The 555 Artworks of media Silk and containing the word tang yin, silk, 500

Because of the poor condition of this fan—the edges frayed and the ivory ribs broken into pieces—the paintings on the two sides were recently separated, trimmed, and remounted as two hanging scrolls. Although neither signature nor seal is found on them, the paintings are unmistakably by Isai, the ar...

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A brilliant scholar whose official career was cut short by his inadvertent involvement in an examination scandal in 1499, Tang Yin spent his life pursuing the diversions of an eccentric scholarly playboy; his adventures eventually entered popular legend. While most of his paintings reflect a pleasur...

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Born the son of a merchant greengrocer, Ito Jakuchū’s artistic training was in the Chinese realist style popular of the day. However unsatisfied with this convention he developed his skills in an almost surrealistic direction that imbued his subjects with a strange sense of mysticism and philosophic...

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The elegantly brushed calligraphy on lavish decorated paper transcribes a series of classical waka poems from the Collection of Poems of a Thousand Years, Continued (Zoku senzai wakashū), an augmented fourteenth century version of the Senzai shū imperially-commissioned poetry anthology (ca. 1187/8)....

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Wen Zhengming had an original name called Wen Bi, and his courtesy name was Zhengming, which the painter mainly used to refer to himself. He later changed his courtesy name to Zhengzhong. His literary name was Hengshanjushi. Born in Changzhou (today’s Wuxian, Jiangsu province), he was once a Compili...

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The theme of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, which celebrates the landscape of an area in southern China where two rivers converge, emerged in painting and poetry in eleventh-century China. Thirteenth-century monochrome ink paintings of the theme found their way into Japanese collectio...

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The dress was made of rayon jersey, treated in bias cut to fit around the body. The surrounding sash has the effect of highlighting the sleek body. The dress is from Madeleine Vionnet/

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In 1928, when Elizabeth Hawes opened her salon in New York City, American women looked to Paris for couture garments, and American designers were copying the designs of the French couturiers. Hawes, however, constructed her designs to fit her clients/

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A-line, floor-length Evening dress in black silk gazar; round neckline; 3/4 length flared raglan sleeves; center front and back seams; tightly pleated bias-cut white organza ruffle at sleeve openings and hem; organza bow at apex; center back zipper closure; black silk lining. Label, in ink on twill ...

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The composition of this fragment of brocaded silk and chenille is typical of French taste of the time with its undulating floral design, interwoven with draping held by cords and tassels of great elegance and decorative effect.Produced in Lyon, it can be attributed to one of the most outstanding art...

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