agape as if gasping at an unseen sky. This void may echo the artist’s exile—what weight does emptiness carry when it swallows both water and history?
#BadaShanren #ChineseArt #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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Ink bleeds into silk like morning mist over the Yangzi, dissolving peaks into soft, layered veils. This scroll marks refuge in formlessness—each dot a breath of survival, not conquest.
What shifts when you trace the calligraphy’s edge, where word meets water?
#CloudyMountains #ChineseArt #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1017078/ Feng Xiao-Min on Painting, Calligraphy and the Search for Breath-Resonance #AbstractPainting #Britain #Calligraphy #ChineseArt #ContemporaryPainting #England #FengXiaoMin #GreatBritain #Interview #london #OperaGallery #painting #PieterObels #Turner #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Intricate ink lines define a hell king’s court, where a seated judge presides over kneeling figures beneath arched columns. The precision of the draftsmanship suggests both ritual authority and the weight of judgment—was this meant to instruct or to warn?
#ClevelandMuseumofArt #ChineseArt #BuddhistArt
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By Zeng Chuanxing (B. 1974), “Paper Bride, Red Grass Sea,” 2006, oil on canvas, 27½ x 44½ in. (70 x 113 cm.), photo: Christie’s London, 24 Feb 2016. #art #arthistory #chineseart #chineseartist #painting #oilpainting
From Tanya Baxter Contemporary: “Zeng Chuanxing (B. 1974, China) was born in Longchang County, Sichuan Province, in 1974. He majored in oil painting at the Central University for Nationalities from 1995 to 1998.
Having grown up among ethnic groups, Zeng Chuanxing is familiar with their life and has developed strong feelings towards them. Minority girls are a major theme of Zeng’s paintings. Zeng is especially fond of classical realism; a means through which he believes can thoroughly and delicately express his feelings. He stresses careful depiction of his characters’ eyes and hands because he feels that eyes and hands vividly and truly reflect a human being’s soul. Characters in his works are often quiet and melancholy, a feeling projected by the brown or greyish blue backgrounds.
Zeng Chuanxing is expert at passing on his feelings and attitudes towards life through the tone of colors. Zeng’s style is a kind of cold abstractionism for realistic paintings.”
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Ink bleeds into precise folds of robes, where a hell king’s raised brush hovers over a trembling soul. The architectural border frames judgment as both ritual and spectacle—who decides which lines condemn? #ClevelandMuseumofArt #ChineseArt #BuddhistArt
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A jagged line carves the underworld’s hierarchy into stone—judges in layered robes preside over kneeling souls. The script, sharp as punishment, binds text and image into a single decree of fate. What detail in the condemned figures’ postures betrays their sentence?
#ClevelandMuseumofArt #ChineseArt #BuddhistArt
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Delicate ink strokes render peach leaves with frayed edges, their veins traced in swift, uneven lines. The fruit’s fuzzy skin is suggested by a single, hesitant wash of pale gray—just enough to imply weight without solid form.
If the peach signifies immortality, why does Min Zhen leave its center nearly blank?
#ChineseArt #InkPainting #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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Delicate ink washes shape jagged cliffs, their edges dissolving into mist above clustered thatched roofs. This imagined refuge suggests escape not through grandeur, but quiet seclusion—where nature and shelter merge without seam.
What small detail in the village might reveal how its people truly live?
#ChineseArt #PeachBlossomSpring #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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Delicate ink strokes render chrysanthemums with petals curling at the edges, their stems tangled among jagged rocks. This pairing of hard and soft evokes the balance between resilience and grace in scholar-official life—how might the cabbage’s broad leaves contrast with these fragile blooms?
#ChineseArt #ScholarPainting #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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By Chinese artist Huang Yongyu (1924-2023), Plum Blossoms in Snow, scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper, 68.5 x 67.5 cm, photo: Christie’s Hong Kong, May 31, 2023. #arthistory #asianartist #chineseart #chineseartist
A quote from the artist: "I have achieved little in my lifetime. I didn't receive much formal education. But I dared not live a life without an aim or in laziness."
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The #Museum for #EastAsianArt in #Cologne is currently also running a special exhibition called "Living Images. #Buddhist rituals in #Chinese, #Japanese, and #KoreanArt". Unlike many #museum presentations that treat Buddhist objects primarily as stylistic or iconographic achievements, this show puts religious practice first. Here's a short report on what I found most interesting about it:
#WeekendStories #ChineseArt #JapaneseArt #BuddhistArt #Buddhism
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Delicate ink strokes render chrysanthemums with petals curling at the edges, their stems bending under imagined weight. This pairing of flower and cabbage contrasts refined elegance with rustic simplicity—how might the placement of each shape guide the viewer’s gaze across the scroll?
#ChineseArt #ScholarPainting #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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Delicate ink strokes render chrysanthemums with petals curling at the edges, their stems bending under imagined autumn breezes. This gathering of scholar-officials transforms flora into quiet commentary on duty and humility—what details in the cabbage’s layered leaves might reveal about their shared ideals?
#ChineseArt #InkPainting #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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In Jan. this year, I visited the #Museum for #EastAsianArt in #Cologne, where I have seen the the exhibition "Celebrating the #LunarYear of the #horse". The exhibition brings together works from #China, #Tibet, #Korea, and #Japan to explore the cultural history of the horse in #EastAsia, coinciding with the Lunar Year of the Horse. In this post, I summarize my impressions and insights from the exhibition:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-05-09_year_of_the_horse/
#WeekendStories #ChineseArt #KoreanArt #JapaneseArt #TibetanArt
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikaeru/114785188358997999
I had the opportunity to visit this wonderful museum in Taipei in early 1983, and I still remember the emotion I felt while visiting it, filled with so many beautiful pieces of Chinese art and craftsmanship.
In particular, I was completely flabbergasted when I saw this incredibly detailed miniature boat carved in a so tiny olive pit:
"Qing dynasty carved boat decorated with the Ode to the Red Cliff on the bottom"
🔗 https://theme.npm.edu.tw/3d/Content.aspx?sno=04009262&l=2&q=&cat=&p=1&fromCnt=0
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A towering pine frames the scene, its branches cradling a drunken Wu Song mid-stride, fists raised. The ink bleeds into the paper, capturing the blur of combat before the words even name its fury—where movement becomes myth.
How many monkeys echo Wu Song’s defiance in their own silent rebellion?
#ChineseArt #MartialArts #ClevelandMuseumofArt
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Xu Beihong painted a celestial nymph scattering flowers.
It sold for $440,000 (3.2M yuan).But some online comments are brutal:
“Vacant stare. Looks totally done with life.”
“Cover half her face — the other half is beautiful.”Painted in 1916, it blended Western watercolor shading with Chinese brush lines. Maybe the sadness was intentional?
#XuBeihong #ChineseArt #CelestialNymph #ArtCriticism #Painting #EarlyModernArt #OrientalMeetsWestern
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Nanjing Yunjin brocade woven by hand with silk, gold thread & peacock feathers.
Just 5cm a day.
Centuries-old royal craft. Pure mastery!
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Shāoshāng Xiǎo Gē is a Chinese burn survivor who creates stunning portraits by striking colored glass thousands of times with a hammer and steel needle, using a stippling-style “glass-point painting” technique to chip the surface and unveil incredibly detailed human faces.
Artist: 烧伤小哥会非遗 / 40458960297 on Douyin #globalmuseum #glass #burns #ChineseArt
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#FishFriday 🐠:
“An enameled #GoldFish rectangular jardinière”
China, 19th c.
L 12.1/8 in. (30.9 cm)
https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/art-china-arnhold-collection/enamelled-goldfish-rectangular-jardiniere-77/74184
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One more for #NationalPigDay 🐖:
Child’s Collar: #Pig
China, 1st half 20th c.
Silk & cotton embroidery w/ appliqué
Photographed on display at The Textile Museum (DC) in 2023.
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Golden Nanmu (Jinsi Nanmu) is an exceptionally rare, historically significant, and expensive wood, once reserved for Chinese royalty, valued for its golden, shimmering "silk" patterns and extreme durability.
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#Caturday 🐱:
Cloisonne Enamel #Cat Effigy
China, 20th c.
H 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.), W 4 cm (1 9/16 in.)
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/225392538_a-chinese-cloisonne-enamel-cat-effigy-20th-century-3fh-hunghom-kowloon
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#TextileTuesday / #TigerTuesday 🐯
Baby Collar with #Tiger Circling the Neck
Lao Han (Old Han), Guizhou Province, China, 19th c.
Silk, cotton, plastic buttons
9 1/2 in. x 10 in. (24.13 cm x 25.4 cm)
Mingei International Museum 1998-51-046 https://collections.mingei.org/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20any%20%22Tiger%22&sort=9
#ChineseArt