Seattle Asian Art Museum

Horse, earthenware with traces of paint - China, Tang Period (618 - 907)

Detail view

Guanyin, 17th - 18th century - Dehua ware, Fujian Province, Quing Period

Detail view of crown

Deng Fen - detail view from Beauties, 1936, ink and color on paper

Zhou Leyuan - snuff bottle, 1897. This thing is smaller than your thumb, so the detail is impressive for it's size alone - but look at it again. All that detail? It's painted on the INSIDE of the bottle.

Guardians, 15th - 16th century, gilded bronze and pearl - China, Ming Dynasty. This is pretty much how excited I am to come in and work with clay every day: so excited that I will crush any barbarian that gets in my way.