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Storage jar with four loop handles; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Storage jar with four loop handles
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 3rd-6th century
Object Creation Date: 220-589
Accession Number: 1993/1.98
Medium and Support: stoneware with celadon glaze on upper half
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Container for vegetable tannin for ohaguro [square box with cover; the larger of two], from a bridal trousseau; Artist Unknown, Japan

Title: Container for vegetable tannin for ohaguro [square box with cover; the larger of two], from a bridal trousseau
Artist: Artist Unknown, Japan
Century: 17th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 1615-1867
Accession Number: 1955/1.161A&B
Medium and Support: wood with black, red, and gold lacquer
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Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Plate with Floral Design, one of five; Shibata Zeshin

Title: Plate with Floral Design, one of five
Artist: Shibata Zeshin
Physical Description: Autumn flowers are painted in colored lacquer on plates of gold leaf. The quiet, natural plant motifs stand out against the glittering square of gold.
Artist Life Dates: 1807-1891
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1879-1890
Accession Number: 1968/2.60
Medium and Support: clear lacquer over gold leaf and polychrome lacquer painting on paper
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Jadeite snuff bottle; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Jadeite snuff bottle
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1750-1825
Accession Number: 1980/2.7
Medium and Support: jadeite with jade, coral, ivory, chalcedony, pearls and lacquer
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Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Bilvamangala series: Krishna Venerated by People and Animals (fol. no. 8); India, Rajasthan, Mewar School; After

Title: Bilvamangala series: Krishna Venerated by People and Animals (fol. no. 8)
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
Physical Description: Ink, watercolor and gold on paper. Central figure, Vishnu with devotees on his right and left. Male figures are located on the left side of Vishnu and the female figures on the right. The animals are depicted on the lower half of the portrait which goes with traditional hierarchical beliefs. The tiger is on the left and the elephant on the right.
Century: late 17th - early 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1700
Accession Number: 1983/2.111
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Plate with gourd and vine design (one of five with 1964/1.100 and 102-104); Artist Unknown, Nabeshima ware, Japan

Title: Plate with gourd and vine design (one of five with 1964/1.100 and 102-104)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Nabeshima ware, Japan
Physical Description: The circular, smaller white porcelain plate has a design of gourds, flowers, vines and leaves around the rim. The gourds are outlined with blue underglaze and colored with yellow overglaze. Blue underglaze and transparent green overglaze are used for the leaves. The flowers and vines are drawn with red. The red enamel is worn off from some of the tendrils, a characteristic of 18th century Nabeshima. The reverse side has four clustered jewel or treasure motifs with four bows and streamers repeated three times. On the shallow foot, bold lines are drawn in a row like a comb. The design on the back is all drawn with blue underglaze. (Referencce: Becker, Sister Johanna. “A Group of Nabeshima Porcelain.")
Century: Early 18th century
Object Creation Date: early 18th century
Accession Number: 1964/1.101
Medium and Support: porcelain with blue underglaze and enamel overglaze painting
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Coin; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Coin
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1875-1908
Accession Number: 1982/1.269
Medium and Support: copper
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Krishna; Artist Unknown, India, Bengal

Title: Krishna
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 18th century
Accession Number: 1975/2.132
Medium and Support: brass
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Maebyeong (Wine Storage Bottle); Artist Unknown, Korea

Title: Maebyeong (Wine Storage Bottle)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: This Maebyeong is wide at the shoulder and gradually narrow down to the base. The neck is a little long and body is high.
Century: 11th century
Object Creation Date: 11th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.211
Medium and Support: stoneware with natural ash glaze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Molded porcelain snuff bottle with openwork design of dragon among clouds; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Molded porcelain snuff bottle with openwork design of dragon among clouds
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1790-1850
Accession Number: 1980/2.131
Medium and Support: porcelain with copper red glaze, silver and sapphire stopper
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Nandi (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India

Title: Nandi (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1979/2.74
Medium and Support: bronze
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Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Shigaraki ware storage jar; Shigaraki ware, Japan

Title: Shigaraki ware storage jar
Artist: Shigaraki ware, Japan
Physical Description: A large storage jar with round shoulder and shorter neck. The body is rather unevenly potted, showing bumps in some parts. The surface texture is uneven with speckles of white particles. Dark green, natural ash glaze drips on one side of the jar from top of the neck to the lower middle of the body. The rim of the neck is partially chipped and cracked. It has no foot.
Century: Late 16th-early 17th century
Object Creation Date: late 16th century - early 17th century
Accession Number: 1986/1.161
Medium and Support: stoneware with natural ash glaze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Anatomy of the Senses, from "Anatomy of Feelings"; Vladimir Yankilevsky

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Title: Anatomy of the Senses, from "Anatomy of Feelings"
Artist: Vladimir Yankilevsky
Artist Life Dates: Born 1938
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1972
Accession Number: 1980/2.243.17
Medium and Support: etching on paper
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Vase with "flambe" glaze and two dragon handles; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Vase with "flambe" glaze and two dragon handles
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: late 19th-early 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1900
Accession Number: 2002/2.9
Medium and Support: Porcelain with copper-red glaze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Tsuba (sword guard) with eight family crests; Artist Unknown, Japan

Title: Tsuba (sword guard) with eight family crests
Artist: Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description: Circular tsuba, made of iron. Inside an exterior circle, eight smaller circles are placed with the same spacing. The eight circles are connected to the exterior circle as well as to the three center holes where kôgai, blade, and kozuka are placed. Each of the eight circles have a different family crests. The openwork technique seen here is called "marubori" (round carving). The surface is slightly textured by minute stippling.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.7
Medium and Support: iron and gold
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Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Protective Amulet; Artist Unknown Taiwan

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Title: Protective Amulet
Artist: Artist Unknown Taiwan
Physical Description: Plaque in the form of a snarling lion's face holding a double-edged "severn star" (here only three of the seven stars are depicted as large dots connected by lines) sword in its mouth and ornamented with a red octagon containing the characters for "daqi" surrounded by eight trigrams on its forehead.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2006/2.44
Medium and Support: polychrome on wood
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Xing-type ware storage jar with four lugs; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Xing-type ware storage jar with four lugs
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: Globular-shaped footed stoneware vessel with four looped handles at lip and white glaze
Century: 9th-10th century
Object Creation Date: 9th century - 10th century
Accession Number: 1964/2.2
Medium and Support: porcellaneous stoneware with transparent ivory-toned glaze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Jain Tirthankara and a monk with animal forest scene, no. 12 from a Digambara series; Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School

Title: Jain Tirthankara and a monk with animal forest scene, no. 12 from a Digambara series
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
Physical Description: Two distinct registers divide a page in half. At the top, a yellow-orange colored nude jina sits in lotus position upon a three tiered throne [a patterned blue level at the bottom on feet, with an orange section with gold and red decoration and a green level at the top with gold vertical stripes]. He sits against a red background adorned with a pattern of three white dots. The background takes the shape of an elegant cusped arch with a green and white pattern along its outside with a gold pattern at its sides. To the right of the seated figure a nude Digambara monk sits with his legs folded and one knee up on a less elaborate throne with a lota or pot at the corner and a crossed bookstand to the side holding a book with some devanagari writing on it. He raises his right arm and holds his left to his ear.; Placed under a band of curving yellow stripes, the bottom register represents animals in a landscape. At the bottom are clumps of grass with four stylized mountain forms in blue at the right. Above the mountains stands a tiger facing a family of antelope striding towards him. The family consists of the blue male with his long spiraling horns and a yellow doe below him with a flesh-colored in front of her. Another small yellow fawn takes up the rear. Clumps of light blue and green grasses fill in the background.
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1975/2.178
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Sancai tomb guardian (one of a pair w/2004/2.132.2) with animal face and horns; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Sancai tomb guardian (one of a pair w/2004/2.132.2) with animal face and horns
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: Earthenware ceramic figure with tri-color glaze (in amber, cream and green) in the form of a creature with an animal face and horns
Century: 7th-8th century
Object Creation Date: circa 675-750
Accession Number: 2004/2.132.1
Medium and Support: earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Furo: brazier for heating water in tea kettle (in tea room); Artist Unknown, Japan

Title: Furo: brazier for heating water in tea kettle (in tea room)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Japan
Century: 19th century?
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1955/1.174
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Evening Scene in Tokyo: Woman with Umbrella on Bridge; Takahashi Hiroaki

Title: Evening Scene in Tokyo: Woman with Umbrella on Bridge
Artist: Takahashi Hiroaki
Physical Description: A woman who just got out of a public bath is crossing a bridge and trying to protect herself with an umbrella from the wind and rain of a sudden yûdachi. She uses one hand to keep her kimono decorated with fishing net and sea anemone patterns from flying open, and carries a soap pouch in her mouth. Three swallows fly above. The title, yu agari ("after the bath") is inscribed in the lower left hand corner of the print, just above a seal with the artist's name, Hiroaki.
Artist Life Dates: 1871-1944
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1920-1940
Accession Number: 1991/2.112
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Model cooking stove (mingqi: tomb object); Artist Unknown, China

Title: Model cooking stove (mingqi: tomb object)
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 206 BCE - 220 CE
Accession Number: 1974/1.174
Medium and Support: earthenware with green lead glaze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Durga; Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title: Durga
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century: 20th-century
Object Creation Date: circa 19th century - 20th century
Accession Number: 1975/2.107
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Mirror; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Mirror
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 960-1279
Accession Number: 1974/1.189
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

The Sixth Night Vigil from a Kalpasutra manuscript (fol. no. 38v), depicting two pairs of queens; Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat

Title: The Sixth Night Vigil from a Kalpasutra manuscript (fol. no. 38v), depicting two pairs of queens
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Physical Description: A scene in the life of Mahavira. The composition is designated a narrow strip near the left, while the rest of the page is used for text and red circles. The illustration is divided into two registers, with depictions of two women in each. The infant Mahavira is seen in his mother’s arms, at the upper left.
Century: 15th century
Object Creation Date: 1478
Accession Number: 1981/2.162
Medium and Support: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Small Oil Bottle; Artist Unknown, Korea

Title: Small Oil Bottle
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Object Creation Date: mid 12th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.237
Medium and Support: Stoneware with crackled celadon glaze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Coin; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Coin
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1736-1795
Accession Number: 1982/1.259
Medium and Support: copper
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Vishnu (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India

Title: Vishnu (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1977/2.120
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Anatomy of the Senses, from "Anatomy of Feelings"; Vladimir Yankilevsky

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Title: Anatomy of the Senses, from "Anatomy of Feelings"
Artist: Vladimir Yankilevsky
Artist Life Dates: Born 1938
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1972
Accession Number: 1980/2.243.4
Medium and Support: etching on paper
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Bencharong Ware Jar (tho); Artist Unknown, China

Title: Bencharong Ware Jar (tho)
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: Covered ceramic jar with brilliantly colored overglaze enamel painting in repreating floral patterns. A small base curves into a deep, wide bowl with a flaring mouth, in which the lid rests. The lid can be turned upside down to provide a shallow bowl, the base of which (or topmost portion of the lid) is encircled by gold and green bands.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 2005/1.476A&B
Medium and Support: porcelain with overglaze enamel painting
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

One of Four Panels of Textile Fragments: Obi Brocades; Artist Unknown, Japan

Title: One of Four Panels of Textile Fragments: Obi Brocades
Artist: Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description: The colorful strips of brocade at the top and bottom of this panel feature a woven design of ivy and peonies entwined around cartwheels, bamboo, and stylized diamonds. A wide rectangular fragment of an obi (sash for kimono) lie at the center of the textile. It is an almost abstract design of boats tossed in a frothy sea. The warm, muted tones of the gold are matched in color selections of mauve, and muted purple, blue, and green threads.
Century: 17th to 19th centuries
Object Creation Date: 17th century - 18th century
Accession Number: 1972/2.44.2
Medium and Support: brocade with gilt paper (kinran nishiki) & float stitch embroidery (watashi nui)
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Buddha, Seated in Bhumisparsa Mudrâ, on a Throne; Artist Unknown, Thailand

Title: Buddha, Seated in Bhumisparsa Mudrâ, on a Throne
Artist: Artist Unknown, Thailand
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 2005/1.449
Medium and Support: lacquered and gilt wood
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Small ear cup; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Small ear cup
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 206 BCE - 220 CE
Accession Number: 1990/1.262
Medium and Support: earthenware with calcinated green lead glaze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Ambika, Jaina; Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title: Ambika, Jaina
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.55
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Mirror; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Mirror
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 960-1279
Accession Number: 1974/1.229
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Four-armed Ganesha seated in the posture of Royal Ease; Artist Unknown, India, Kerala Workshop

Title: Four-armed Ganesha seated in the posture of Royal Ease
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Kerala Workshop
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1981/2.62
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Long-necked bottle with plant spray design; Artist Unknown, Korea

Title: Long-necked bottle with plant spray design
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Object Creation Date: 13th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.253
Medium and Support: stoneware with iron underglaze painting
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Chalcedony ornamental snuff bottle with floral and butterfly design; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Chalcedony ornamental snuff bottle with floral and butterfly design
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1912-1949
Accession Number: 1980/2.28
Medium and Support: chalcedony
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Durga?; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Durga?
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1977/2.137
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Hexagonal box with handpainted floral garland and lid; Kawai Kanjirô

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Title: Hexagonal box with handpainted floral garland and lid
Artist: Kawai Kanjirô
Physical Description: Lidded stoneware box with hexagonal base and sides. Decorated with blue, copper, and lead underglaze painting under translucent glaze.
Artist Life Dates: 1890 - 1966
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1941
Accession Number: 2003/2.10A&B
Medium and Support: stoneware with blue, copper and lead underglaze painting and translucent glaze
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Anatomy of the Senses, from the portfolio "Anatomy of Feelings"; Vladimir Yankilevsky

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Title: Anatomy of the Senses, from the portfolio "Anatomy of Feelings"
Artist: Vladimir Yankilevsky
Artist Life Dates: Born 1938
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1972
Accession Number: 1980/2.243.9
Medium and Support: etching on paper
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Sutra Fragment, Song-Style Typeface; Artist Unknown, China

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Title: Sutra Fragment, Song-Style Typeface
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 12th - 13th century
Object Creation Date: 12th century - 13th century
Accession Number: 2006/2.28
Medium and Support: woodblock print on paper
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Miniature Vase, with image of Shoki the Demon Queller (Hirado ware?); Artist Unknown, Japan

Title: Miniature Vase, with image of Shoki the Demon Queller (Hirado ware?)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Japan
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1860 - circa 1910
Accession Number: 1954/1.529
Medium and Support: stoneware with blue underglaze painting
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

One of Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables; Artist Unknown, Thailand

Title: One of Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables
Artist: Artist Unknown, Thailand
Physical Description: Gilt and lacquered wooden table of ten-piece altar set. Not including the base, the set is designed in three rows, which simultaneously recede from the viewer and increase in height, culminating in one central table that rises above the rest allocated for a statue of the Buddha. Each table is carved along the edges in stylized floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt. The wood surfaces of the tables are coated in red lacquer, and with the exclusion of the short, wide base, each table in the set includes a mirror designed to face the viewer.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 2005/1.466.9
Medium and Support: gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors
relevance: rank 3.87980
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)