SJSU Art History and Visual Culture
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Central Asian Works:

 

Central Asian
Appliqué of a Tiger with Antlers
c. 600-500 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Appliqué of Two Roosters
c. 500-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Arrowhead with a Bird and an Antelope Head
c. 700-600 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
The Attack of Mara
c. 600-700, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Axe
c. 800-600 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Axe Head decorated with the Head of a Horse
c. 2000 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle in the Form of a Horse
c. 500-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle with a Tiger and a Monster
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle with Figures under a Tree
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle with Griffin Heads
c. 520-480 BCE, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with a Monster Attacking a Horse
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with a Vulture Mauling a Yak and a Tiger
c. 400-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with Boar Hunting Scene
c. 300-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with Dragons and Tree of Life
c. 200-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Bow-Case Ornament in the Form of a Stag with Superimposed Animals
c. 500-300 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Bowl with Herakles
c. 500-700, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
A Brahman
c. 800-900, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Bridle
c. 550-450 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Bridle
c. 300-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Bridle
c. 350-250 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Bridle Ornament with Two Griffin Heads
c. 600-500 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
The Buddha Preaching
c. 600-650, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Carpet with Riders
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Cauldron with Palmettes and Stylized Bucrania
c. 375-325 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Comb with Battle Scene
c. 530-490 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

   

Central Asian
Contemplative Figure
c. 800-900, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
The Cowherd Nanda
c. 500, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Cup with Agricultural and Ceremonial Scenes
c. 2000 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Central Asian
Cup with Crenellated Decoration
c. 2000 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Central Asian
Dagger
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Dagger decorated with Griffin's Heads
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

   

Central Asian
Decoration with Feline Motif
c. 580-500 BCE, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Central Asian
Deer-Shaped Plaque
c. 650-600 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Demon with a Lamp
c. 800-900, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Dragon in a Lake
c. 800-900, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Earring
c. 500-450 BCE, National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana

 

Central Asian
Griffin Head Bridle Decorations
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Central Asian
Group of Donors (?)
c. 700-900, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Head of a Buddha
c. 400-600, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Head of Mahakashyapa
c. 600-700, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Horse-Shaped Plaque
c. 700-600 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
A Lokapala (Virudhaka?)
c. 800-900, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
The Miraculous Crossing of the Ganges
c. 600-650, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Mirror with Stags and a Mountain Goat
c. 800-600 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Mounted Rider
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Central Asian
Necklace
c. 450-400 BCE, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

 

Central Asian
Overlay for a Bow-Case and Quiver
c. 400-300 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Pazyryk Carpet
c. 350 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

     

Central Asian
Pegasus Rhyton
c. 1000-700 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Phalera with Fighting Camels
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Central Asian
Plaque from a Wooden Vessel with Winged Figure and Lions
c. 700-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Plaque in the Form of a Coiled Panther
c. 700-600 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Plaque in the Form of a Wild Sheep
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Central Asian
Plaque with a Feline Attacking a Stag
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Central Asian
Plaque with a Mounted Archer
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Central Asian
Plaque with a Scythian Horseman
c. 450-350 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Plaque with a Winged Leopard Attacking a Goat
c. 450 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Plaque with Stags and Panthers
c. 650-600 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Plaque with Two Scythian Archers
c. 450-350 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Central Asian
Rhyton Fragment with a Goddess and a Horseman
c. 300-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Rhyton with Ram Protome
c. 400-350 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Rug with Lions' Heads
c. 500-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Saddle Cover Fragment with a Griffin
c. 350-250 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Scale Armor
c. 500-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Scene of the Buddha Preaching
c. 600-700, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Scene of the Buddha Preaching
c. 600-700, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Scene of the Buddha Preaching
c. 800-900, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Seated Female Figure
c. 2000 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Central Asian
Seated Female Figure
c. 2000 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Central Asian
Seated Vajrapani
c. 500, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Spiral Bracelet with Zoomorphic Terminals
c. 100 BCE - 100 CE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Spoon with Animal Decoration
c. 600-400 BCE, National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana

 

Central Asian
Stag
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Central Asian
Stag
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Central Asian
Stag Head Plaque
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Central Asian
Stag Head Plaque
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Central Asian
Stag-Shaped Finial
c. 375-325 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Stag-Shaped Finial
c. 500-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Stag-Shaped Finial
c. 700-600 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Stag-Shaped Plaque
c. 700-500 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Stag-Shaped Plaques
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Central Asian
Standing Buddha
c. 600-700, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Standing Buddha
c. 600-700, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Standing Buddha
c. 700-900, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Swimmers
c. 500, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Sword
c. 100 BCE - 100 CE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Sword with Decorated Scabbard
c. 700-600 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

   

Central Asian
Textile Fragment with a Winged Stag-Demon
c. 500-300 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Three Half-Figures: King Ajatashatru, his Wife, and his Minister Varshakara (?)
c. 600-650, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Tiger Head Bridle Ornament
c. 600-500 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Torc with Horned and Winged Lions
c. 400-250 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

   

Central Asian
Torque with Zoomorphic Terminals
c. 400-300 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Uighurian Prince
c. 800-900, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Uighurian Princes
c. 800-900, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Uighurian Princesses
c. 800-900, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

 

Central Asian
Vessel with Elk-Shaped Handle
c. 1-100, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

   

Central Asian
Vessel with Hunting Scenes
c. 400-375 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

       

Central Asian
Vessel with Lions Attacking a Deer
c. 400-300 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Vessel with Scythians
c. 350-300 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

     

Central Asian
Weight in the Form of a Standing Bull
c. 2000 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Central Asian
Wolf Head Plaques
c. 400-300 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Ufa

 

Central Asian
Worhipping Bodhisattva
c. 700-900, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin