MFA with Mark Slawson

Mark Slawson is music director at Second Parish Church in Hingham, and we've performed together for many years, and get together about once a month to tour a museum.  Mark wanted to see the studio where ancient Buddhist statues are being restored, so that was one goal, and the other, for me, was to see the new Asia wing, expanded and re-designed.
So here is part one.

Amida, Buddha of Infinite Light

Kamakura period, second half of the 13th century

Daiitoku myoo, the Wisdom King of Great Awe-inspiring Power

Heian period, 12t century

Miroku, the Bodhisattva of the Future

Kamakura period, 1189

Amida, Buddha of Infinite  Light

Heian period, 12th century

One of the Four Guardian Kings

Heian period, 9th century

restoration lab

Aizen myoo, King of Passion

Nanbokucho period, 14th century

Vase with  peach tree branches

Quin dynasty, Qianlong period, 1736-96

Attributed to Yan Liben, about 600-673

The Thirteen Emperors

Silk Scroll

Tang dynasty

Looking at a scroll painted 1300 years ago

Guanyin, Bodhisatva of Compassion

Jin dynasty, 1200

another view, above.

She looks as if she could suddenly stand up and walk away.

And those clothes!

signed by Abul-Qasim al-Kharrat

Tombstone

Iran, 1138

Elements of a sword belt

Iran, 17th or 18th century

Hafiz Osman

Calligraphic page

Turkey, 1697

Some of the most elegant art ever created.

And the metalwork!!!

Basin

Egypt, mid-13th century

Candlestick

Egypt or Syria, 1342-45

Door

Egypt(Cairo)  14th-15th centuries