Detail: Asia Week Hours: March 13-15 & 17-21, 10am-5pm (otherwise by appointment)

We are pleased to present Maps of Asia and Works of Art during this season’s Asia Week New York. The exhibition includes a selection of early western maps of Asia, a representative group of cartographers is highlighted by Maris Pacifici, by Abraham Ortelius. This map was published in 1589 in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. It was not only the first printed map of the Pacific, but it also showed the Americas for the first time. Also on view are Masterworks of Chinese Art from the Ming and Qing Dynasties including a Chinese Painted and Inlaid Lacquer Cabinet and a Chinese Mother of Pearl and Gold Foil inlaid Blossom-shaped Box, both from the Kangxi Period.