The wise find pleasure in water
The virtuous find pleasure in mountains.
-The Analects of Confucius (c. 6th-5th century B.C.)

This exhibition draws upon material from the National Gallery of Victoria’s important collection of Asian art. It includes objects from the 14th to the 21st century such as landscapes or 'mountains and streams' depicted in paintings on scrolls and on porcelains, Daoist mountains carved in jade, cosmic bronze mountains as well as black-and-white photographs of sacred mountains in China. It also includes so-called 'dream stones' (marble plaques evocative of misty mountains).

WANG Jian (1598�1677), Chinese, Qing dynasty Landscape after Zhao Mengfu, 1676. National Gallery of Victoria, Felton Bequest, 1991