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Title: Glass snuff bottle with bat
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1825-1900
Accession Number: 1980/2.145
Medium and Support: glass and chloromelanite
Secondary Keywords: ball game equipment; ball striking or snaring and throwing equipment; containers; containers by function or context; containers for personal use; containers for smoking and tobacco use; objects we use; recreational artifacts; recreational artifacts for competitive activities; sports and athletic equipment

Title: Mouri jang (chest with 3 drawers and central double doors and butterfly brass fittings)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: This is a low pear wood storage chest, with three drawers and two doors. The butterfly and bat brass fittings for the hinges and drawer pulls add 'feminine' touches.
Century: mid-19th century
Object Creation Date: mid 19th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.311
Medium and Support: pear wood with brass fittings
Secondary Keywords: animals and creatures; arthropods; ball game equipment; ball striking or snaring and throwing equipment; case furniture; chests; descriptors; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture by form or function; insects; materials; materials by origin; metalwork; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; plant material; recreational artifacts; recreational artifacts for competitive activities; sports and athletic equipment; storage and display furniture; wood and wood products

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Title: Mirror Box
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: This mirror box is decorated with lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlaid designs. Thelid of the box opens upwards, and has brass hinges and a closure in the sahpe of a flower. The lower drawer has a handle in the shape of a bat.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 2006/2.61
Medium and Support: lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay and brass? fittings
Secondary Keywords: ball game equipment; ball striking or snaring and throwing equipment; buildings and the land; coating (material); coating by composition or origin; containers; descriptors; herbaceous plants; landscapes (environments); materials; materials by function; natural landscapes; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by gender; plants; recreational artifacts; recreational artifacts for competitive activities; settlements and landscapes; sports and athletic equipment; vegetation and vegetation components; vegetation components; woody plants

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Title: verso: sketch of airplanes (?) [upside down in relation to image on recto]
Artist: Jacob Lawrence
Physical Description: Eight abstracted figures (three kneeling in front and five standing in back) wearing orange tank tops and white shorts face the viewer; two basketballs and five trophies between figures in the foreground. Figures stand in front of a background of fragmented, arched and circular areas of color in blues and golds.
Artist Life Dates: 1917 - 2000
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1953
Accession Number: 1997/1.530
Medium and Support: tempera over black colored pencil on wood board
Secondary Keywords: ball game equipment; balls for sports; court ball games; court games; descriptors; european; european styles and periods; genres; how we live; modern american styles and periods; modern and contemporary art; modern european fine arts styles and movements; modern european styles and movements; modern north american styles and movements; object genres; object genres by function; objects; objects we use; people and culture; people and occupations; physical activities; physical activities by location; physical activities by specific context; recreational artifacts; recreational artifacts for competitive activities; sports; sports and athletic equipment; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; the americas; visual works; visual works by subject type

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Title: Block for Printing "Longevity" Spirit Money, from Taiwan
Artist: Artist Unknown Taiwan
Physical Description: Wooden block painted cinnabar red with a carved floral design framing an inner square that contains six characters in the top and lower right, center, and left corners and a large character in the middle (“longevity”) with an image of two coins suspended from the wings of a stylized bat in the lower center.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: late 20th century
Accession Number: 2006/2.41.1
Medium and Support: carved wood
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; ball game equipment; ball striking or snaring and throwing equipment; biological concepts; equipment; equipment by process; exchange media; image-making equipment; objects we use; people and culture; printing and printmaking equipment; printing blocks; printing surfaces; recreational artifacts; recreational artifacts for competitive activities; scientific concepts; sports and athletic equipment; tools and equipment

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