Asian Art

The renowned Asian Art Collection of Phoenix Art Museum boasts more than 2,700 Chinese, Japanese,Tibetan, Indian and Southeast Asian artworks, spanning centuries. Outstanding in the collection are the Wong Collection of Chinese ceramics, the Clague Collection of Chinese cloisonné and bronzes, the Jeanette Shambaugh Elliott Collection of Chinese paintings and calligraphy, and the Tibeto-Chinese Buddhist bronzes from the William Henry Storms Collection.

Left: Left to right: Covered Ovoid Jar, Large Meiping Bottle, Ewer with Dished Mouth, Unknown, Chinese, 9th century, 12th century, late 4th or early 5th century. Stoneware. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Stephen and Gail Rineberg. Center: Three Beauties amid Cherry Blossoms from a series of the Four Seasons, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1891. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Asian Arts Council on honor of G. Miriam Kinner. Right: Buddhist Shrine (pirit mandapaya), Unknown, Sri Lanka. Painted wood with fabric curtains. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Asian Arts Council.