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Shiva surrounded by arch and two hounds; India, Central India

Title: Shiva surrounded by arch and two hounds
Artist: India, Central India
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1979/2.73
Medium and Support: bronze
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Mirror; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Mirror
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 8th century
Object Creation Date: 8th century
Accession Number: 2002/2.187
Medium and Support: bronze
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Mirror; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Mirror
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 220-589
Accession Number: 1958/2.75
Medium and Support: bronze
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Pope Alexander VII (obverse), and the Piazzo del Popolo (reverse); Gioacchino Travani

Title: Pope Alexander VII (obverse), and the Piazzo del Popolo (reverse)
Artist: Gioacchino Travani
Physical Description: The front (obverse) of this medal represents a portrait of a man in profile wearing a papal tiara and a cope. The reverse depicts a city square dominated by an obelisk with a pair of identical domed churches in the background. Inscriptions run around the edge of the medal on both sides.
Artist Life Dates: Active 1634-1674
Century: 17th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 1662
Accession Number: 1984/1.282
Medium and Support: bronze
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Shiva standing; Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop

Title: Shiva standing
Artist: Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
Physical Description: Shiva stands on a tiny base with little feet in a strict unbending stance. The body is elongated with a small waist, the hips billowing out and tapering in a stylized way to the feet. He has broad shoulders and has four arms. Reading in a clockwise direction from the right front hand, he holds, a sword, another sword, a bow and a shield. He wears a lot of jewelry, necklaces that cover his entire chest, at least three belts with pendant decorations and what appears to be a bustle like garment that billows out from his waist and has a beaded border that curves down across his legs below his knees. He wears large earrings and a crown decorated with a disk for the sun and crescent for the moon. He has large wide opened eyes and what almost looks like two sets of eyebrows, a dot where his third eye should be and a luxurious moustache.
Century: 15th-16th century
Object Creation Date: 15th century - 16th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.116
Medium and Support: bronze
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Parshvanatha shrine (fragmentary condition); Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat

Title: Parshvanatha shrine (fragmentary condition)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.103
Medium and Support: bronze
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The Triumph of Plenty; Artist Unknown, Germany or Belgium

Title: The Triumph of Plenty
Artist: Artist Unknown, Germany or Belgium
Physical Description: This bronze plaque features a pair of oxen pulling a four-wheeled wagon with six passengers. The seated driver holds a rod in his right hand and a two-tined fork in his left. An older figure holding a flaming vessel stands behind him, followed by a seated figure wearing classical drapery and a laurel wreath. The next figure, seated in the middle of the cart, is an older female, nude to the waist, who holds a cornucopia full of fruit and raises her left hand to point skyward. Two smaller standing figures appear next, one holding a bowl of fruit. The final figure is a reclining female nude holding a flower in the crook of her right arm.
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1600
Accession Number: 1960/2.5
Medium and Support: bronze
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Mirror; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Mirror
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 206 BCE - 220 CE
Accession Number: 1974/1.166
Medium and Support: bronze
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Mahish-Asura-Mardini with four arms killing buffalo demon; Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra

Title: Mahish-Asura-Mardini with four arms killing buffalo demon
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century: 17th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century - 18th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.49
Medium and Support: bronze
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Durga (folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India

Title: Durga (folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 16th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century - 18th century
Accession Number: 1980/2.252
Medium and Support: bronze
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Mirror; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Mirror
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 960-1279
Accession Number: 1974/1.204
Medium and Support: bronze
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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
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Parshvanatha (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India

Title: Parshvanatha (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
Century: 20th-century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1975/2.122
Medium and Support: bronze
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Dipa-Hanuman; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Dipa-Hanuman
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1980/2.272
Medium and Support: bronze
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Mirror; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Mirror
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 960-1279
Accession Number: 1974/1.229
Medium and Support: bronze
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Elk; Edward Kemeys

Title: Elk
Artist: Edward Kemeys
Artist Life Dates: 1843-1907
Century: 19th-20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1863-1907
Accession Number: 1955/1.138
Medium and Support: bronze
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Shiva and Nandi on a Pedestal Base; Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India

Title: Shiva and Nandi on a Pedestal Base
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
Century: 10th-12th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 12th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.117
Medium and Support: bronze
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Miniature figure; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Miniature figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1977/2.142E
Medium and Support: bronze
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Mirror; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Mirror
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 1368-1644
Accession Number: 1971/2.104
Medium and Support: bronze
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Service; Mark Kostabi

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Title: Service
Artist: Mark Kostabi
Artist Life Dates: born 1960
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1986
Accession Number: 2004/2.100
Medium and Support: bronze
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Garuda; Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India

Title: Garuda
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
Object Creation Date: 13th century-18th century
Accession Number: 1979/2.58
Medium and Support: bronze
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Village Hero; Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India

Title: Village Hero
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.78
Medium and Support: bronze
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Vishnu; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Vishnu
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1977/2.126
Medium and Support: bronze
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Goddess or female devotee holding a lotus in her right hand (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Goddess or female devotee holding a lotus in her right hand (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.85
Medium and Support: bronze
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Ganesha (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India

Title: Ganesha (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 12th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.90
Medium and Support: bronze
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One of a Pair of Horse Bridle Ornaments; Artist Unknown, China

Title: One of a Pair of Horse Bridle Ornaments
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 3rd century BCE
Object Creation Date: 1027 BCE - 256 BCE
Accession Number: 1974/1.159
Medium and Support: bronze
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Gong of the Ogboni Secret Society; African, Nigeria, Ogboni

Title: Gong of the Ogboni Secret Society
Artist: African, Nigeria, Ogboni
Physical Description: Brass bell or gong in the form of a human head. A loop on the top would have served as a handhold or place to tie the instrument. The opening of the the instrument is squared and flat in order to rest upright.
Accession Number: 2005/1.242
Medium and Support: bronze
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Esoteric Buddhist deity and consort; Nepal

Title: Esoteric Buddhist deity and consort
Artist: Nepal
Century: 17th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.124
Medium and Support: bronze
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Pedestal of a HIndu (?) diety (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India

Title: Pedestal of a HIndu (?) diety (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1978/2.130
Medium and Support: bronze
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Untitled; Harry Bertoia

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Harry Bertoia
Physical Description: bronze abstract sculpture
Artist Life Dates: 1915-1978
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1915-1958
Accession Number: 1997/1.117
Medium and Support: bronze
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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
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Nandi (Shiva's bull) and yoni; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Nandi (Shiva's bull) and yoni
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 16th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century - 18th century
Accession Number: 1979/2.36
Medium and Support: bronze
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Ling (bell); Artist Unknown, China

Title: Ling (bell)
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 15th-11th century BCE
Object Creation Date: 16th century BCE - 15th century BCE
Accession Number: 1974/1.139
Medium and Support: bronze
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Jian (sword) with broken handle; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Jian (sword) with broken handle
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 3rd century BCE
Accession Number: 1981/2.72
Medium and Support: bronze
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Buddha, standing in double abhaya mudra (Ayutthaya style); Artist Unknown, Thailand

Title: Buddha, standing in double abhaya mudra (Ayutthaya style)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Thailand
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 1993/2.45
Medium and Support: bronze
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Subrahmanya (also known as Karttikeya, Kumara, etc.); Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title: Subrahmanya (also known as Karttikeya, Kumara, etc.)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, South India
Physical Description: Subrahmanya stands on a tiered base which starts square and sloped, then is square and straight up and then round sloped with an incised decoration, then flanged out as a base for the figure to stand. He stands in an unbending pose and has four hands. Reading in a clockwise direction form the right front hand they are: in a reassuring gesture [abhyaya mudra], holding a vajra [a symbol of lightening], holding a symbol of a spear [actually what can be read as the head of the spear], and in a gesture of giving [varada mudra]. He wears a lung from his waist decorated with incised pattern and a lot of jewelry including belts with pendants, necklaces a decorated beaded sacred thread, large earring and an elaborate crown.
Century: 19th-20th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century - 20th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.114
Medium and Support: bronze
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Ganesha, seated, with four arms; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Ganesha, seated, with four arms
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Accession Number: 2001/1.361
Medium and Support: bronze
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Measuring Scoop; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Measuring Scoop
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 1st century
Object Creation Date: 1st century
Accession Number: 1997/1.299
Medium and Support: bronze
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Square wine vessel (fang hu) with incised "thunder" (leiwen) pattern and 4 scepter-shaped handled on shoulder; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Square wine vessel (fang hu) with incised "thunder" (leiwen) pattern and 4 scepter-shaped handled on shoulder
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 960-1279 or later
Accession Number: 1972/2.97
Medium and Support: bronze
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Folk Durga; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

Title: Folk Durga
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 18th century
Accession Number: 1975/2.110
Medium and Support: bronze
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Equestrian Figure: village hero on horseback smoking a hookah which is held in his left hand; India, Central or Southern India

Title: Equestrian Figure: village hero on horseback smoking a hookah which is held in his left hand
Artist: India, Central or Southern India
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.67
Medium and Support: bronze
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