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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
2005/1.466.4
Medium and Support
gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
Title
Jina, fragment of a larger shrine
Artist
Artist Unknown, India
Century
20th-century
Object Creation Date
circa 15th century
Accession Number
1975/2.123
Medium and Support
copper
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
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
2005/1.466.6
Medium and Support
gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
Title
The Good Thief on the Cross
Artist
Artist Unknown, School of Kalkar, Germany
Physical Description
A bearded man, wearing a loincloth and a long trailing headband, hangs from a cross by his arms, which have split open beneath the ropes that bind them. His left leg hangs downward and passes behind his right foot, which perches precariously on a forked branch. He strains to his left and gazes upward with his mouth open in a tortured movement augmented by the dramatic sweeps of drapery that frame his torso.
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1520
Accession Number
1976/1.233
Medium and Support
walnut with polychrome
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
Title
Enthroned Madonna and Child with angels and Saints Louis of Toulouse, Zenobius, John the Evangelist, and John the Baptist
Artist
Jacopo del Casentino
Physical Description
The majestic figure of the Virgin with the infant Christ on her lap sits enthroned in the center of this painted panel. Her elaborate throne rests upon a dais and is enclosed on three sides by panels bristling with Gothic ornament. Two bishop saints holding croziers stand at the foot of the dais accompanied by two other saints who stand behind them, while fourteen angels crowd the background.
Artist Life Dates
1279 - c.1349
Century
14th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1325
Accession Number
1960/2.123
Medium and Support
tempera and gold on panel
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
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
2005/1.466.8
Medium and Support
gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
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
2005/1.466.1
Medium and Support
gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
Title
Buddhist Bronze
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
mid 7th-early 8th centuries
Object Creation Date
circa 650-725
Accession Number
1961/2.78
Medium and Support
gilt bronze
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
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
2005/1.466.10
Medium and Support
gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
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
2005/1.466.3
Medium and Support
gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
Title
St. John the Evangelist on Patmos
Artist
Joos van Cleve
Physical Description
St. John the Evangelist sits in the foreground with a book open on his knee and quill pen poised over its pages. Two books rest next to him and an eagle has alighted on an adjacent rock. St. John looks up and to his right to see a standing figure of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, who appear in a glowing mandorla hovering in the sky. A vast panoramic view of a bustling harbor and formidable mountains unfolds behind St. John and extends into the distance.
Artist Life Dates
active 1511 - 1540/1541
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1525
Accession Number
1958/2.77
Medium and Support
oil on panel, mounted on panel
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
Title
The Annunciation
Artist
Juan de Valdés Leal
Physical Description
An angel, draped with a flowing red mantle, descends on the left from a bank of clouds. He holds a scepter and twisting scroll in his left hand while he points with his right toward a white dove encircled by a halo of light that descends toward a woman dressed in long robes and a veil. She sits, holding a book open on the lectern before her, and draws back slightly with her right hand raised and her eyes downcast. Six cherubim sit above on the edge of the cloudbank, which opens to reveal a male figure barely visible in the blinding light that fills the cloud.
Artist Life Dates
1622-1690
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
1661
Accession Number
1962/1.99
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
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
2005/1.466.5
Medium and Support
gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
Title
The Nativity of the Virgin
Artist
Sano di Pietro
Physical Description
This painted panel depicts an intimate domestic setting consisting of a bedchamber with a fireplace and a smaller vaulted antechamber that opens out on a garden. A haloed woman wearing a white veil rests in bed, having recently given birth. She leans to her right as she reaches toward a basin held by an attendant and looks across the room to the infant who is held on the lap of another servant. A halo also encircles the head of the child and a pair of angels fly above her. Several other attendants and midwives bustle about the room, while another woman, more richly clad than the servants, gazes on the child from her seat at the foot of the bed. In the antechamber sits a haloed man in a long white beard, who leans forward to hear news of the birth from the child standing in front of him. A companion sits behind him and a servant passes through the door into the bedchamber.
Artist Life Dates
1405-1481
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
1448-1452
Accession Number
1977/2.1
Medium and Support
tempera and gold on panel
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
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
2005/1.466.7
Medium and Support
gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
Title
Busts of Saints Jerome and Gregory
Artist
Atelier of Jörg Syrlin the Younger
Physical Description
This pair of finely carved bust-length figures depicts two men in ecclesiastical garb. On the right appears an older figure who wears elaborate vestments and a papal tiara with a book in his left hand. His deeply lined and wrinkled face conveys a patient wisdom and authority as he stares directly ahead. His more youthful companion, dressed in a simpler collared robe and brimless cap, glances introspectively aside. He grasps an unfurled scroll in his left hand and a diminutive lion stares out from its perch on his left shoulder.
Century
late 15th/early 16th-century
Object Creation Date
circa1500
Accession Number
1958/1.59
Medium and Support
lindenwood with polychromy
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
Title
Bodhisattva, possibly Padmapani, seated in lalitasana and holding a lotus bud in the left hand: part of a Buddhist altar group
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date
618-907
Accession Number
1961/2.71
Medium and Support
gilt bronze
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
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 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
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
2005/1.466.2
Medium and Support
gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
Title
Dvarapala (Buddhist guardian deity)
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
7th century
Object Creation Date
mid 7th century
Accession Number
1964/2.26
Medium and Support
gilt bronze
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
Title
Platform for Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables
Artist
Artist Unknown, Thailand
Physical Description
Gilt and lacquered wooden platform for ten-piece altar set. The platform is carved along the edges in floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt are larger in size and less stylized than those found on the set it spports. Located between upper and lower carved floral registers is a band decorated with a repeating geometrical rectangular pattern, covered also with gold gilt. The red wood surface of the long, short platform is coated in lacquer.
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2005/1.466.11
Medium and Support
gilt and lacquered wood
relevance
rank 10.82743
Secondary Object Type
altarpiece
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