Ancient and Modern China and South Asia in 10 Objects | British Museum Tour of the Hotung Gallery

Because you've asked for it, we've decided to take our Curators' Tour series into one of the permanent galleries of the British Museum. But it's not just any gallery. The Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia is a whopping 115 metres long and covers 1.5 million
years of history. In fact this gallery is so large (the longest in the British Museum), it takes 5 curators just to tackle the geography and time periods the gallery covers.

So join curators Ruiliang Liu, Yu-Ping Luk, Wenyuan Xin, Sushma Jansari and Imma Ramos for a highlights tour of the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia.

You can find out more about the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia here: https://bit.ly/3vJuHho

00:20 Intro to Hotung Gallery
00:42 Bronze Ding, 13th-11th Century BC
03:54 Wall Painting of 3 Bodhisattvas, 15th Century
08:20 Model of a Horse, 8th Century BC
12:19 Seated Figure of Zhenwu, 15th Century
15:23 Ceramic Sculpture (Peacock) by Caroline Cheng, 2012
19:07 Indus Valley Seal Stones, 2600-1900 BC
21:37 Herakles and Vajrapani, 2nd Century BC and 2nd/3rd Century AD
24:36 Amaravati Drum, 1st Century BC - 3rd Century AD
27:35 Mughal Huqqa Bases, 18th Century AD
30:00 Shadow Puppet Representing Mohandas Gandhi

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