CDR-1185: SR Set: The Art of China (including Korea)

The breadth of Chinese history and culture is illustrated here with examples of architecture, landscape design, sculpture, ceramics, painting, furniture, manuscripts and urbanism. These images compare the proud Terracotta Qin Warriors with urban scenes of modern Chinese life, and contrast the monumental Great Wall and elegant temples with panoramas of the contemporary high rises of today’s Shanghai. 10/08

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898 images from Saskia, Ltd. 82 images from Bridgeman Art Library 238 images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Pca-1049
Title: Shanghai Pudong: BOCOM Financial Tower and Bank of China Tower
Creator(s): ABB Architekten
Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
Date: ca. 1998-2002
Description: Telephoto view SE from Pearl Tower with high-rise skyline including BOCOM and Bank of China in foreground (2004)
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1046
Title: Shanghai Pudong: BOCOM Financial Tower and Bank of China Tower
Creator(s): ABB Architekten
Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
Date: ca. 1998-2002
Description: View of BOCOM with blue logo & angled top on left and Bank of China on right with enveloping lower portion marking the large urban square, Lujiazui Financial Plaza (2004)
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1047
Title: Shanghai Pudong: BOCOM Financial Tower and Bank of China Tower
Creator(s): ABB Architekten
Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
Date: ca. 1998-2002
Description: View SE with total height of BOCOM and Bank of China towers (2004)
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1045
Title: Shanghai Pudong: BOCOM Financial Tower
Creator(s): ABB Architekten
Date: 2002
Description: BOCOM building with blue logo & diagonal roofs & forest of high-rises in distance. Panoramic view ENE from Pearl Tower
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1048
Title: Shanghai Pudong: BOCOM Financial Tower and Bank of China Tower
Creator(s): ABB Architekten
Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
Date: ca. 1998-2002
Description: View SE with BOCOM and Bank of China towers (2004)
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
XIR-159125
Title: Pavilion Under the Trees
Creator(s): Cao Zhibo
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Met-2975
Title: Landscapes, Figures, and Flowers, Album of twelve paintings
Creator(s): Chen Hongshou
Date: dated 1618-1622
Description: leaf L
Vendor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
Pcf-1001
Title: Magnolia and Parrot
Creator(s): Chen Zhifo
Date: ca. 1942
Description: Scroll painting, total from front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcf-1005
Title: The Warm Stream in Spring
Creator(s): Chen Zhifo
Date: ca. 1960
Description: Scroll painting, cropped by one quarter
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcf-1002
Title: Plum and Sparrow
Creator(s): Chen Zhifo
Date: ca. 1947
Description: Scroll painting, total from front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcf-1004
Title: Red Persimmon and Small Bird
Creator(s): Chen Zhifo
Date: ca. 1953
Description: Scroll painting, total from front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcf-1003
Title: Plum Blossom in the Snow
Creator(s): Chen Zhifo
Date: ca. 1946
Description: Scroll painting, total from front
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
XTD-069948
Title: Portrait of Genghis Khan (c.1162-1227), Mongol Khan, founder of the Imperial Dynasty, the Yuan, making China the centre of the great Mongol Empire (1260-1368)
Creator(s): Chinese School
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Met-1770
Title: Returning Home Through the Snow
Creator(s): Dai Jin
Date: ca. 1455
Description: Overall
Vendor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
XIR-162344
Title: Mountain Landscape
Creator(s): Daoji Shitao Yuanji
Date: 1671
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-162344
Title: Mountain Landscape
Creator(s): Daoji Shitao Yuanji
Date: 1671
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Pcb-1004
Title: High-Rise Buildings and Highway: Universal Mansion
Creator(s): Frank C. Y. Feng Architects & Associates
Date: 1995
Description: Lower portion of green glass Universal Mansion juxtaposed with traditional flared roof building
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Met-1513
Title: Night-Shining White
Creator(s): Han Gan
Description: Total
Vendor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
XIR-173246
Title: Groom with Horses
Creator(s): Han Gan
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Pca-1029
Title: Longquan (Dragon Spring) Temple: Screen Wall
Creator(s): Hu Mingzhu
Date: ca. 1920-1930
Description: Angled view of right half from front left
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1030
Title: Longquan (Dragon Spring) Temple: Screen Wall
Creator(s): Hu Mingzhu
Date: ca. 1920-1930
Description: Central detail: arch & highly elaborate relief sculpture at center
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1027
Title: Longquan (Dragon Spring) Temple: Screen Wall
Creator(s): Hu Mingzhu
Date: ca. 1920-1930
Description: View upward showing highly dramatic pattern of light & shadows
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1026
Title: Longquan (Dragon Spring) Temple: Screen Wall
Creator(s): Hu Mingzhu
Date: ca. 1920-1930
Description: Total
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1025
Title: Longquan (Dragon Spring) Temple: Screen Wall
Creator(s): Hu Mingzhu
Date: ca. 1920-1930
Description: Screen wall with lavish detail in carved marble
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1031
Title: Longquan (Dragon Spring) Temple: Screen Wall
Creator(s): Hu Mingzhu
Date: ca. 1920-1930
Description: Close detail: deeply carved dragons above right of portal
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1032
Title: Longquan (Dragon Spring) Temple: Screen Wall
Creator(s): Hu Mingzhu
Date: ca. 1920-1930
Description: Relief detail above right arch
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1033
Title: Longquan (Dragon Spring) Temple: Screen Wall
Creator(s): Hu Mingzhu
Date: ca. 1920-1930
Description: End view north at left & free-standing column at right
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1028
Title: Longquan (Dragon Spring) Temple: Screen Wall
Creator(s): Hu Mingzhu
Date: ca. 1920-1930
Description: Raking view, highly dramatic, sculptural impact
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcb-1009
Title: Shanghai Pudong: Zhengda Plaza: Zhengda Plaza
Creator(s): Jerde Partnership International, Inc.
Date: ca. late twentieth century
Description: View of vast plaza seen from the Pearl toward Jin Mao Tower, at center in distance
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcb-1010
Title: Shanghai Pudong: Zhengda Plaza: Zhengda Plaza
Creator(s): Jerde Partnership International, Inc.
Date: ca. late twentieth century
Description: View of Plaza from entrance to Oriental Pearl Tower
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcb-1003
Title: High-Rise Buildings and Highway: Tomorrow Square
Creator(s): John Portman & Associates
Date: 2003
Description: Dense concentration of high-rise buildings and highway with Pointed Tomorrow Square on left
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcb-1011
Title: Shanghai Puxi Huangpu: Tomorrow Square
Creator(s): John Portman & Associates
Date: 2003
Description: Interesting variant of the downtown skyline dominated by the pointed Tomorrow Square (Marriot Hotel) building
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pca-1056
Title: Three Shanghai Towers with Contrasting Exteriors: Bund Center
Creator(s): John Portman & Associates
Date: 2002
Description: Bund Center: topped with floral crown, rising above expressway
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcb-1012
Title: Shanghai Puxi Huangpu: Tomorrow Square
Creator(s): John Portman & Associates
Date: 2003
Description: Approach to center of historic core with pointed Tomorrow Square (Marriot Hotel) tower to right of center
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Met-1522
Title: Red Friend; Hongyou
Creator(s): Lan Ying
Date: 16th- mid-17th century
Description: Total
Vendor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
Pca-1057
Title: Three Shanghai Towers with Contrasting Exteriors: Haitong Securities Building
Creator(s): Leo A. Daly Company
Date: 2003
Description: Variation of glass-box, rippling sheets of glass
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
XZL-226021
Title: Kublai Khan Hunting
Creator(s): Liu Kuan-tao [Chung-hsien]
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XZL-150417
Title: Kublai Khan Hunting
Creator(s): Liu Kuan-tao [Chung-hsien]
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Pcb-1013
Title: Sun Yat-Sen's Mausoleum: Mausoleum Gate
Creator(s): Lu Yanzhi
Date: 1926-1929
Description: Mausoleum Gate on main axis to mausoleum
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Pcb-1014
Title: Sun Yat-Sen's Mausoleum: Memorial Archway (Pailou)
Creator(s): Lu Yanzhi
Date: 1926-1929
Description: Total, on axis
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.