Hi, I'm Pericles of Athens, and welcome to my gallery page of photos I have taken myself or have scanned. Many of these images are photos I took in museums. Others come from books I own or have checked out from libraries. Some are simply public domain pictures of stamps that I've uploaded. There are also a lot of pictures I've uploaded from GaryLeeTodd.com, a site managed by a professor who has given me permission to upload his photos.
Images from Baidu
Photographs from Flickr
Photographs by Gary Lee Todd
- File:S-115 W Han wuzhu, Han Xuandi, 74-48 BC, 25 5mm.jpg
Freer Gallery of Art
China Gallery
- Han Dynasty chimera (qilin)
- Bronze horse, Han Dynasty
- Bronze gaming vessel for darts, Han Dynasty
- A Western Zhou Dynasty bronze gui vessel
- An Eastern Zhou Dynasty bronze ding vessel
- An Eastern Han Dynasty bronze mirror with incised designs
- A red lacquerware tray with gold engravings, Song Dynasty
- Ritual bronze wine container in the shape of an animal, 10th century BC, Western Zhou Dynasty
- A golden canteen with design of a flying dragon, 15th century, Ming Dynasty
- Two Western Zhou Dynasty ritual containers
- Two Western Zhou Dynasty ritual containers
- An Eastern Zhou Dynasty bronze musical bell
- Western and Eastern Zhou Dynasty bronze vessels
- An Eastern Zhou Dynasty bronze basin
- A bronze ritual wine container in the shape of an owl, 11th century BC, Shang Dynasty
- A bronze ritual wine container with a looped handle, 11th century BC, Shang Dynasty
- A Western Han Dynasty bronze tripod lamp
- A Western Han Dynasty gilt-bronze lamp set
- A Han Dynasty bronze horse with plume and saddle
- Rear view of the Han Dynasty bronze horse
- A bronze ritual wine container, 12th or 11th century BC, Shang Dynasty
- A bronze animal, possibly a tapir, c. 500 BC, Eastern Zhou Dynasty
- A Northern Qi Buddhist relief of the Western Paradise
- A Sui Dynasty stoneware pilgrim flask
- A Tang Dynasty bronze mirror with dragon
- A red lacquerware tray, 14th century, Yuan Dynasty
- A bronze ritual food container, 10th century BC, Western Zhou Dynasty
- A Tang Dynasty bronze mirror with mythical animals
- A Tang Dynasty stoneware ewer
- A limestone statue of a mourning attendant, 7th century, Tang Dynasty
- A square bronze and lacquerware mirror with a silver and gold fenghuang motif, 8th century AD, Tang Dynasty
- A Tang Dynasty bronze mirror
- Miniature stoneware items, 7th to 8th century, Tang Dynasty
- A leaping lion, bronze with gilding, 7th to 8th century, Tang Dynasty
- A Song Dynasty stoneware jar
- A Song Dynasty painting of Tao Yuanming
- A Song Dynasty porcelain bottle
- A Song Dynasty lacquerware tray
- A Song Dynasty stoneware vase
- Stoneware tea bowls, 12th or 13th century, Song Dynasty
- Song and Jin porcelain bowls and dishes
- A Jin Dynasty wooden bodhisattva statue
- A Song Dynasty stoneware tea bowl resting on a Ming Dynasty stand
- A Yuan Dynasty stoneware incense burner
- A Ming Dynasty wardrobe made of rosewood
- A Ming Dynasty lacquerware container
- A red lacquerware dish, 15th or 16th century, Ming Dynasty
- A Ming Dynasty painting
- A Ming Dynasty painting
- Ming or Qing bamboo brush holder
- A Qing Dynasty painting
- A Chinese jade figurine, 4th century BC, Eastern Zhou Dynasty
- A Chinese jade wine cup, 2nd century BC, Western Han Dynasty
- Red lacquerware tray, 12th to 13th century, Song Dynasty
- A bronze statuette of a foreign Central Asian dancer, 7th to 8th century AD, Tang Dynasty
- A small red lacquerware container for crickets, design of a dragon on the side, from the reign of the Jiajing Emperor (1521-1567 AD)
- A bronze chariot fitting with gold, silver, and glass decoration, c. 300–250 BC, Eastern Zhou Dynasty
- A bronze chariot fitting with gold, silver, and glass decoration, c. 300–250 BC, Eastern Zhou Dynasty
- Buddha and bodhisattvas, bronze with gilding, 597 AD, Sui Dynasty
- A bronze ritual bell with tiger decorations, 10th or 9th century BC, Western Zhou Dynasty
- A bronze mirror with raised-relief decorations of wedding flowers, 8th century, Tang Dynasty
- A bronze garment hook inlaid with gold and turquoise, 3rd century BC, Eastern Zhou Dynasty
- Bronze belt hook inlaid with gold, 2nd or 1st century BC, Western Han Dynasty
- Belt buckle and ornaments, made of bronze and copper with gilding, late 6th century, Sui Dynasty
Egypt, Japan, Tibet, Persia, Korea, Middle East, Vietnam, Nepal
- (One of four) Wooden Japanese Buddhist guardian (lokapala) of the East, Kamakura period
- An Egyptian coffin mask from the New Kingdom
- A Japanese seated Bodhisattva, made of wood with lacquer, gold, copper, and crystal, made by the sculptor Kaikei (fl. 1185–1220 AD), Kamakura period
- Japanese wooden statue of Bodhisattva Jizō, with applied gold relief, Kamakura period
- Kamakura period Japanese guardian figure statues
- A Kamakura period Japanese Amida Buddha statue
- A Kamakura period Japanese painting
- (Two of four) Wooden Japanese Buddhist guardians (lokapala), Kamakura period
Metropolitan Museum of Art
From book sources
- East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, by Ebrey, Walthall, and Palais
- A Song Dynasty painting of an outdoor banquet
- Freer Gallery of Art Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition II, Chinese Figure Painting, by Thomas Lawton
- Luohan Laundering, by Lin Tinggui, 1178 AD, Song Dynasty
- Cambridge Illustrated History of China, by Patricia Ebrey
- A 10th-century painting showing the Buddhist monasteries of Mount Wutai, from the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang
- A hydraulic mill for grain, Song Dynasty
- Chinese embroidered silk gauze, 4th century BC
- Western Han Dynasty painting on silk
- Traveling on the River in Clearing Snow, by Guo Zhongshu, 10th century, Song Dynasty
- Puppeteers draw a crowd, 14th century, Yuan Dynasty
- A mural painting of theatre actors, 14th century, Yuan Dynasty
- Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: the Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China, by Ann Paludan
- A mural showing palace eunuchs, from the tomb of Li Xian, Crown Prince Zhanghuai, Tang Dynasty
- A mural showing a city gate tower, from the tomb of Li Chongrun, Crown Prince Yide, Tang Dynasty
- A mural of palace ladies in a garden, from the tomb of Li Xian, Crown Prince Zhanghuai, Tang Dynasty
- A mural showing foreign ambassadors, from the tomb of Li Xian, Crown Prince Zhanghuai, Tang Dynasty
- The Jiajing Emperor on his state barge, Ming Dynasty
- The Genius of China, by Robert Temple
- A pair of guardian spirits for different hours of day and night, respectively, a painted ceramic tile from the Han Dynasty
- Principles of Correct Diet, by Hu Sihui, Yuan Dynasty, 1330 AD
- The process of sublimation of calomel, or mercury(I) chloride, from the Essentials of the Pharmacopoeia Ranked According to Nature and Efficacy; Imperially Commissioned, 1505 AD, Ming Dynasty, edited by Liu Wentai
- T'ien-Kung K'ai-Wu: Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century, by Song Yingxing (translated by E-tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun in 1966)
- A rotary fan winnowing machine
- Casting a tripod, bell, and statue
- Hydraulic-powered trip hammers
- Science and Civilization in China: Volume 5, Part 7, by Joseph Needham
- Chinese fire ships, Wujing Zongyao (1044)
- Chinese flamethrower, Wujing Zongyao (1044)
- Chinese gunpowder formula, Wujing Zongyao (1044)
- Bird with incendiary around its neck, Wujing Zongyao (1044)
- Chinese naval mine, Huolongjing, 14th century
- Chinese multistage rocket, Huolongjing, 14th century
- Chinese fire lance, Huolongjing, 14th century
- Chinese cannon, Huolongjing, 14th century.
- The 'Flying Crow with Magic Fire', an aerodynamic winged rocket bomb, Huolongjing, 14th century
- Self-tripped trespass land mine, Huolongjing, 14th century
- Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Part 3, by Joseph Needham
- Diagram of corbel brackets from a cross section of a hall, from Li Jie's Yingzao Fashi published in 1103.
- Bracket arm clusters containing cantilevers, Yingzao Fashi (1103)
- Transverse corbel brackets, Yingzao Fashi (1103)
- Bracket and cantilever arms, Yingzao Fashi (1103)
- Science and Civilization in China: Volume 3, by Joseph Needham.
- A Song Dynasty terrain map of 1137 with a graduated scale of 100 li
- Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Part 2, by Joseph Needham
- Original diagram of Su Song's clocktower, 1092.
- The original illustration of the chain drive from the book written by Su Song on his clock tower of Kaifeng, 11th century, Song Dynasty
- A field mill in the Diagrams and explanations of the wonderful machines of the Far West by Johann Schreck and Wang Zheng (王徵), published 1627, Ming Dynasty
- Angler on a Wintry Lake, by Ma Yuan, 1195 AD, earliest artistic depiction of a fishing reel
- Science and Civilization in China: Volume 5, Part 1, by Joseph Needham
- A playing card from the early Ming Dynasty, circa 1400 AD
- The Arts of China: Fourth Edition, by Michael Sullivan
- Woven silk from Mawangdui
- Painted figures on a lacquerware basket, Eastern Han Dynasty
- Portrait of the Yongle Emperor, 15th century, Ming Dynasty
- Pomegranates, woodblock print, Ming Dynasty
- Fishermen Returning Through a Wintry Forest, by Tang Di, 1338, Yuan Dynasty
- Detail of the Nine Dragons Scroll, by Chen Rong, 1244 AD, Song Dynasty
- Autumn Colors on Rivers and Mountains, Northern Song Dynasty
- Detail of Sakyamuni cuts his hair, from Dunhuang, Tang Dynasty
- Riders on Horseback, 6th century, Northern Qi
- Lacquer painting over wood, 4th to 6th century, Northern Wei
- The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, by Karl Galinsky
- Augustus, 30 BC.
- "Brilliant Artifacts" in Recarving China's Past, by Cary Y. Liu
- Ink rubbing of a 2nd century AD Eastern Han Dynasty raised-relief image of horses, chariots, and riders
- Ink rubbing of a 2nd century AD Eastern Han Dynasty raised-relief image of a battle scene at a bridge
- Painting of a watchtower, from the Eastern Han Dynasty
- A Western Han Dynasty triangular hollow tomb tile with painted dragon and armed warrior design
- Recarving China's Past, edited by Naomi Noble Richard
- Painted bronze mirror, Han Dynasty
- Artisans in Early Imperial China, by Anthony Barbieri-Low
- Mawangdui silk map
- Horizon Book of World Arts
- Painted figures on a lacquerware basket, Eastern Han Dynasty
- "Mediums and Messages: The Wu Family Shrines and Cultural Production in Qing China," in Rethinking Recarving China's Past: Ideals, Practices and Problems of the "Wu Family Shrines" and Han China, by Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng
- Story of Jin Midi, ink rubbing of an Eastern Han Dynasty raised-relief from the Wu Family Shrines in Shandong province
- "Pleasure Tower Model" in Recarving China's Past, by Nancy N. Steinhardt
- A stone-carved pillar-gate of the 2nd century AD, Eastern Han Dynasty, located at the Wu Family Shrine in Shandong province
- "Constructing Citang in Han" in Rethinking Recarving China's Past, by Michael Nylan
- Ink rubbing of a Han Dynasty raised-relief image showing an ancestral worship hall (citang 祠堂)
- The Arts of China, 900–1620, by William Watson
- Two horsemen in a wintry landscape, by Liang Kai, 13th century, Song Dynasty
- Fishing on a Snowy River, by Xu Daoning, 11th century, Song Dynasty
- The Art of Chinese Landscape Painting, by Anil de Silva
- Gentlemen in conversation, tomb mural from the Eastern Han Dynasty
- Han Civilization, by Wang Zhongshu
- A tomb mural painting of a servant, Han Dynasty
Song Yingxing's Tiangong Kaiwu Encyclopedia
These following images I've uploaded were not taken in any of my own photographs, but they were published in a Chinese Ming Dynasty encyclopedia in the year 1637, which makes them all public domain.
- Chinese molten iron puddle and blast furnace
- Two designs for hydraulic-powered chain pumps
- A two-masted ship
- A giant draw loom for weaving
- A farmer using a pulley to lift a bucket
- Crushing cane with an ox-powered vertical-toothed roll crusher
- An ox-driven grinding mill
- Three more designs for chain pumps
Other Public Domain images
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