Art & Art History 

Spouted ritual wine vessel (guang), Shang dynasty, early Anyang period (ca. 1300–1050 B.C.), 13th century B.C.
Possibly Anyang, Henan Province, China
Bronze; W. 13 in. (33 cm)
Collection of the Metropolitain Museum of Art.

FAL web page: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/finearts

VIRGO - Keyword chinese and bronze*

Databases

(BAS) Bibliography of Asian Studies
References western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.

Art Index
Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world since 1929.

Avery Index
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage is from the 1930s

EbscoHost
A very inter-disciplinary database, that includes historical, cultural, literary, artistic, and other journals, as well as news sources. 

JStor
Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals in areas such as anthropology, asian studies, ecology, economics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, sociology, and statistics. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present.

Grove Art Online (Now Oxford Art!)
Access to over 41,000 articles on the arts and cultures of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific as well as links to tens of thousands of images.

Oxford Reference Online
A large collection of basic information on many subjects (including art, philosophy, and religion) drawn from reference books published by Oxford University Press.

Web Resources

• Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
  
• UVa East Asia Center
  Includes links to sites on Asian studies throughout the world.
  
• Pin-yin/Wade-Giles conversion table

Museum Web Sites

• Digital Library and Museum of Buddhist Studies
  "A truly 'Comprehensive Cyberspace for Buddhist Studies' "
  
• Musee Guimet
  
• Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art

Print Resources

Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography, v. 1-2 (FA-REF N8193.A4 L644 1999)
The Cambridge History of Ancient China (FA-STKS DS741.5 .C35 1999)