Slide Images for October 2

 Composition

Fua Haribhitak

1955

 Musical Rhythm

Khien Yimsiri

1949

 Harmony

Khien Yimsiri

1960

Selling Fish

Hendra Gunawan

1974

 Borobudur – A Moment of Contemplation

Srihadi Sudarsono

1982

 Borobudur 

Srihadi Sudarsono

1994

 Horizon-The Serenity of Borobudur 

Srihadi Sudarsono

2004

Arahmaiani

Handle without care

1996

Slide Images for September 30

 Reconstructed Dinh

Dinh Bang, Vietnam

1736 (orignal)

 Temple of Literature (Confucian Temple)

Hanoi, Vietnam

1070

 The Khue Van Cac Pavilion

Temple of Literature, Hanoi, Vietnam

1805

 Stone Tablets

Temple of Literature, Hanoi, Vietnam

1442-1779

 One Pillar Pagoda

Hanoi, Vietnam

11th Century

 The Honor Courtyard of The Nguyen Dynastic Mausoleum

Hue, Vietnam

1920-1930

 Quan Am (Avalokiteshvara)

Bac Ninh, Vietnam

17th Century

 The Phuoc Duyen Tower

Lihn Mu Pagoda, Vietnam

1844

 The Baba & Nyonya Heritage Museum (Originally the Chan House)

Malacca, Malaysia

1896

 Interior View: The Baba & Nyonya Heritage Museum (Originally the Chan House)

Malacca, Malaysia

1896

Ancestral Altar of the Chan Family in the Baba & Nyonya Heritage Museum

Malacca, Malaysia

Victorian era

Terms of the Day for September 30

• Dinh – a community house which serves as a shrine for the guardian spirit of villages in Vietnam.  During Chinese rule, a village was required to apply for permission to build a dinh.
• Confucianism –  a Chinese ethical and philosophical system developed from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius whose core teaching was humanism, the belief that human beings are teachable, improvable and perfectible through personal and communal endeavor.
• Peranakan –  a term which refers to the descendants of noble Chinese who migrated to the British Straits Settlements of Malacca and adopted the local Malay culture through intermarriage. 

Slide Images for September 28

 Kendi

c. 15th - 16th century

Vietnam

 Sawankhalok Figurines

Thailand

15th century

 Sukhothai Celadon Bottle

Thailand

15th century

 Stoneware Naga Finial

Sawankhalok, Ayutthaya Period

Early 16th century

 Blue and White Ceramic Tradeware

Hanoi, Vietnam

15th century

 Liong Hok Bio Chinese Temple

Magelang, Java

Gateway to the Kasepuhan Kraton

Cirebon, West Java

17th century

Terms of the Day for September 28

• Kendi – an earthenware flask with a neck and spout, usually for drinking water.
• Celadon – a green glaze used in pottery, invented in China and widely adopted in Thailand, produced by the reaction of differing amounts of iron oxide in the solution to a burning atmosphere.
• Sawankhalok – a city and kiln site in Thailand that produced ceramics in high quantities during the Sukhothai and Ayutthaya periods.
• Finial –  an architectural device, typically carved in stone and employed decoratively to emphasize the apex of a gable or any of various distinctive ornaments at the top, end, or corner of a building or structure.