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Department of Asian Art. "Lacquerware of East Asia." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Landscape Painting in Chinese Art." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "List of Rulers of China." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Nature in Chinese Culture." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Neolithic Period in China." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Painting Formats in East Asian Art." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (386–589)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Qin Dynasty (221–206 B.C.)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Scholar-Officials of China." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Shang and Zhou Dynasties: The Bronze Age of China." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Tang Dynasty (618–906)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of Asian Art. "Zen Buddhism." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Hearn, Maxwell K. "Eternity." 82nd & Fifth. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. See more

Hearn, Maxwell K. "The Qing Dynasty (1644–1911): Loyalists and Individualists." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Hearn, Maxwell K. "The Qing Dynasty (1644–1911): Painting." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Hearn, Maxwell K. "The Qing Dynasty (1644–1911): The Courtiers, Officials, and Professional Artists." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Hearn, Maxwell K. "The Qing Dynasty (1644–1911): The Traditionalists." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Hearn, Maxwell. "Chinese Painting." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Kim, Hae Yeun. “East Asian Cultural Exchange in Tiger and Dragon Paintings.” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Leidy, Denise. "Divinity." 82nd & Fifth. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. See more

Liu, Shi-yee. "Metaphorical." 82nd & Fifth. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. See more

Moore, J. Kenneth. "The Pipa." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Moore, J. Kenneth. "The Qin." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Moore, J. Kenneth. "The Rag-dung (Cloisonné Trumpets)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Pyhrr, Stuart. "Head of Class." 82nd & Fifth. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. See more

Scheier-Dolberg, Joseph. "Dream Logic." 82nd & Fifth. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. See more

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James C. Y. Watt

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Bunker, Emma C., with contributions by James C. Y. Watt and Zhixin Sun. Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other Notable New York Collections. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. See more

D'Agostino, Paola, Ana Maria Falchetti, Mary Sprinson de Jesüs, Alisa LaGamma, Donald J. La Rocca, Eckhard Leuschner, Vivian B. Mann, Mary B. Moore, Christine I. Oaklander, Wendy Thompson, Andrew McDonald Watson, and James C. Y. Watt. Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, Vol. 43 (2008). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. See more

Houghton, James R., Katherine Baetjer, Dorothea Arnold, Joan Aruz, Carlos A. Picon, Peter Barnet, Everett Fahy, Keith Christiansen, Walter Liedtke, Colta Ives, George R. Goldner, Ian Wardropper, Thomas P. Campbell, Dita Amory, Laurence B. Kanter, Morrison H. Heckscher, J. Kenneth Moore, Hilde Limondjian, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J. La Rocca, Maxwell K. Hearn, James C. Y. Watt, Stefano Carboni, Julie Jones, Alisa LaGamma, Eric Kjellgren, Virginia-Lee Webb, Gary Tinterow, Malcolm Daniel, Harold Koda, and John P. O'Neill. Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977–2008. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. See more

Komaroff, Linda, and Stefano Carboni, eds., with essays by Morris Rossabi, Charles Melville, James C. Y. Watt, Tomoko Masuya, Sheila Blair, Robert Hillenbrand, Sarah Bertalan, John Hirx, Marco Leona, Pieter Meyers, Linda Komaroff, and Stefano Carboni. The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256–1353. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. See more

Leidy, Denise Patry. "Chinese Decorative Arts." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 55, no. 1 (Summer, 1997). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. See more

Watt, James C. Y. "A Sixteenth-Century Lacquered Chinese Box." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 37 (2002). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. See more

Watt, James C. Y. "The Arts of Ancient China." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 48, no. 1 (Summer, 1990). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990. See more

Watt, James C. Y., and Anne E. Wardwell, with an essay by Morris Rossabi. When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. See more

Watt, James C. Y., and Barbara Brennan Ford. East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991. See more

Watt, James C. Y., and Denise Patry Leidy. Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth-Century China. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. See more

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