Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, MA, purchased from the estate of Rhode Island Senator Theodore Francis Green, June 1968; bequest to Harvard Art Museum
Framed section of an illustrated Buddhist manuscript; ink and color on paper. Reportedly retrieved from Dunhuang, Gansu province.
8th-9th centuryChineseOne of fifty-four paintings (originally fifty-five); ink and color on paper
20th centuryChinesePigment on plaster
ChineseBanner; ink and color on silk. Reportedly retrieved from Dunhuang, Gansu province.
9th centuryChineseInk and color on silk
ChineseAlbum leaf; ink and color on paper
ChineseAlbum leaf; ink and light color on paper
ChineseAlbum leaf (one from a set of eight); ink on paper
17th centuryChineseOne leaf from an album of eleven (originally twelve) leaves; ink and color on paper; with signature of the artist reading 'Zixiang'
19th centuryChineseOne leaf from an album of nine leaves; ink and light colors on paper
19th centuryChinesesimulated wall-painting fragment: pigments on specially prepared cardboard
20th centuryChineseFramed upper portion of a hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk
18th centuryChinese