A sample of Chinese ceramic and visual art from the Sui through Song dynasties, especially ceramics, and bronzes.

1. Sui-Tang-Song
Visual and Material Culture

2. Chronology
• Sui (589-618)
• Tang (618-960)
– An Lu-shan Rebellion (755-783)
– Huang Chao Rebellion (875- )
• "Five [Northern] Dynasties and Ten
[Southern] Kingdoms" (907-960)
• Song (960-1279)
– Wang An-shih reforms (1069-1073)
– Southern Song (1115-1279)

3. Sui-Tang

4. Early/Northern Song

5. Southern Song

6. Tang Buddhism

7. Tang White Porcelain

8. Tang Clay: Horses, Women

9. Tang Clay:
Ewer, Grave
Guardian

10. Tang Grave
guardian

11. Tang
Bronze
Mirrors

12. Song Landscapes

13. Song Ceramics:
incised, Celadon

14. Song Lacquer

15. Song
Jades

16. Qing Version of Song Scroll:
City of Cathay

17. City of Cathay: Palace

18. City of Cathay: Mansion and
Garden

19. City of Cathay: Pavilion

20. City of Cathay: Marketplace

21. City of Cathay: Transport

22. City of Cathay:
Bridge, Palanquin

23. City of Cathay: Children

24. City of Cathay: Teahouse

25. Sources
• City of Cathay scroll donated by Kathy
Fischer
• Nelson-Atkins Museum and Smithsonian
Sackler Museum pictures by Jonathan
Dresner
– http://flickr.com/photos/jondresner
• Maps from Stearns, et al, World
Civilizations: the Global Experience, 2011
• Finlay MacKenzie, Chinese Art, Spring Art
Books, revised, 1964.