A THANGKA OF USHNISHAVIJAYA, 18TH-19TH CENTURYMongolia. Distemper on cloth. The three-headed Goddess of Longevity seated in dhyanasana on a lotus ...

A THANGKA OF USHNISHAVIJAYA, 19TH CENTURYTibet. Distemper and gold on cloth. The three-headed Goddess of Longevity seated in dhyanasana on a lotus...

A TIBETAN-CHINESE THANGKA OF AMOGHAPASHA, 19TH CENTURYTibetan-Chinese. Distemper and gold on cloth. The three-headed deity seated in dhyanasana on...

A BLUE-GROUND KESI SEMIFORMAL DRAGON ROBE, JIFU, QING DYNASTYChina, 18th-19th century. Finely woven with eight gold-thread dragons chasing flaming...

A FESTIVE ROBE, CHAO FU, QING DYNASTYChina, mid-19th century. The summer weave silk embroidered with sinuously coiled dragons chasing flaming pear...

A GOLD-EMBROIDERED BLUE-GROUND SEMIFORMAL DRAGON ROBE, JIFU, QINGChina, 19th century. Finely embroidered in couched gold threads with eight writhi...

A SEMIFORMAL DRAGON ROBE, JIFU, JIAQING PERIODChina, 1796-1820. Finely embroidered in couched gold and silver-wrapped threads on blue ground with ...

AN OFFICIAL’S SUN HELMET, QING DYNASTYChina, 1644-1912. Silk, gold thread, gilt metal, and rattan. Shaped as a pith or sun helmet surmounted by a ...

A PEACOCK FEATHER, QING DYNASTYChina, 1644-1912. Originally attached to an official’s hat from the Manchu court and later re-fitted as a fan, comp...

AN APRICOT-GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK ‘SQUIRRELS AND GRAPES’ ROBE, QING DYNASTYChina, 1644-1912. Finely woven with many bunches of grapes hanging fro...

A KESI ‘LOTUS’ PANEL, LATE MING TO EARLY QINGChina, 17th-18th century. Embroidered with a large central lotus surrounded by smaller flowers on scr...

A KESI RED-GROUND DRAGON PANEL, QINGChina, 17th-18th century. Embroidered with a large front-facing four-clawed mang dragon with large eyes under ...

A KESI ‘BUTTERFLIES’ INFORMAL LADY’S ROBE, LATE QING DYNASTYChina, 19th century. Finely worked with innumerable fluttering butterflies picked out ...

AN IMPORTANT AND LARGE KESI ‘PEACH FESTIVAL’ PANEL, QING DYNASTYChina, 1644-1912. Richly embroidered in bright colors with a lively scene depictin...

A KESI PANEL OF XIWANGMU, QING DYNASTYChina, 18th century. Woven in bright colors with a scene of Xiwangmu carrying a dish of peaches and lingzhi ...

A RARE MILITARY OFFICIAL'S RANK BADGE OF A LION, BUZI, LATE MING DYNASTYChina, 17th century. Made for a second rank military official. Embroidered...

A LARGE KESI ‘DRAGON’ PANEL WITH KIRIMON, MING DYNASTYChina, 17th century. Made for the Japanese market. Finely woven with the mon of the Toyotomi...

A VERY LARGE IMPERIAL YELLOW KESI ‘DRAGON’ PANEL, QING DYNASTYChina, 18th century. Woven with one front-facing and four side-facing five-clawed lo...

A PAIR OF PAINTED SILK CEREMONIAL SCARFS, KHATA,18TH-19TH CENTURYTibet. Watercolors and ink on silk, laid down on silk. One scarf painted in the c...

A HUGE ALTAR FRONTAL, EMBROIDERED SILK, QING DYNASTYChina, 19th century. Depicting a dignitary holding a scepter and being fanned by his attendant...

AN EMBROIDERED SILK HANGING, QING DYNASTYChina, 19th century. The larger panel with a seal and inscription, embroidered in shades of blue and whit...

THE HOFSTÄTTER PALAIS CARPET, QING DYNASTYChina, 1644-1912. The wool carpet superbly knotted with a central foliate medallion enclosing a charmin...

A WOOL RUG, LATE QING TO REPUBLICChina, late 19th to early 20th century. Finely woven with a central panel enclosing four evenly spaced vases with...

A LARGE EMBROIDERED SILK ‘PIGEONS ON A LAKESHORE’ WALL HANGINGVietnam, 19th century. Depicting five pigeons in a field with daisies next to a lake...

A ‘SANYANG’ CARPET, QING DYNASTYChina, 1800-1880. A finely woven wool rug depicting three goats, two with upright horns and the third with elegant...

A POLYCHROME STUCCO FRESCO FRAGMENT, YUAN TO MING DYNASTYChina, 1279-1644. The rectangular panel painted with two celestial maidens, one playing t...

LU ZONGGUI, DATED 1229: AN IMPORTANT SONG DYNASTY ALBUMChina. Eight watercolors on thin silk. With two hardwood covers. Painted in classic Song dy...

‘PAIR OF DOVES’ BY ZHANG CHONG (c. 1628-1652)Ink and watercolors on silk. Finely painted in the court style of the Song dynasty with two doves on ...

‘BIRDS IN SPRING’ BY HUA YAN (1682-1756)Ink on silk. Depicting two birds perched on a prunus branch below a hanging willow, the painting finely ex...

‘FISHERMEN IN A LANDSCAPE’, SIGNATURE OF WU ZHEN (1280-1354)Ink on silk. Grippingly painted with two fishermen on a boat in front of high cliffs w...

‘MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE’, ANONYMOUS, YUAN TO MING DYNASTYInk on silk. Painted with a series of houses hidden between craggy rocks and dense clusters o...

‘PINE AND CLIFFS’, SIGNATURE OF WANG MENG (1308-1385)Ink and watercolors on silk. Dramatically painted with a gnarled pine tree in front of high t...

‘TREES AND CLIFFS’, ANONYMOUS, YUAN TO MING DYNASTYInk on silk. Painted with three old, gnarled trees next to a small hut and in front of a high t...

‘HERON IN A LOTUS POND’, EARLY QING DYNASTYChina, 17th-18th century. Ink and watercolors on silk. The heron standing on one leg in a pond surround...

‘LANDSCAPE’, WITH SIGNATURE OF WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559)Ink and watercolors on silk. The striking contrast between the traditional, somewhat staid...

‘CONFUCIUS AND BUDDHIST LION’, MING DYNASTYChina, 1368-1644. Ink and watercolors on paper. The great philosopher seated on an elaborate altar next...

‘PICKING FLOWERS’, CHINESE SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURYChina. Oil on canvas laid down on board. Depicting a walled garden scene with three court ladies dr...

‘A LADY PLAYING THE QIN’, IMPERIAL SCHOOL, QING DYNASTYChina, 18th-19th century. Ink and watercolors on silk, mounted as a hanging scroll. Depicti...

‘THE ARRIVAL OF XIWANGMU’ BY YU ZHIDAN, QING DYNASTYChina, 18th-19th century. Ink and watercolors on silk. Signed on the lower right. Two seals. F...

‘THE CHENGHUA EMPEROR’, IMPERIAL SCHOOL, QING DYNASTYChina, 18th-19th century. Ink and watercolors on paper. The Emperor seated in a regal pose on...

‘ANCESTOR PORTRAIT’, KOREAN SCHOOL, JOSEON DYNASTYKorea, 18th-19th century. Ink and watercolors on paper. Depicting an official or civil servant w...

‘MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE’, QING DYNASTYChina, 1644-1912. Ink and watercolors on paper. Finely painted with a vast mountain landscape, with four small h...

‘GUAN YU READING THE SPRING AND AUTUMN ANNALS’, MING DYNASTYChina, 1368-1644. Ink and watercolors on paper. Signed upper left. Two seals. The famo...

‘PARROTS AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS’ BY HAO ZHIYE, LATE QING DYNASTYInk and watercolors on a silk fan. Signed and inscribed to the left, dated to the year...

‘WANG XIZHI AND GEESE’ BY JIN MAOQING, DATED 1868Ink, gilt, and watercolors on a paper fan. Signed and inscribed to the right, dated to the year o...

AN ALBUM WITH NINE FIGURAL SCENES, QING DYNASTYChina, 1644-1912. Watercolors and ink on silk, laid down on paper. A fine compilation with one grou...

‘LUOHAN TRYPTICH’, JIN NONG (1687-1763)Ink on paper. The three scrolls finely painted with various depictions of luohan, including one riding a dr...

‘HEHE ERXIAN’, QING DYNASTYChina, 1644-1912. Finely painted with the twin immortals of harmony and union, one standing in front holding a ruyi sce...

‘IN THE MORNING ONE CAN LEARN THEIR LESSON FROM WHAT ONE HAS GRASPED IN THE EVENING’, HONGLI (1711-1799)China, ink on paper, album leaf, calligrap...

AN IMPERIAL POETRY ALBUM BY YU MINZHONG (1714-1779), WITH CARVED SANDALWOOD COVERS, QIANLONGChina, 1760-1779. The covers finely carved in low reli...

A MANUSCRIPT OF THE AMITABHA SUTRA WITH SILK COVERS, DATED 1788China. Accordion album of approximately 88 leaves, ink on paper. Besides the text t...

A LOT OF 169 BOOKS, GUANGXU PERIODChina, 1875-1908 (149 books) and 1914 (20 books). The books are divided into seven groups:1. 32 books, Quan Tang...

AN ALBUM WITH TEN EXPLICIT EROTIC PAINTINGS, QINGChina, 19th to early 20th century. Watercolors, gilt, and ink on silk. Depicting a couple engaged...

AN ALBUM OF TWELVE NON-EXPLICIT EROTIC PAINTINGS, QINGChina, 19th to early 20th century. Watercolors, gilt, and ink on silk. Depicting mostly non-...

‘CHINESE JUNKS’, A PAIR, CHINESE SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURYChina, Canton, oil on canvas. The first depicting a Chinese junk in the open sea with a mount...

‘CRANES’, SCHOOL OF SHEN QUAN (1682-1760)Ink and watercolors on silk. Superbly painted with two cranes, one drinking water from a stream and the o...

‘FOUR SCENES FROM THE TWENTY-FOUR FILIAL EXEMPLARS’, QING DYNASTYChina, 1644-1912. Ink and watercolors on silk. Depicting, from top to bottom, Jia...

‘MEIREN WRITING ON A BODHI LEAF’, QINGChina, 18th century. Ink, gilt, and watercolors on paper. The beautiful young woman wearing an elaborately d...

A ‘CHAEKGORI’ SIX-PANEL SCREEN, JOSEON DYNASTY, WITH ‘HIDDEN’ ARTIST SEALKorea, 19th century. Ink and watercolors on paper. The six ‘Scholar’s Acc...

A FOUR-PANEL ‘ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS’ COROMANDEL SCREEN, QING DYNASTYChina, 1644-1912. One side of the brown-lacquered surface carved and i...