Asian Art

  • Covered Ovoid Jar, Large Meiping Bottle, Ewer with Dished Mouth
  • Three Beauties amid Cherry Blossoms
  • Buddhist Shrine (pirit mandapaya)


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You will be amazed at how they many Asian cultures are so beautifully represented in this collection.
Works include Chinese ceramics, cloisonné enamel, painting and tomb sculpture, Japanese prints and screens, Indian sculpture, miniature paintings and Buddhist art from Tibet, Nepal, India, China, Japan, Sri Lanka and Java.

Select Exhibition History

A Tradition Redefined

Various Galleries
Through September 14, 2008

When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection

Orme Lewis Gallery
February 16, 2008 - May 11, 2008

Views of Edo Japan: Prints from the Robert Louis Mueller Family Collection

Graphics Gallery
April 28, 2007 - August 12, 2007

Demonic Divine in Himalayan Art

Art of Asia & Graphic Galleries
September 23, 2006 - December 17, 2006

Secret World of the Forbidden City
South Wing
November 10, 2001 - April 7, 2002

 

Left: 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.