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- Title
- The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Gyôsho Edition): #15 Yoshiwara
- Artist
- Andô Hiroshige
- Physical Description
- On the right hand side of the print, two figures are standing in front of a market shop, talking to the store owner. In the distance is another figure walking along the path, and beyond him is what appears to be another market stall with other figures. Writing in the upper left corner. Title in the upper right corner in a red box.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1797-1858
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1841-1842
- Accession Number
- 1998/2.30
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- accessories worn on the head
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- chubu (region)
- commercial buildings
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories worn
- geographic and political locations
- headgear
- japan (nation)
- landscapes (environments)
- mercantile buildings
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- physical features
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- woody plants
- Title
- The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Jimbutsu Edition): #15 Yoshiwara
- Artist
- Andô Hiroshige
- Physical Description
- Fishermen in boats in shallow water with mountain n the distance. Writing in the upper left corner. Flock of birds in the distance in front of the mountain.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1797-1858
- Object Creation Date
- 1852
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.317
- Medium and Support
- woodblock print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- chubu (region)
- descriptors
- geographic and political locations
- inorganic material
- japan (nation)
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in agriculture or natural resource occupations
- people in science-related occupations
- physical features
- scientists and people in science-related occupations
- settlements and landscapes
- transportation vehicles
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- Title
- October
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- Overall blue, red, white and black. The background is blue with various people performing different acts, the text is large and red.
- Object Creation Date
- 1925
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.225
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on primed canvas
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- declaratory and advertising artifacts
- geographic and political locations
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- objects we use
- performing arts buildings
- performing arts structures
- photographs
- photographs by subject type
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Mr. Lloyds Voyage
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- Overall, off-white, black, yellow and red. A large man's head in the background. On the right hand side there is a woman in a hat crouching down and a man behind her holding onto her shoulder.
- Object Creation Date
- 1928
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.234
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on buff wove paper, laid down on canvas
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- declaratory and advertising artifacts
- geographic and political locations
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- objects we use
- performing arts buildings
- performing arts structures
- photographs
- photographs by subject type
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Landscape
- Artist
- Aoki Shukuya
- Artist Life Dates
- 1737-1802
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1760-1802
- Accession Number
- 1967/2.3
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- asia
- asian
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- figures
- forms
- geography
- locality
- making art
- objects we use
- paintings
- paintings by form
- people and occupations
- plants
- riverine bodies
- scroll paintings
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- the natural world
- transportation structures
- transportation structures by form
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- visual works by subject type
- woody plants
- Title
- Leaf from a Bible with decorated initial and vegetal ornament
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Armenia
- Physical Description
- This page from a manuscript features two columns of text written in Armenian. An animal-shaped initial, composed of two stylized birds pecking one another, appears in the lower right column. The lower left margin is decorated with a sidebar that elegantly combines geometric and plant motifs. The decorative elements are painted in pink and blue with touches of reddish orange.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 15th century
- Accession Number
- 1958/1.162
- Medium and Support
- ink on glazed paper
- Secondary Keywords
- layout features
- asia (continent)
- associated concepts
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- document genres
- document genres by conditions of production
- document genres by function
- geographic and political locations
- images and ornament
- information form components
- information forms
- layout features
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- religious texts
- Title
- Battle for Kamenka Village, Near Moscow, 1941
- Artist
- Dmitri Baltermants
- Physical Description
- An open doorway depicting soldiers in action during the Battle for Kamenka Village near Moscow.
- Artist Life Dates
- Russian, 1912-1990
- Object Creation Date
- 2003
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.67
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- scale
- armed conflicts
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- events
- geographic and political locations
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in military occupations
- photographic prints
- photographic prints by process
- photographs
- photographs by form
- positives
- settlements
- settlements and landscapes
- settlements by form
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Soviet Soldier Firing Captured German Panzerfaust at Night
- Artist
- Dmitri Baltermants
- Physical Description
- A Soviet soldier fires a German Panzerfaust firearm at night with a companion.
- Artist Life Dates
- Russian, 1912-1990
- Object Creation Date
- late 1942; printed 2003
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.69
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- descriptors
- geographic and political locations
- image-making processes and techniques
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in military occupations
- photographic techniques
- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- picture-taking techniques
- picture-taking techniques by location or context
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- projectile weapons
- projectile weapons with explosive propellant
- russia (nation)
- weapons
- weapons and ammunition
- Title
- "What's new in the world" - Notat and Koyap listening to transistor radio, Chukotka
- Artist
- Dmitri Baltermants
- Physical Description
- Two women from the Chukot region of northeast Russia listen to a radio. They are dressed in patterned scarves around their heads and thick fur-trimmed coats to keep warm in te Siberian cold.
- Artist Life Dates
- Russian, 1912-1990
- Object Creation Date
- 2003
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.87
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- components and systems
- costume
- costume by form
- geographic and political locations
- infrastructural systems
- main garments
- object groupings and systems
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- rossiya (republic)
- russia (nation)
- systems
- systems by function
- telecommunication systems
- Title
- Hou Chi Minh with cigarette and large leaf, meeting with Voroshilov, Vietnam, 1957
- Artist
- Dmitri Baltermants
- Physical Description
- Hou Chi Minh and Kliment Voroshilov meeting in Vietnam. The Vietnamese prime minister and president gets a light from his assistant while holding a large leaf, while the Soviet politician holds a pad of paper and tries to discuss some sort of political plans.
- Artist Life Dates
- Russian, 1912-1990
- Object Creation Date
- 2003
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.88
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- animal material
- asia (continent)
- biological material
- descriptors
- europe (continent)
- geographic and political locations
- image-making processes and techniques
- materials
- materials by origin
- photographic processes
- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- plant material
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- tobacco
- Title
- View of The Plaza Outside the Palace of Congress, Moscow
- Artist
- Dmitri Baltermants
- Physical Description
- Looking down into the Plaza outside the Moscow Palace of Congress. The focal point of the image is a tall flagpole that carries the Russian flag at the top. The flagpole sits in the middle of an arrow-shaped grassy area lines with trees and more, shorter flagpoles and flags. Lining the plaza in the distance are more trees and buildings. In the far, foggy background tall spires of a church and a skyline of the city are only just visible.
- Artist Life Dates
- Russian, 1912-1990
- Object Creation Date
- 2003
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.89
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- cultural landscapes
- cultural landscapes by location or context
- geographic and political locations
- identifying artifacts
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- landscapes (environments)
- objects we use
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by form
- religious buildings
- religious structures
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- site elements
- squares (open spaces)
- Title
- Mishka the Space Dog is being dressed, while Tsyganka the other Space Dog is already dressed, 1960
- Artist
- Dmitri Baltermants
- Physical Description
- Mishka and Tsyganka, the Russian space dogs. Mishka, the dog on the left, is not yet fully dressed and still lacks the headpiece. Tsyganka on the right is fully dressed in her spacesuit and headpiece.
- Artist Life Dates
- Russian, 1912-1990
- Object Creation Date
- 2003
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.90
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- asia (continent)
- descriptors
- geographic and political locations
- image-making processes and techniques
- mammals
- photographic processes
- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- Title
- On Holiday: Young Soldier Feeds the Pigeons, Red Square, Moscow
- Artist
- Dmitri Baltermants
- Physical Description
- A crowd of people in the Red Square in Moscow. Amidst the crowd a soldier bends down and is feeding the large mass of pigeons that take up the foreground of the photo.
- Artist Life Dates
- Russian, 1912-1990
- Object Creation Date
- 2003
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.91
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- geographic and political locations
- groups of people
- groups of people by activity
- image-making processes and techniques
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by form
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in military occupations
- photographic processes
- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- Title
- Paraders with Flowering Tree Branches, Moscow
- Artist
- Dmitri Baltermants
- Physical Description
- A parade in Moscow. Presumably this parade is in the springtime, participants hold flowering tree branches. In the center a father and his young daughter, who is sitting on his shoulders, smile as they walk down the street.
- Artist Life Dates
- Russian, 1912-1990
- Object Creation Date
- 2003
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.92
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- associated concepts
- biological components
- buildings and the land
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- freewheeled vehicles
- freewheeled vehicles by form or function
- geographic and political locations
- herbaceous plants
- image-making processes and techniques
- land vehicles
- land vehicles by form
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people and culture
- photographic processes
- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- physical sciences concepts
- plant components
- plants
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- scientific concepts
- seasons
- settlements and landscapes
- transportation vehicles
- trees (components)
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- woody plants
- Title
- The new Moscow seen from St. Basil Cathedral
- Artist
- Dmitri Baltermants
- Physical Description
- New Moscow as seen from the St. Basil Cathedral. In the foreground is the central and tallest spire of the church, surrounded by the tops of the next highest domes. Just past this is a bridge over a river, across from which is the collection of apartment buildings and storefronts of the new city.
- Artist Life Dates
- Russian, 1912-1990
- Object Creation Date
- 2003
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.93
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- scale
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- churches
- churches by location or context
- geographic and political locations
- religious buildings
- religious structures
- settlements
- settlements and landscapes
- settlements by form
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- transportation structures
- transportation structures by form
- Title
- Japanese Head
- Artist
- Leonard Baskin
- Artist Life Dates
- 1922-2000
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1950
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.114
- Medium and Support
- woodcut on brown Japan paper
- Secondary Keywords
- image form
- asia
- biological components
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- locality
- man
- modern and contemporary art
- objects we use
- people and occupations
- the human body
- upper body
- views
- views by vantage point or orientation
- visual works
- visual works by form
- Title
- The Communard's Pipe (Pipe of the Communard)
- Artist
- Anatoly Pavlovich Belsky
- Physical Description
- Overall white, red, black and yellow. Woman with blond hair, smoking a pipe. There are words and images coming out of the pipe like smoke.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1896 - 1971
- Object Creation Date
- 1929
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.221
- Medium and Support
- lithograph with off-set photography on buff wove paper, laid down on canvas
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- declaratory and advertising artifacts
- geographic and political locations
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- objects we use
- performing arts buildings
- performing arts structures
- photographs
- photographs by subject type
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Eliso (Caucasian Love)
- Artist
- Anatoly Pavlovich Belsky
- Physical Description
- Overall, black, red, yellow and white. There is an image of a native american woman with arms raised and long braids of hair down the front. The background is a diagonal pattern of red and black.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1896 - 1971
- Object Creation Date
- 1928
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.226
- Medium and Support
- lithograph with off-set photography on buff wove paper, laid down on canvas
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- declaratory and advertising artifacts
- geographic and political locations
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- objects we use
- performing arts buildings
- performing arts structures
- photographs
- photographs by subject type
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Page, from "Photograph Album of the Holy Land: The Field of Blood or Valley of Hinnom"
- Artist
- Felix Bonfils
- Artist Life Dates
- 1831-1885
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1860-1885
- Accession Number
- 1994/2.30.1
- Medium and Support
- nine albumen prints on paper bound album
- Secondary Keywords
- asia
- descriptors
- geography
- inorganic material
- israel
- locality
- materials
- materials by composition
- middle east
- objects
- plants
- roads
- the natural world
- Title
- Page, from "Photograph Album of the Holy Land: The Channel at Jaffa"
- Artist
- Felix Bonfils
- Artist Life Dates
- 1831-1885
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1860-1885
- Accession Number
- 1994/2.31.1
- Medium and Support
- eight albumen prints on paper bound album
- Secondary Keywords
- asia
- cityscapes
- geography
- israel
- locality
- middle east
- objects
- objects we use
- people and occupations
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- Title
- Page, from "Photograph Album of the Holy Land: Cave of the Nativity"
- Artist
- Felix Bonfils
- Artist Life Dates
- 1831-1885
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1860-1885
- Accession Number
- 1994/2.32.1
- Medium and Support
- nine albumen prints on mounted in paper bound album
- Secondary Keywords
- asia
- geography
- israel
- locality
- middle east
- objects
- Title
- Fort, Agra
- Artist
- Samuel Bourne
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1912
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1860
- Accession Number
- 1989/1.48
- Medium and Support
- albumen print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- asia
- cityscapes
- fortresses
- india
- locality
- Title
- Mithall Girls, Sugo Village, Nepal
- Artist
- Kevin Burbinski
- Physical Description
- Three children standing next to a column. They are all barefoot and wearing similar beaded necklaces. Two are in shorts, one is in a long skirt.
- Object Creation Date
- 1985; printed 1994
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.108
- Medium and Support
- toned gelatin silver print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- geographic and political locations
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by family relationship
- Title
- Dak Bungalow - Doonga Gully
- Artist
- John Burke
- Artist Life Dates
- (active 1843 - 1900)
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1860
- Accession Number
- 1991/1.106
- Medium and Support
- albumen print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- asia
- descriptors
- houses
- inorganic material
- locality
- materials
- materials by composition
- plants
- the natural world
- Title
- The Bible: The People of Israel
- Artist
- Marc Chagall
- Artist Life Dates
- Russia, 1889-1985
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1929-1939
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.95
- Medium and Support
- etching on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- allegory and literature
- animals
- asia
- figures
- locality
- mammals
- modern and contemporary art
- people and occupations
- the natural world
- Title
- Sight in Hangzhou, West Lake
- Artist
- Wang Chao
- Physical Description
- Ink on paper print
- Artist Life Dates
- (1974 - )
- Object Creation Date
- 2009
- Accession Number
- 2010/2.55
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- asia (continent)
- associated concepts
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- geographic and political locations
- image-making processes and techniques
- lacustrine bodies
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- objects we use
- people and culture
- photographic prints
- photographic prints by color
- photographs
- photographs by form
- physical sciences concepts
- plants
- positives
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- woody plants
- Title
- The Man with the Movie Camera
- Artist
- N. Chelovsky
- Physical Description
- Overlall yellow, orange and black. There are various women, one large eyeball in the center, trains, buses and buildings in the background. There are large rays of orange and yellow.
- Object Creation Date
- 1926
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.232
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on buff wove paper, laid down on canvas
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- declaratory and advertising artifacts
- geographic and political locations
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- objects we use
- performing arts buildings
- performing arts structures
- photographs
- photographs by subject type
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Miniature jar with cover, decorated with figures of boy acrobats
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1825-1912
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.160
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with blue underglaze painting
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- descriptors
- geographic and political locations
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in the arts
- people in the arts and related occupations
- people in the humanities
- people in the performing arts
- performing artists
- Title
- Caparisoned horse
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Ceramic figure of a horse standing on a thin ceramic base, which a high-arched neck and a vertical head; large saddle with tassels; traces of orange-ochre, pink red and white pigments
- Century
- 6th century
- Object Creation Date
- 534-550
- Accession Number
- 1950/2.12
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with slip and painted decoration
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- art genres
- artistic concepts
- asia (continent)
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- geographic and political locations
- mammals
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- people and culture
- sculpture
- sculpture by function
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Mongolian snuff bottle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1st half of 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.86
- Medium and Support
- ivory, silver, copper, turquoise
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- garden structures
- geographic and political locations
- objects we use
- single built works
- single built works by location or context
- single built works by specific type
- Title
- Blue-and-white bowl with designs of fish and plants, Kangxi era mark
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1982/1.214
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with blue underglaze painting
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- asia (continent)
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- design elements
- geographic and political locations
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- patterns (design elements)
- patterns by specific type
- vessels
- Title
- Mongolian snuff bottle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1880-1925
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.46
- Medium and Support
- turquoise and metal
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- geographic and political locations
- objects we use
- Title
- Mongolian ivory snuff bottle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1880-1930
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.83
- Medium and Support
- ivory with silver filagree, inset with coral and malachite stones
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- geographic and political locations
- objects we use
- Title
- Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, with left hand in abhaya mudra
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Small gilt bronze seated Buddha in style of China’s cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty. It has a full figure, artfully draped robes, and a plump, rounded face with arched eyebrows. Hand is raised in abhaya mudra.
- Century
- 8th century
- Object Creation Date
- 700-799
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.91
- Medium and Support
- gilt bronze
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- associated concepts
- attributes and properties
- attributes and properties by specific type
- descriptors
- figures (representations)
- form attributes
- geographic and political locations
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- religious visual works
- size (extent)
- size by specific type
- visual works
- visual works by function
- visual works by subject type
- Title
- Vase (one of a pair)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Cloisonne (metalwork with enamel decor) jar. This jar uses brightly colored red, blue, green, yellow, and pinkish-purple enamelsto decorate its registers with intricate floral and vegetal patterns. Mounted on a sturdy circular base, the body of the vase flares outward to its widest point, then curves inward more steeply toward the neck, from which a bowl-like mouth curves upwards.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.470.1
- Medium and Support
- Cloisonné (metalwork with enamel décor)
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- asian
- chinese
- chinese ceramics styles
- chinese styles
- chinese styles and periods
- containers
- containers by form
- east asian
- geographic and political locations
- objects we use
- people and culture
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- vessels
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Vase (one of a pair)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Cloisonne (metalwork with enamel decor) jar. This jar uses brightly colored red, blue, green, yellow, and pinkish-purple enamelsto decorate its registers with intricate floral and vegetal patterns. Mounted on a sturdy circular base, the body of the vase flares outward to its widest point, then curves inward more steeply toward the neck, from which a bowl-like mouth curves upwards.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.470.2
- Medium and Support
- Cloisonné (metalwork with enamel décor)
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- asian
- chinese
- chinese ceramics styles
- chinese styles
- chinese styles and periods
- containers
- containers by form
- east asian
- geographic and political locations
- objects we use
- people and culture
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- vessels
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Proto-Yue Ware Chicken-Headed Ewer
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Green-glazed ewer with spout in the shape of a chicken's head and handle in the form of a dragon's head and neck
- Century
- 4th-5th c
- Object Creation Date
- 317-420
- Accession Number
- 2005/2.92
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with celadon glaze
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- asia (continent)
- asian
- birds
- chinese
- chinese dynastic styles and periods
- chinese styles and periods
- containers
- containers by form
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- east asian
- geographic and political locations
- jin (six dynasties)
- legendary creatures
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- people and culture
- pottery (object genre)
- six dynasties
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- Title
- Large Porcelain "Guan" Jar , Baluster Form
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- The short vertical neck is decorated with a key motif repeat. The shoulders are decorated with a tapered lappet device repeat. The open large scale decoration features two mythical kylin in a suggested landscape of mountains. The opposing side depicts a moonlit valley with assorted foliage and stylized clouds. The base is unglazed with turning marks and discolored with good evidence of age.
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1573-1619
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.109
- Medium and Support
- porcelain
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- asian
- chinese
- chinese ceramics styles
- chinese styles
- chinese styles and periods
- containers
- containers by form
- east asian
- geographic and political locations
- objects we use
- people and culture
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- vessels
- Title
- Head of a Man Wearing a Turban
- Artist
- George Chinnery
- Physical Description
- This sketch depicts a man in profile, facing toward his right. He wears a turban and an elaborate collar.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1774 - 1852)
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1802-1825
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.525
- Medium and Support
- pen, ink and pencil on wove paper
- Secondary Keywords
- image form
- accessories worn on the head
- asia (continent)
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories worn
- descriptors
- drawing and drawing techniques
- geographic and political locations
- headgear
- image-making processes and techniques
- objects we use
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- views
- views by vantage point or orientation
- visual works
- visual works by form
- Title
- Stream, India
- Artist
- J. Clarke
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1860
- Accession Number
- 1989/1.50
- Medium and Support
- albumen print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- asia
- figures
- geography
- locality
- motion
- people and occupations
- plants
- the natural world
- waterscapes
- Title
- Kalaat-el-Markab (Maragat), from "Volume 2 of Voyage en Orient, 1859-1860, VIII"
- Artist
- Louis De Clercq
- Artist Life Dates
- 1836-1901
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1859
- Accession Number
- 1989/2.3
- Medium and Support
- albumen print from a waxed paper negative
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- asia (continent)
- castles
- geographic and political locations
- the natural world
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- Bernard Descamps
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1947
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.133
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- asia
- descriptors
- genres
- inorganic material
- locality
- materials
- materials by composition
- objects we use
- plants
- reflections
- rock
- rock by form
- the natural world
- trees
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- waterscapes
- Title
- The Man in the Forest
- Artist
- M. Dlugach
- Physical Description
- Large image of a woman's face in green and black. A smaller man's head in red and another man in purple wearing a striped shirt, hands in pockets.
- Object Creation Date
- 1928
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.216
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on buff wove paper, laid down on canvas
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- declaratory and advertising artifacts
- geographic and political locations
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- objects we use
- performing arts buildings
- performing arts structures
- photographs
- photographs by subject type
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Audience Hall, Agra
- Artist
- Anonymous English
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1850-1899
- Accession Number
- 1995/1.62
- Medium and Support
- albumen print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- asia
- india
- locality
- Title
- The Chuzenji Lake at Nikko
- Artist
- Anonymous English
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1850-1899
- Accession Number
- 1995/1.63
- Medium and Support
- hand-colored albumen print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- asia
- geography
- locality
- Title
- Scratchers, Kyoto, Japan, from "Recent Developments"
- Artist
- Elliott Erwitt
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1928
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1977
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.175.7
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- asia
- locality
- mammals
- modern and contemporary art
- people and occupations
- standing
- the natural world
- Title
- Musjid, Boorhaupore, from "Frith Series"
- Artist
- Francis Frith
- Artist Life Dates
- 1822 - 1898
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1822-1899
- Accession Number
- 1990/2.17
- Medium and Support
- albumen print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- asia
- building divisions
- circulation spaces
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- locality
- passages
- rooms and spaces
- rooms and spaces by function
- Title
- India Series
- Artist
- Francis Frith
- Artist Life Dates
- 1822 - 1898
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1822-1899
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.131
- Medium and Support
- albumen print on paper
- Secondary Keywords
- asia
- figures
- locality
- objects
- people and occupations
- Title
- Autumn Retreat amidst Mountains and Valleys
- Artist
- Fujimoto Tetsuseki (Tesseki)
- Artist Life Dates
- 1817-1863
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1862
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.20
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink on satin
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- asia
- asian
- descriptors
- forms
- genres
- geography
- inorganic material
- locality
- making art
- materials
- materials by composition
- plants
- the natural world
- waterscapes
- Title
- Study for 'Image in Xhorkom'
- Artist
- Arshile Gorky
- Physical Description
- Black and white drawing of organic forms vaguely resembling human figures flowing into one another in a room-like space. On the right hand side of the grouping stands the most recognizably humanoid figure.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1904 - 1948
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1936
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.41
- Medium and Support
- graphite and tempera on off-white laid paper
- Secondary Keywords
- visual arts
- abstraction
- artistic concepts
- asia
- asia (continent)
- associated concepts
- biological concepts
- biomorphic
- concepts in the arts
- drawings
- drawings by function
- european
- european styles and periods
- forms of expression
- geographic and political locations
- groups of people
- kinship groups
- life
- life stages
- locality
- modern and contemporary art
- modern european fine arts styles and movements
- modern european styles and movements
- movement
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- psychological concepts
- scientific concepts
- social groups
- social science concepts
- study
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- visual works by subject type