Saturday, November 29, 2014

Chinese antique special occasion cups/bowl


Very fine Chinese Porcelain set of  two smaller and one medium and one  larger bowl for a special occasion.
\The bigger bowl is specially manufactured having  carved rim unlike usual round one and finely painted with floral decoration.
The one smaller cup is painted with a blue colored chicken image and the other one with  a red color dragon.
All the cups are original and  in good condition with no repair or restoration.
The manufacturer signatures are available on the bottom of the cups and bowl. 




Thursday, November 27, 2014

Gandhara, the precious art depicting advanced civilization.

The main literary notice of authentic Gandhara, the area that lies in the northwest of Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, was in the ninth century BCE. Through the following nine hundred years the area was vanquished by Alexander the Extraordinary, the Indian Mauryan line, the Parthians, the Indo-Greeks, lastly the Focal Asian Kushan Domain. This complex history, with its numerous social impacts, structured the establishment for an area  where Buddhism and Buddhist workmanship would thrive and create interesting qualities. 

This presentation investigates the essential qualities that make lives up to expectations from Gandhara of such significant social noteworthiness, emphasizing stone figures and reliefs, bronzes, and works in gold dating from the first century BCE to the fifth century CE—from the Indo-Greek through Kushan periods, and shutting with the beginnings of Sasanian lead there. The Buddhist Legacy of Pakistan is the first show to bring works of Gandharan workmanship from Pakistan to the United States in more than fifty years. 

Workmanship from Gandhara is eminent for its striking complex qualities, a hefty portion of which reflect complex associations with Greco-Roman and Parthian craftsmanship. The area was an intersection where the early impacts of the western traditional world met with Indian symbolism and nearby practices. In the meantime, Gandhara is likewise paramount for the interesting types of Buddhist symbolism that developed there. These incorporate a cluster of alleviation scenes from the life of the Buddha, pictures of different buddhas, and figures of bodhisattvas. 



The legacy of Gandharan Buddhism and its momentous craftsmanship can at present be located all through Asia. In spite of the fact that its heartland was found in present-day Pakistan, Gandharan society spread through Focal Asia and arrived at the Tarim Bowl. Numerous thoughts and pictures that created in Gandhara inevitably set out to China, and from that point to Korea and Japan. This phenomenal history makes Gandharan craft of persisting criticalness to research.

This art of the time compelled researchers to make probe into evolution of art and culture specially in a particular area of Pakistan called PUSHKLAWATI (An ancient name meaning " Home of daffodils:, the remnants of which are still fresh.This area is called Hashtnagar located near Peshawar.










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