The Gow Family Collection
The Naples Museum of Art
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fang hu vases Eastern Zhou: circa 450 BC
a pottery hu
Han: 206 BC-220 AD
owl jar - Western Han: 206 BC-27 AD		 Confucian Temple
Western Han: 206 BC-27 AD		 drummer
Eastern Han: 27-220 AD
musicians on horseback
Early T'ang: 618-907		 prancing horse T'ang: 618-907
Tomb Guardian
T'ang: 618-907		 musicians & dancers
Song Dynasty: 960-1279		 celadon plate Yuan: 1279-1368
sliver oboe - Tibet - ca: 1400 qin (lute) Ming (Wanli Period): 1573-1619
Lohan, Damo Ming Dynasty: 1368-1644
Lohan, Damo late Ming:
1600s		 incense burner late Ming:1600s
silk cloth
early Qing: 1600s
silk cloth
early Qing:
1600s		 First European Atlas of China: 1655- accurate
& highly decorated		 bowl - Kangxi Period: 1662-1722 side view of
the same bowl
Buddhist monks Qing:1655
2 ladies & a cat Kangxi Period: 1662-1722
a poem about a windy spring circa 1700
a poem about a pine tree in the wind circa 1700
scroll painting by
Li Yun: 1700s

family pleasure garden
Qing: 1700s

 elmwood shrine Qing: 1700s
gu form vases Qing: 1700s		 dragon collar
circa 1750
Goddess of Mercy ca. 1750
English book about China: 1740 the second volume of the same book Unnamed
Emperor
Qing: 1778		 Unnamed
Empress
Qing: 1778
Dragon Robe Qianlong Period: 1736-1796
porcelain vases Qianlong Period: 1736-1796
"nodding head" wife
28 inches tall circa 1780
"nodding head"
man
28 inches tall
circa 1780
"A Beauty" portrait
by Xi Gai:
1774-1823
"Peaches, 1894" painted by the Empress Dowager Cixi: 1835-1908