Sentence examples for western collections from inspiring English sources

Mr. Tai's porcelains that could be shown to have belonged to early Western collections likewise hit the roof.

As with most Western collections of art from Africa, the one here is made up primarily of wood sculpture.

The premium given to sculpture long ensconced in Western collections rose higher still when Roman sculpture came up.

The museum's curator, Jack Becker, has arranged the 26 paintings borrowed from many Western collections into a series of rooms focusing on a particular theme.

Mr. Koenig, who said it was rare to find a complete mask like this in Western collections, called the mask "a sure hit with kids".

Even with international loans harder and harder to negotiate and in some cases politically impossible, Western collections are well enough stocked to make home-grown Islamic shows feasible.

RYE "The Western Collection," paintings by Joseph Fama.

In Japan, her treasures were displayed at the Tokyo National Museum in 1985, the first Western collection of Japanese art to be shown there.

At Donna Karan, a fitted top covered in long leather fringe was the pièce de résistance in her predominantly Western collection.

(It's included with two other Mann-Stewart Westerns, "The Far Country" and "Bend of the River," in a six-disk boxed set from Universal, "James Stewart: The Western Collection").

In 1704 Antoine Galland started translating and adapting the text into French, the first Western collection of these stories, and it launched a fashion for Orientalism in Europe, which lasted well into the late nineteenth century.