19 July-October 15, 1995 Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

Mongolia: the legacy of Chinggis Khan

Exquisite riding saddles, priceless gilt bronze sculptures, fantastic religious masks and the spun-gold robes of state of Mongolia's last khan are among the 122 works showcased in the most significant exhibition of Mongolian art ever viewed in the West. Dating from the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries, the exhibition celebrates the Mongolian renaissance and the Mongolian attempt to recreate the unified, harmonious empire which had flourished under Chinggis Khan three centuries earlier.

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