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 Included in the Asia collections are utilitarian and decorative objects from China, spanning the centuries from 10,000 B.C. to A.D. 1980. Berthold Laufer, one of the Museum’s first curators of anthropology, acquired three-quarters of the collection between 1908 and 1923. Snuff bottles, rhinoceros-horn cups, cast iron implements, embroidered folk textiles, coins, and Han Dynasty ceramics are juxtaposed with religious puppets and Taoist and Buddhist sculptures, blending the worldly with the sacred. |
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