Works of Asian art collected by the Cantor Arts Center the past 10 years are showcased in "From the Bronze Age of China to Japan's Floating World" through Oct. 18.

The exhibit includes Chinese, Korean and Japanese works from the 11th to the 3rd century B.C. and from the early-19th to the mid-20th centuries. Students in a Stanford University seminar taught by Cantor curator of Asian art Xiaoneng Yang and professor Richard Vinograd earlier this year helped select the works, signage and essays for the show.

Vinograd, the Christensen Professor in Asian art at Stanford, said the exhibit's theme is transmission "over time, between Asian cultures and between Asia and the Western world."

The earliest works come from China's Zhou dynasty, which ruled between the 11th and 3rd centuries B.C., and include a bronze rice steamer.

The show also features a pair of water drippers in the form of peaches — a symbol of longevity — from 18th- to 19th-century Korea. Made of white porcelain with red and blue decoration, they were used to dilute and blend ground ink used in calligraphy and painting.

A woman's robe from the late 19th century is made of bright blue silk brocade ornamented with embroidery and trimmed with white goat hair.

The display also includes a set of prints by 19th-century Japanese printmaker Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, from the series "New Forms of 36 Ghosts." Yoshitoshi was acreator of "ukiyo-e" (pictures of the floating world), prints and paintings of actors, courtesans and scenes capturing the transitory pleasures of life, a form popular during the Edo period of Japan (1615-1868).

Japanese artist Yozo Hamaguchi's 1962 work "One Cherry" is a mezzotint printed in France. The mezzotint is a 17th-century European reproduction technique made obsolete by photography. Hamaguchi helped gain credibility for the form as an artistic expression.

Woodcut prints, calligraphy and sculpture also are part of the show at the Cantor, off Palm Drive at Museum Way on the Stanford University campus. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays, with evening hours extended to 8 p.m. Thursdays. Admission is free.