The terms reuse, recycle, and repurpose—although ever-present exhortations in the face of the contemporary global ecological crisis—are not merely modern concepts and concerns. These material reclamations and techniques were deployed in times of scarcity and in moments of artistic inspiration; they occurred at the juncture of transcultural exchange and as a result of sociopolitical and religious impetus among other reasons. Guest edited by Halle O’Neal, volume 52 of Ars Orientalis focuses on these ideas in Japanese material culture and the meaning of the transformations. The articles examine not only critical moments in the life cycle of particular objects, but they also provide insight into their evolving function and importance throughout history.
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Preface
Nancy Micklewright
Ottoman Statecraft and the “Pencil of Nature”: Photography, Painting, and Drawing at the Court of Sultan Abdülaziz
Mary Roberts
Royal Portrait Photography in Iran: Constructions of Masculinity, Representations of Power
Ali Behdad
Photography and Afghan Diplomacy in the Early Twentieth Century
Holly Edwards
Presenting the Self: Pictorial and Photographic Discourses in Nineteenth-century Dutch Indies and Siam
John Clark
The Aesthetics and Politics of Royal Portraiture in Thailand
Maurizio Peleggi
Korean Royal Portraits in the Colonial Archives
Christine Kim
Handle with Care: Shaping the Official Image of the Emperor in Early Meiji Japan
Maki Fukuoka
Prince Chun through the Lens: Negotiating the Photographic Medium in Royal Images
Yi Gu
The Mandarin at Home and Abroad: Picturing Li Hongzhang
Roberta Wue
Lingering between Tradition and Innovation: Photographic Portraits of Empress Dowager Cixi
Ying-chen Peng
The Empress Dowager’s Birthday: The Photographs of Cixi’s Long Life Without End
Claire Roberts
Index of Names
From Chinese paintings to Indian caves, Volume 40 of Ars Orientalis takes a wide-ranging look at Asian art history. Four of the issue’s eight articles concern painting, investigating the iconography of the sparrow in the art of Tang-Song China (Bo Liu), two different groups of Indian works (Cathleen Cummings and Laura Parodi), and three 17th-century Ottoman manuscripts (Emine Fetvaci). Painted imagery is also the subject of Hsu Wen-Chin’s study of the decoration of Chinese porcelain. Robert deCaroli’s work examines the function of the visual imagery in the caves of Ajanta and its potential impact on the intended audience. A well-known but poorly understood 17th-century textile, the Marcy-Indjoudjian Cope, has been meticulously studied by Vrej Nersessian. Finally, the Freer Gallery itself is the subject of Ingrid Larsen’s study of Charles Lang Freer as a collector of Chinese painting.
Table of Contents
“Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures”: Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum
Ingrid Larsen
Illustrations of Romance of the Western Chamber on Chinese Porcelains: Iconography, Style, and Development
Hsu Wen-Chin
Deciphering the Cold Sparrow: Political Criticism in Song Poetry and Painting
Bo Liu
“The Abode of a Nàga King”: Questions of Art, Audience, and Local Deities at the Ajaåæà Caves
Robert DeCaroli
Composition as Narrative: Sāhībdīn’s Paintings for the Ayodhyākaṇḍa of the Jagat Singh Rāmāyaṇa
Cathleen Cummings
The Marcy-Indjoudjian Cope
Vrej Nersessian
Enriched Narratives and Empowered Images in the Books of Ahmed I
Emine Fetvacı
Two Pages from the Late Shah Jahan Album
Laura Parodi
Online Access (vols. 38-39 combined)
Globalizing Cultures: Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth Century
Volume 39, guest-edited by Nebahat Avcıoğlu and Finbarr Barry Flood. Framed by an extensive introductory essay, the volume brings together seven articles addressing various aspects of the movement of cultural forms (dress, landscape, and book illustration, among others) in Europe and Asia during the eighteenth century. Authors include Tülay Artan, Chanchal Dadlani, Elisabeth A. Fraser, Anton Schweizer, Avinoam Shalem, Kristel Smentak, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, and Mercedes Volait.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Globalizing Cultures: Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth Century
Nebahat Avcıoğlu and Finbarr Barry Flood
A Roomful of Mirrors: The Artful Embrace of Mughals and Franks, 1550–1700
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Looking East: Jean-Etienne Liotard, the Turkish Painter
Kristel Smentek
Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Princesses as Collectors: From Chinese to European Porcelain
Tülay Artan
Translating Visions: A Japanese Lacquer Plaque of the Haram of Mecca in the L. A. Mayer Memorial Museum, Jerusalem
Anton Schweizer and Avinoam Shalem
The “Palais Indiens” Collection of 1774: Representing Mughal Architecture in Late Eighteenth-Century India
Chanchal Dadlani
“Dressing Turks in the French Manner”: Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Panorama of the Ottoman Empire
Elisabeth A. Fraser
History or Theory? French Antiquarianism, Cairene Architecture, and Enlightenment Thinking
Mercedes Volait
Online Access (vols. 38-39 combined)
Theorizing Cross-Cultural Interaction Among Ancient and Early Medieval Visual Cultures
This groundbreaking volume focuses on critical moments of exchange in the ancient and medieval Mediterranean, Central and Western Asia, and China. Six articles consider a range of sites and media, moving between sweeping analysis of diplomacy, trade, empire, and religion and close study of specific local conditions. Together they help clarify whether and how objects were incorporated into visual cultures. Guest edited by Matthew P. Canepa, the theme of this volume was originally explored in a panel at the 2008 annual meeting of the College Art Association.
Table of Contents
Theorizing Cross-Cultural Interaction Among Ancient and Early Medieval Visual Cultures
Matthew P. Canepa, Guest Editor
Are there hybrid visual cultures? Reflections on the Orientalizing Phenomena in the Mediterranean of the Early First Millennium BCE
Nassos Papalexandrou
Naturalizing the exotic: On the Changing Meanings of Ethnic Dress in Medieval China
Kate A. Lingley
The space between Locating “Culture” in Artistic Exchange
Bonnie Cheng
Distant displays of power: Understanding Cross-Cultural Interaction Among the Elites of Rome, Sasanian Iran, and Sui–Tang China
Matthew P. Canepa
Foreign vesture and nomadic identity on the black sea littoral in the early thirteenth century
Costume from the Chungul Kurgan
Warren T. Woodfin, Yuriy Rassamakin, Renata Holod
Patterns of flight: Middle Byzantine Adoptions of the Chinese Feng Huang Bird
Alicia Walker
Online Access (vols. 36-37 combined)
Current Directions in Yuan Painting revisits the work of Yuan period artists in light of dramatic changes in the field of Chinese art history over the past two decades. Articles by ten distinguished scholars study individual works of art, the historiography of Yuan painting in Chinese intellectual traditions, and recent art history. This volume’s theme grew out of a 2006 conference at the University of Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
Preface
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
The Yuan “Re+volutionary” Picnic: Feasting on the Fruits of Song (A Historiographic Menu)
Jerome Silbergeld
From The Clear and Distant Landscape of Wuxing to The Humble Hermit of Clouds and Woods
Joseph Chang
Fit for Monks’ Quarters: Monasteries as Centers of Aesthetic Activity in the Later Fourteenth Century
Marsha Weidner Haufler
Shifting Paradigms in Yuan Literati Art: The Case of the Li-Guo Tradition
Maxwell K. Hearn
Changing Media: The Transmission of Images in Yuan Painting
Uta Lauer
Fashioning Identities in Yuan-Dynasty Painting: Images of the Men of Culture
David Ake Sensabaugh
Yuan Period Tombs and Their Inscriptions: Changing Identities for the Chinese Afterlife
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
The Elegiac Cicada: Problems of Historical Interpretation of Yuan
Eugene Wang
De-centering Yuan Painting
Richard Vinograd
I Don’t Believe in the Literati But I Miss Them: A Postscript
Robert E. Harrist, Jr.
Online Access (vols. 36-37 combined)
Contents
The “Writing” on the Wall: Images of Resistance and Authority in Maharaja Madhav Rao Scindia I’s Wall Paintings in Gwalior
Melia Belli, University of California, Los Angeles
The Buddha’s Words at Cave Temples: Inscribed Scriptures in the Design of Wofoyuan
Sonya S. Lee, University of Southern California
Genuine or Forged: Methods of Identifying Forgeries of Chinese Buddhist Sculptures
Chang Qing, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Huizong’s New Clothes: Desire and Allegory in Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk
Lara C. W. Blanchard, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Visual Experience in Late Ming Suzhou “Honorific” and “Famous Sites” Paintings
Elizabeth Kindall, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
Travels of the Daihoonji Six Kannon Sculptures
Sherry Fowler, University of Kansas
Review essay: Art history as a theory of art
Bihzad and The Visual Anthropology of Iran
Sharif Shukurov, Moscow University
Book reviews
The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra, by Ebba Koch
The Majesty of Mughal Decoration: The Art and Architecture of Islamic India,
by George Michell
Elizabeth Lambourn, De Montfort University & Centre for South East Asian
Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies
The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci,
by Tracy Miller
Ho Puay Peng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
What’s the Use of Art? Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context,
edited by Jan Mrázek and Morgan Pitelka
Alice Y. Tseng, Boston University
Online Access (vols. 34-35 combined)
Illustrated Books May be Hazardous to Your Health: A New Reading of the Arabic Reception and Rendition of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides
George Saliba, Columbia University, and Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Pluralism of Styles in Sixth-Century China: A Reaffirmation of Indian Models
Angela Howard, Rutgers University
Imperial Portraiture as Symbol of Political Legitimacy: A New Study in the “Portraits of Successive Emperors”
Ning Qiang, Connecticut College
Hu Zhengyan: Fashioning Biography
Suzanne E. Wright, The University of Tennessee
The World’s a Stage: The Theatricality of Chen Hongshou’s Figure Painting
Shi-yee Liu, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Goryeo Buddhist Painting in an Interregional Context
Yukio Lippit, Harvard University
Book Reviews
Representation and Power in the Visual Culture of Japan: Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field, edited by Joshua S. Mostow, Norman Bryson, and Maribeth Graybill; The Artist as Professional in Japan, edited by Melinda Takeuchi
Morgan Pitelka, Occidental College
Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings, edited by Robert Hillenbrand
David Roxburgh, Harvard University
Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, by Craig Clunas
Susan Nelson, Indiana University
50th Anniversary Issue
Online Access (vols. 34-35 combined)
Communities and Commodities: Western India and the Indian Ocean (11th–15th Centuries)
This volume is the result of an interdisciplinary workshop by the same name, convened at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (November 7–10, 2002).
Editors’ Preface
Introductory Essay, Communities and Commodities: Western India and the Indian Ocean, Eleventh–Fifteenth Centuries
Alka Patel, guest editor, Senior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)
Topographies of Taste: Indian Textiles and Mediterranean Contexts
Grant Parker, Duke University, Durham
The Beginnings: The Artisan and the Merchant in early Gujarat, Sixth–Eleventh Centuries
Himanshu Prabha Ray, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Craftspeople, Communities, and Commodities: Medieval Exchanges between Northwestern India and East Africa
Mark Horton, University of Bristol, Bristol
Quseir al-Qadīm in the Thirteenth Century: A Community and Its Textiles
Katherine Strange Burke and Donald Whitcomb, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Carving and Communities: Marble Carving for Muslim Patrons at Khambhāt and around the Indian Ocean Rim, Late Thirteenth–Mid-Fifteenth Centuries
Elizabeth Lambourn, The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Indian Textiles for Island Taste: Gujarati Cloth in Eastern Indonesia
Ruth Barnes, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University
Luxury Goods and Intellectual History: The Case of Printed and Woven Multicolored Textiles in Medieval India
Phyllis Granoff, Yale University, New Haven
Patterns in Time and Space: Technologies of Transfer and the Cultural Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge across the Indian Ocean
Carol Bier, Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
Online Access (vols. 32-33 combined)
Editor’s Preface
Written Ornament—Ornamental Writing: Birdscript of the Early Han Dynasty and the Art of Enchanting
François Louis, The Bard Graduate Center, New York
Auspicious Motifs in Ninth- to Thirteenth-Century Chinese Tombs
Ellen Johnston Laing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
A Jin Hall at Jingtusi: Architecture in Search of Identity
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Narrating the Salvation of the Elite: The Jofukuji Paintings of the Ten Kings
Quitman E. Phillips, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Madurai Nayakas and the Skanda Temple at Tirupparankundram
Crispin Branfoot, De Montfort University, Leicester
Siwa in Java: The Majestic Great God and the Teacher
Alessandra Lopez Y Royo, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Book Reviews
Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, volume 1, Images of Heroic Encounter, by Mark B. Garrison and Margaret Cool Root
Ronald Wallenfels, New York University
Excavations at Surt (Medinat al-Sultan) Between 1977 and 1981, by Géza Fehérvári, ‘Abbas Hamdani, Masoud Shaghlouf, and Hal Bishop, edited by Elizabeth Savage
Scott Redford, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Peerless Images: Persian Painting and Its Sources, by Eleanor Sims, with Boris Marshak and Ernst J. Grube
Massumeh Farhad, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture: South India, Dravidadesa, Later Phase, c. A.D. 1289–1798, 2 volumes, edited by George Mitchell
The Temples in Kumbhariya, by M. A. Dhaky and U. S. Moorti
Adam Hardy, De Montfort University, Leicester
Inventory of Monuments at Pagan, Volumes 1–8, by Pierre Pichard
Donald M. Stadtner
Online Access (vols. 28-29 combined)
A Special Issue honoring the 75th Anniversary of the Freer Gallery of Art
Preface
Margaret A. Lourie for the Editorial Board
ARTICLES
Replicating, Inscribing, Giving: Ernst Herzfeld and Artaxerxes’ Silver Phiale in the Freer Gallery of Art
Ann C. Gunter, Freer Gallery of Art
Margaret Cool Root, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Very Idea of a Portrait
Vidya Dehejia, Freer Gallery of Art
Love and Marriage in Song China: Tao Yuanming Comes Home
Martin J. Powers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Some Alternative Sources for Archaistic Elements in the Paintings of Qian Xuan and Zhao Mengfu
James Cahill, University of California, Berkeley
A Recent Freer Acquisition and the Question of Workshop Practices
Richard M. Barnhart, Yale University
Notes and a Reflection on the Freer Shubun Painting
Yoshiaki Shimizu, Princeton University
Discovering Shaykh-Muhammad in the Freer Jami
Marianna Shreve Simpson, Walters Art Gallery
BOOK REVIEWS
The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem, by Oleg Grabar
Yasser Tabbaa, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo, by Yasser Tabbaa
Scott Redford, Georgetown University
The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy of the 14th to 20th Centuries, by Nabil F. Safwat
David J. Roxburgh, Harvard University
The Early Glyptic of Tell Brak: Cylinder Seals of Third Millennium Syria, by Donald M. Matthews
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, California State University, Los Angeles
Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era, by Daniel S. Walker
Daniel Ehnbom, University of Virginia
In Praise of Prambanan: Dutch Essays on the Loro Jonggrang Temple Complex, edited by Roy E. Jordaan
Mary-Louise Totton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Angkor Wat: Time, Space and Kingship, by Eleanor Mannikka
Nora A. Taylor, National University of Singapore
Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress, by Richard Martin and Harold Koda
Thelma K. Thomas, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Politics of Reclusion: Painting and Power in Momoyama Japan, by Kendall H. Brown
Quitman Eugene Phillips, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Online Access (vols. 18-19 combined)
ARTICLES
Maurya Figural Sculpture Reconsidered
Frederick Asher and Walter Spink, The University of Minnesota and The University of Michigan
The Laksmana Temple, Khajuraho, and Its Meanings
Hiram W. Woodward, Jr., The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
The Role of Grand Protector Shi in the Consolidation of the Zhou Conquest
Edward L. Shaughnessy, University of Chicago
Shen Nanpin’s Japanese Roots
Hidemi Kondo, The Shoto Museum, Tokyo
On the Gold Jug Inscribed to Abu Mansur Al-Amir Bakhtiyar ibn Mu’izz al-Dawla in the Freer Gallery
Glenn D. Lowry, Freer Gallery of Art
BOOK REVIEWS
The Iconography and Ritual of Siva at Elephanta, by Charles Dillard Collins
Mary F. Linda, Jersey City, New Jersey
Ajanta Paintings: Identification and Interpretations, by Dieter Schlingloff
Walter Spink, The University of Michigan
Trends in Khmer Art, by Jean Boisselier. Edited by Natasha Eilenberg
Stan J. Czuma, Cleveland Museum of Art
Chugoku kaigashi (A History of Chinese Painting), Part IIb, by Suzuki Kei
Peter C. Sturman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Written and Unwritten: A New History of the Buddhist Caves at Yungang, by James O. Caswell
Harrie A. Vanderstappen, University of Chicago
Chinese Painting Colors: Studies of Their Preparation and Application in Traditional and Modern Times, by Yu Feian. Translated by Jerome Silbergeld and Amy McNair
John Winter, Freer Gallery of Art
A Jeweler’s Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection, by Glenn D. Lowry with Susan Nemazee
Yasser Tabbaa, The University of Michigan
Online Access (vols. 18-19 combined)
ARTICLES
The New York Public Library Makhzan al-asrar and Its Importance
Priscilla Soucek, New York University
Fatimid Jewelry, Its Subtypes and Influences
Marilyn Jenkins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Imperial Architecture along the Mongolian Road to Dadu
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
The Ladies’ Classic of Filial Piety and Sung Textual Illustration: Problems of Reconstruction and Artistic Context
Julia K. Murray, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hsia Wen-yen and His T’u-hui pao-chien (Precious Mirror of Painting)
Deborah Del Gais Muller, John K. Fairbanks Center, Harvard University
The Mystery of the Chang Seal
Chi Chien Wang and Kathleen Yang, New York and Irvington, New York
The Impact of Shugendo on the Painting of Yokoi Kinkoku
Patricia Fister, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
The Chowrie-Bearing Goddess on the Asvamedha Type of Samudragupta’s Coin
Pratapaditya Pal, Los Angles County Museum of Art
BOOK REVIEWS
Oriental Carpets in the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, by Friedrich Spuhler; Woven from the Soul. Spun from the Heart. Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th–19th Centuries, edited by Carol Bier
Nancy Micklewright, The University of British Columbia
The Art and Architecture of Islam: 650–1250, by Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar
Ülkü Bates, Hunter College
Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, by Robert W. Bagley
Virginia C. Kane, The University of Michigan
Netsuke: The Hull Grundy Collection in the British Museum, by Victor Harris
Hugh Wylie, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Vaisnavism in Indian Arts and Culture, edited by Ratan Parimoo
Doris Meth Srinivasan, George Washington University
Online Access (vols. 15-17 combined)
ARTICLES
In Memoriam: Calvin Leonard French
Rand Castile, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Kuniyoshi’s Minamoto Raiko and the Earth Spider: Demons and Protest in Late Tokugawa Japan
Melinda Takeuchi, Stanford University
T’ang Line-engraved Stone Reliefs From Shensi
Mary H. Fong, University of California, Davis
Early Ming Painters in Nanking and the Formation of the Wu School
Hou-mei Sung Ishida, Cleveland, Ohio
Medieval Narrative Sculpture and Three Krsna Panels
Donald M. Stadtner, The University of Texas at Austin
Krishna and the Birds
John Stratton Hawley, Columbia University
Speculations on the Theme of Siva as Tripurantaka as it Appears During the Reign of Rajara I In the Tanjore Area ca. A.D. 1000
Gary J. Schwindler, Ohio University
BOOK REVIEWS
The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, by Zeynep Çelik
Nancy Micklewright, The University of Michigan
Books on Islamic Architecture and Archaeology
Terry Allen, The University of Michigan
The Caves at Aurangabad: Early Buddhist Tantric Art in India, by Carmel Berkson
Walter Spink, The University of Michigan
Examination and Identification of the Forging of Ancient Calligraphy and Painting, by Xu Bangda
Thomas Lawton, Freer Gallery of Art
History of Chinese Painting IIa: Southern Song, Liao and Jin, by Suzuki Kei
Joan Stanley-Baker, The University of Melbourne
Online Access (vols. 12-14 combined)
ARTICLES
In Memoriam: John Alexander Pope
Henry Trubner, Seattle Art Museum
Pu-tai-Maitreya and a Reintroduction to Hangchou’s Fei-lai-feng
Richard Edwards, The University of Michigan
The Monumental “Cosmological Buddha” in the Freer Gallery of Art: Chronology and Style
Angela Falco Howard, Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Reconstruction of the Pictorial Cycle of the Siyar-i Nabi of Murad III
Carol Garrett Fisher, Michigan State University
The Sarre Qazwini: An Early Aq Qoyunlu Manuscript?
Julie Badiee, Western Maryland University
Indra’s Heaven: A Dharmacakrastambha Socle in the Bangkok National Museum
Robert L. Brown, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
BOOK REVIEWS
The Houghton Shahnameh, by Martin Bernard Dickson and Stuart Cary Welch
Priscilla P. Soucek, New York University
Briefly Noted: Four new works on Islamic art
Terry Allen, The University of Michigan
The Presence of Siva, by Stella Kramrisch
Doris Srinivasan, Fairfax, Virginia
Khmer Ceramics: 9th–14th Century, edited by Diana Stock; Vietnamese Ceramics, edited by Carol M. Young, Marie-France Dupoizat, and Elizabeth W. Lane; and Northern Thai Ceramics, by J. C. Shaw
Hiram W. Woodward, Jr., University of Vermont
The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth Century China, by James Cahill
Ellen Johnston Laing, University of Oregon
Shigaraki, Potters’ Valley, by Louise Allison Cort
Paul Berry, The University of Michigan
Online Access (vols. 12-14 combined)
ARTICLES
Family Properties: Personal Context and Cultural Pattern in Wang Meng’s Pien Mountains of 1366
Richard Vinograd, Columbia University
Lu Chih and the Literati Tradition: Paintings in the Style of Ni Tsan
Louise Yuhas, Occidental College
Technical Examination of Two Owl-Shaped Tsun
Lynda A. Zycherman, Technical Laboratory, Freer Gallery of Art
The Production and Patronage of the Haft Aurang by Jami in the Freer Gallery of Art
Marianna Shreve Simpson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
The Mughal Painter Daswanth
Milo Cleveland Beach, Williams College
Some Additions to the Known Corpus of Paintings by the Mughal Artist Farrukh Chela
Rekha Morris, University of Chicago
Ekapada Siva Images in Orissan Art
Thomas Donaldson, Cleveland State University
Bithu: Individuality and Idiom
Michael W. Meister, University of Pennsylvania
BOOK REVIEWS
Die Madrasa des Kalifen al-Mustansir in Baghdad: Eine baugeschichtliche Untersuchung der ersten universalen Rechtshochschule des Islam. Mit einer Abhandlung über den sogenannten Palast in der Zitadelle in Baghdad, by Hansjörg Schmid
Terry Allen, The University of Michigan
Siraff III: The Congregational Mosque and other mosques from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, by David Whitehouse
Terry Allen, The University of Michigan
Kaladarsana: American Studies in the Art of India, edited by Joanna G. Williams
Pramod Chandra, Harvard University
Barabudur: History and Significance of a Buddhist Monument, edited by Luis O. Gómez and Hiram W. Woodward, Jr.
Phyllis Granoff, McMaster University
The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China, edited by Wen Fong
Jessica Rawson, The British Museum
Chugoku kaiga-shi, by Suzuki Kei
James Cahill, University of California, Berkeley
Horyu-ji: sekai saiko no mokuzo kenchiku, by Nishioka Tsunekazu; Architecture in the Shoin Style-Japanese Feudal Residences, by Hashimoto Fumio
William H. Coaldrake, Harvard University
Nabeshima, by Motosuke Imaizumi; Agano and Takatori, by Gen Kozuru; Folk Kilns I, by Hiroshi Mizuo; Folk Kilns II, by Kichiemon Okamura; Kakiemon, by Takeshi Nagatake
Louise Allison Cort, Freer Gallery of Art
ARTICLES
Max Loehr at Seventy
James Cahill
The Context of Rajput Painting
Milo Cleveland Beach
Thunder Monsters, Auspicious Animals, and Floral Ornament in Early Sixth-Century China
Susan Bush
The “Thousand-Buddha” Patterin in Caves XIX and XVI at Yün-kang
James O. Caswell
Jade Demonic Images from Early China
Doris J. Dohrenwend
The Yen Family and the Influence of Li T’ang
Richard Edwards
A Re-examination of An-yang Archaeology
Virginia C. Kane
A Group of Early Western Chou Period Bronze Vessels
Thomas Lawton
Chieh-hua: Ruled-line Painting in China
Robert J. Maeda
Ajanta’s Chronology; The Crucial Cave
Walter M. Spink
Sarnath Gupta Steles of the Buddha’s Life
Joanna Williams
IN MEMORIAM
Rutherford John Gettens
ARTICLES
On Some Categories of Archaism in Chinese Bronze
William Watson
Ming Blue-and-White Bowls of Lien-Tzu Type
Kamer Aga-Oglu
Shussan Shaka in Sung and Yüan Painting
Helmut Brinker
Two Chinese Carved Lacquer Boxes of the Fifteenth Century in the Freer Gallery of Art
Harry M. Garner
Fan Paintings Attributed to Sotatsu: Their Themes and Prototypes
Miyeko Murase
Examination of Art Objects in the Freer Gallery Laboratory
W. T. Chase
The Yüan-Ming Transformation in the Blue and Red Decorated Porcelains of China
Margaret Medley
Ottoman Miniature Painting under Sultan Mehmed II
Esin Atil
Sung and Yüan Monochrome Lacquers in the Freer Gallery
Hin-Cheung Lovell
Theme and Variations: A Winter Landscape in the Freer Gallery and Related Versions
Max Loehr
The Freer Canteen
Laura T. Schneider
ARTICLES
Medieval Ceramic Oil Lamps from Fustat
Wladyslaw B. Kubiak
Four Istanbul Albums and some Fragments from Fourteenth-Century Shah-Namehs
Nurhan Atasoy
A Sixteenth-Century Architectural Plan of Istanbul
Walter B. Denny
Three Seasons of Excavations at Qasr al-Hayr Sharqi
Oleg Grabar
Tell Abu Sarifa, A Sassanian-Islamic Ceramic Sequence from South Central Iraq
Robert McC. Adams
On Some Miniatures Attributed to Bihzad from Leningrad Collections
Olympiade Galerkina
The “Elephant Wall” of the Ruvanveli Dagoba in Anuradhapura
Diran K. Dohanian
On a Disputed Element in the Iconography of Early Mahisasuramardini Images
J. C. Harle
Chronology and Development of the Chalukya Cave Temples
Gary Tarr
An Unfinished Chaitya Hall: Junnar, Manmodi 39
Joanna Williams
Notes on Five Paintings from a Ch’ing Dynasty Collection
Thomas Lawton
Wang Hui’s “Dwelling in the Fu-Ch’un Mountains”: A Classical Theme, Its Origins and Variations
Hin-Cheung Lovell
The Chao Ta-nien Tradition
Robert J. Maeda
The Pearl Roundel in Chinese Textile Design
Michael W. Meister
ARTICLES
Ancillary Dating Materials from Fustat
George T. Scanlon
An Ottoman Building Complex of the Sixteenth Century: the Sokollu Mosque and its Dependencies in Istanbul
Dogan Kuban
Al Khadr and Christian Icons
D. R. Howell
Archaeological Reconnaissance and Soundings in Jundi Shahpur
Robert McC. Adams and Donald P. Hansen
Jundi Shahpur: A Preliminary Historical Sketch (Appendix)
Nabia Abbott
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L. T. Giuzalian
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Martha L. Carter
New Inscriptions from Ajanta
M. K. Dhavalikar
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Walter Spink
Ue Gukei—Fourteenth-Century Inkpainter
Richard Edwards
A Correction
James Cahill
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