British Museum Plan


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British Museum

East Asia

  • A large collection of Chinese ritual bronzes, (from c. 1500 BC onwards)

  • Huixian Bronze Hu, an identical pair of bronze vessels from the Eastern Zhou period, China, (5th century BC)

  • Japanese antiquities from the Kofun period excavated by the pioneering archaeologist William Gowland, (3rd–6th centuries AD)

  • The famous Admonitions Scroll by Chinese artist Gu Kaizhi, (344–406 AD)

  • The colossal Amitābha Buddha from Hancui, China, (585 AD)

  • A set of ceramic Tang dynasty tomb figures of Liu Tingxun, (c.728 AD)

  • Seated Luohan from Yixian, one from a set of eight surviving statues, China, (907–1125 AD)

  • A fine assemblage of Buddhist paintings from Dunhuang, western China, collected by the British-Hungarian explorer Aurel Stein, (5th–11th centuries AD)

  • Pericival David collection of Chinese ceramics, (10th–18th centuries AD)

  • Ivory stand in the form of a seated lion, Chos-'khor-yan-rtse monastery in Tibet, (13th century AD)

  • Pair of ceramic Kakiemon elephants from Japan, (17th century AD)

  • Japanese prints including The Great Wave off Kanagawa, (1829–32)

South Asia

  • Excavated objects from the Indus Valley sites of Mohenjo-daro, and Harappa,Ancient India(now in Pakistan), (2500–2000 BC)

  • Sandstone fragment of a Pillar of Ashoka with Brahmi inscription from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, (238 BC)

  • The Kulu Vase found near a monastery in Himachal Pradesh, one of the earliest examples of figurative art from the sub-continent, northern India, (1st century BC)

  • Copper plate from Taxila, with important Kharoshthi inscription, Ancient India(now in Pakistan), (1st century BC – 1st century AD)

  • Indo-Scythian sandstone Mathura Lion Capital and Bracket figure from one of the gateways to the Great Stupa at Sanchi, central India, (1st century AD)

  • Bimaran Casket and Wardak Vase, reliquaries from ancient stupas in Afghanistan, (1st–2nd centuries AD)

  • Relic deposits from the stupas at Manikyala, Ahin Posh, Sanchi and Gudivada, (1st–3rd centuries AD)

  • Seated Buddha from Gandhara, and other Gandhara objects from Kafir Kot, Jamal Garhi and Takht-i-Bahi, Pakistan, (1st–3rd centuries AD)

  • The Buddhapad Hoard of bronze images from southern India, (6th–8th centuries AD)

  • Stone statue of Buddha from the Sultanganj hoard, Bihar, eastern India. (7th–8th centuries AD)

  • Statue of Tara from Sri Lanka and the Thanjavur Shiva from Tamil Nadu, southern India, (8th century & 10th century AD)

  • Statue of the goddess Ambika found at Dhar in central India, (1034 AD)

  • Sculpture of the two Jain tirthankaras Rishabhanatha and Mahavira, Orissa, India, 11th–12th century AD


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