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Title
Standing Female Figure as a Cup
Artist
African, Congo (Zaire), Wongo
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1920
Accession Number
2005/1.211
Medium and Support
wood
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Sculpture
Title
Model of a mill
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
1st century
Object Creation Date
1st century - 2nd century
Accession Number
1993/1.61
Medium and Support
earthenware, red, with green lead glaze
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Sculpture
Title
Scene from the life of the Buddha: Buddha triumphs over the fire snake at the Fire Temple of Uruvilva Kasyapa (architectural fragment)
Artist
Artist Unknown,Gandhara (ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Physical Description
A fragment of a stone slab, originally a facing on the drum of a small stupa, carved with a narrative scene. In this relief, he is converting devotees of the fire god Agni, the three ascetic Kasyapa brothers and their disciples. In this narrative, the Buddha asked to spend the night in the fire temple of Uruvilva Kasyapa. The temple’s fire god worshipers thought the fearsome fire serpent that dwelled within the temple would vanquish the Buddha. Instead, the fiery radiance of the meditating Buddha overwhelmed the serpent, who crawled into the Buddha’s alms bowl; the defeated snake appears in this sculpture below the Buddha. Meanwhile, the dazzling radiance the Buddha emits has been mistaken for flames and a fire brigade using ladders and pots of water has been formed to put out the fire, as can be seen here. Seated in the posture and gesture of meditation, the Buddha’s calm presence is in contrast to the action unfolding around him. The three Kasyapa brothers, with their beards and matted hair, are at the bottom directing it all – two are on the right and the other is seated at the far left.
Century
3rd century
Object Creation Date
200-232
Accession Number
1972/2.41
Medium and Support
grey schist
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Sculpture
Title
Standing Hanuman, Upright figure of monkey God with hands in anjali position
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century
16th-18th century
Object Creation Date
16th century - 17th century
Accession Number
1976/2.51
Medium and Support
bronze
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Sculpture
Title
Food Bowl with Two Male Figures as Handles
Artist
New Guinea, Papua
Object Creation Date
n.d.
Accession Number
1985/2.124
Medium and Support
carved wood
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Sculpture
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Title
Apsara Warrior
Artist
Ouk Chim Vichet
Physical Description
metal figural sculpture made of decommissioned AK-47s welded together
Artist Life Dates
b. 1981
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 2004
Accession Number
2007/2.79
Medium and Support
metal
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Sculpture
Title
Mantel clock with a priestess and Cupid offering a sacriffice to Venus
Artist
Joseph Buzot
Physical Description
The dial of this elaborately decorated clock stands upon a two-tiered base. The lower tier consists of a hollow base made of ebony and adorned with a frieze of gilded bronze scrollwork and palmette motifs. The upper tier, made entirely of gilded bronze, features six fluted pilasters with a decorative panel centered on the front below the dial. This panel is composed of a pair of doves touching beaks before a crossed quiver of arrows and a flaming torch framed by leaves. A woman in long flowing robes stands to the right of the dial and empties a small cup onto a dove held by a winged putto who lies on a rocky projection. Behind the dove burns a fire on a small altar inscribed "Altar of Venus" [Autel à Venus].
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1780
Accession Number
2001/2.82
Medium and Support
gilded bronze, ebony, porcelain, and glass
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Sculpture
Title
Model of a four-story watchtower
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description
model of a four story tower
each story has a movable door attached to the building through hinges
a human figurine stands in front of each door
Century
1st century
Object Creation Date
1st century
Accession Number
1993/1.71.4
Medium and Support
red earthenware with green lead glaze
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Sculpture
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
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Title
Double Totemic Sculpture
Artist
Mark Lindquist
Physical Description
rough-hewn hollowed wood sculpture in natural state with spalt, marks, holes, etc.
Century
late 20th century
Object Creation Date
1994-1995
Accession Number
2002/2.156B
Medium and Support
oak burl
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Sculpture
Title
Bust of George Washington (1732-1799), after Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)
Artist
Randolph Rogers
Physical Description
This is a white marble sculpture that depicts the upper torso of a man. There is drapery wrapped loosely around his figure. He is shown staring into the viewer's space and his facial expression is calm and reserved. This sculpture is carved in a realistic manner and rests on a columnar pedestal.
Artist Life Dates
1825 - 1892
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1868
Accession Number
1895.12
Medium and Support
marble
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Sculpture
Title
Yanda Figure
Artist
African, Congo (Zaire), Zande
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1880
Accession Number
2005/1.237
Medium and Support
wood, cloth, metal
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Sculpture
Title
Model of a water well
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
1st century
Object Creation Date
1st century - 2nd century
Accession Number
1993/1.74
Medium and Support
earthenware, red, with green lead glaze
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Sculpture
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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Sculpture
Title
Vishnu Stele, four-armed Vishnu with two of his attributes personified
Artist
Artist Unknown
Physical Description
Vishnu stand in a strict unbending pose, samabhanga and has four hands. Reading clockwise from the front right hand, he holds lotus, a club, a discus and a conch. The lotus and conch are also personified with full standing figures at the base below his tow front hands, the lotus as a female figure to his right and the conch as a male figure to his left. On the pointed arch behind the figure a flying figure holding garlands is carved in shallow relief to either side of his crown. He wears a diaphanous lower cloth, the folds of the garment are articulated with a flared section down the center. He wears a long garland down to his knees, a sacred thread and various pieces of jewelry, including bracelets, armlets, a necklace and large earrings and an elaborate crown.
Century
10th century
Object Creation Date
circa 10th century
Accession Number
2003/1.385
Medium and Support
black schist
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Sculpture
Title
Egúngún headress (erin type)
Artist
Adugbologe Workshop of Abeokuta, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria
Physical Description
A massive, baroque, and busy wood-carved headdress with stylized face (showing classic Yoruba features) of bulging eyes with defined upper lids, long, straight, triangular nose, symmetrical scarification patterns consisting of three horizontal lines on each cheek, a short beard from ear to ear just underneath the lower lip. Two large “ears” protrude on either side of head and act as “scaffolding” for numerous attachments of symbolic content: birds and lions predominate, but also visible are amulets, wooden claws and beads, crosses, and an insignia shield of some kind. The ears terminate in two oblong mirrors with lions leaping off of each. Layers of pigment are visible, giving impression it has been repainted over time.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1960
Accession Number
1985/1.183
Medium and Support
wood, mirrors, pigment, gourd, beads, metal
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Sculpture
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Title
Abstract Form
Artist
Peter Voulkos
Physical Description
Large stoneware abstract sculpture with two balanced lateral crescent-shaped forms branching off a central conical structure. Brown with loosely-painted broad brushstrokes in black and incised decoration of rows of dots in a “stitching-like” pattern
Artist Life Dates
(1924 - 2002)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1960
Accession Number
1960/1.181
Medium and Support
stoneware
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Sculpture
Title
A votive plaque depicting an image of the Buddha, housed within a small temple
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description
A small, thin, molded clay plaque with a bas-relief scene.
Century
6th-7th century
Object Creation Date
late 6th century - early 7th century
Accession Number
1964/2.21
Medium and Support
terracotta, molded
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Sculpture
Title
Model of a four-story watchtower
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description
model of a four story tower
each story has a movable door attached to the building through hinges
a human figurine stands in front of each door
Century
1st century
Object Creation Date
1st century
Accession Number
1993/1.71.3
Medium and Support
red earthenware with green lead glaze
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Sculpture
Title
Durga on her lion mount
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Bihar
Physical Description
The four-armed Durga sits on a stylized crouching lion with her right leg pendant and the left one across her body. Her front right hand extends down with palm outwards in a boon giving gesture while the back right hand holds a sword. Her left font hand holds a fruit or flower bud while her back left hand holds a shield. The whole is simply carved with rather subdued jewelry, but she does wear necklaces, bracelets, armlets and loose anklets as well as large circular earrings and a diadem across her forehead. Her hair is arranged behind the diadem. The stele is subtly pointed and its only decoration is a band along the outside, although a throne is suggested at her knees. A highly stylized lotus supports her right foot at the base.
Century
13th-14th century
Object Creation Date
13th century - 14th century
Accession Number
1981/1.315
Medium and Support
stone
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Title
Heather's Fragrance
Artist
Alain Mailland
Physical Description
organic form consisting of thin concentric tendrils of wood
Artist Life Dates
born, Ivory Coast, Africa, 1959
Century
late 20th century
Object Creation Date
2001
Accession Number
2002/2.161
Medium and Support
heather root
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Title
Stiff Box 12
Artist
Lucas Samaras
Physical Description
Made of thick steel, this sculpture has two very distinct halves. One on side, the thick sheet of steel gracefully curves around and back on itself, making loops and rounded edges. On the reverse, the steel is angular, jagged, and sharp, jutting into the spaces in the sculpture's interior and the space around the whole. At the very center of the piece, along the implied dividing line between the two sides, is a relatively small box.
Artist Life Dates
American, born Greece, 1936
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1971
Accession Number
1997/1.138
Medium and Support
Cor-Ten steel
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Title
Little Torso No. 5 (Torse)
Artist
Hans Arp
Physical Description
A small polished bronze sculpture of a biomorphic form rising gracefully from a small base. Where it contacts the base, the form stands on two leg-like structures. The form rises from there, narrows, then opens up into a wider, more oblong shape at the top.
Artist Life Dates
1886-1966
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1930; cast 1957
Accession Number
1983/1.399
Medium and Support
polished bronze
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Sculpture
Title
Model of a pond filled with swans
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
1st century
Object Creation Date
1st century - 2nd century
Accession Number
1993/1.87
Medium and Support
earthenware, red, with green lead glaze
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Title
Standing Figure
Artist
Alberto Giacometti
Physical Description
An elongated figure with minimal features stands on a small rectangular base with left foot slightly forward. The metal has a texture resembling molten wax.
Artist Life Dates
1901 - 1966
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1957
Accession Number
1958/1.137
Medium and Support
bronze
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Sculpture
Title
Village deity
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
20th century
Accession Number
1977/2.68
Medium and Support
bronze
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Title
Salacia
Artist
Michele Oka Doner
Physical Description
Large bronze sculpture resembling a headless human figure. The surface texture is very rough with deep voids and coarse patches of metal. The brown patina has areas with a greenish tinge.
Object Creation Date
2008
Accession Number
2009/1.467
Medium and Support
cast bronze
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Sculpture
Title
Flora
Artist
Richard James Wyatt
Physical Description
White marble sculpture of female figure, partially nude with a cloth draped loosely around her waist and over her left forearm. She holds a cluster of flowers in her left hand, and a single bloom in her right; a basket of flowers located on base to left and slightly behind figure.
Artist Life Dates
1795 - 1850
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1850
Accession Number
1931.17
Medium and Support
marble
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Secondary Object Classification
Sculpture
Title
Rectangular Bronze Form No. 2
Artist
Robert Adams
Physical Description
Thin, double-side, H-shaped bronze sculpture. Each side is made up of a collection of rough rectangle shapes overlapping and butting up against one another. Two rectangle-shaped openings penetrate the piece.
Artist Life Dates
1917-1984
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1953
Accession Number
1954/2.40
Medium and Support
bronze with wood base
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Sculpture
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
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Sculpture
Title
Polycandelon for six oil lamps
Artist
Artist Unknown, Coptic, Egypt
Physical Description
This bronze light fixture consists of a central circular celestial motif from which extend twelve arms in a radial pattern. Six of these arms, embellished with maltese crosses, end in omega-shaped terminals. These decorated arms alternate with six unadorned arms that terminate in rings designed to hold glass oil lamps. The entire disk is suspended from three bronze chains joined to a large hook.
Century
6th century
Object Creation Date
500-599
Accession Number
1965/2.54
Medium and Support
bronze
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Sculpture
Title
Vishnu as Varaha, the Cosmic Boar
Artist
India, Central India
Physical Description
This intricate stele has a large Varaha in the center. He is in the archer’s stance, with his right leg extended and his left leg bent resting on a lotus held up by a male and female snake figures. They have human bodies from the waist up and knotted snake bodies below. Varaha has a human body with the head of a boar, his head thrown back supporting the figure of the earth goddess who holds on to his snout. A lotus leaf acts as an umbrella over his head. Three of his four arms are intact with his right one at his hip holding a broken lotus, only the stem survives, and the two left hands holding a conch at his chest and a discus at his knee. The broken arm held the club and the top of it is still visible next to the pavilion on the left over his shoulder. Besides the two snake figures, three figures stand on the base to either side, the other one female, while the others are male. The inner two hold the conch and discus and can be considered shankhapurausha and cakrapurusha, the personifications of the two weapons. The figure in the center on the left ahs his hand raised over his head and the one on the right holds an arrow. They stand against pilaster forms, each surmounted by a pillared pavilion. To the sides of the pillars, vyalis (a composite animal) decorate the columns, a conventional throne motif and above them on the outside some devotee figures, the one on the right is broken. Against the pillar a broken animal figure is to the right and a seated devotee is seen on the left. The two pavilion forms house gods. The one to the left houses a small four-armed image of Brahma (three of his heads show, the central one with a beard) holding his usual attributes, a ladle for ritual and probably a pot, etc.. That on the right houses a four-armed figure of Shiva holding a trident and other attributes. The top of the stele is broken, but there is a devotee to the left and a row of seven figures all with hand up in a reassuring gesture and the other holding a pot. Could there have been two more and represent the nine planets? They do not appear very different one from the other.
Century
10th century
Object Creation Date
circa 10th century
Accession Number
2002/1.167
Medium and Support
sandstone
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Title
Figure
Artist
Henry Moore
Physical Description
A small carved wood sculpture depicting a seated figure with legs crossed.
Artist Life Dates
(Castleford, England, 7/30/1898 - 8/31/1986, Hertforshire, England)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1932
Accession Number
1953/1.27
Medium and Support
lignum vitae with wood base
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Title
Growing Forms
Artist
David Smith
Physical Description
A roughly teardrop-shaped sculpture of shiny cast aluminum. Within the basic organic shape are several curls and a shape that appears to be a woman or perhaps a fetus. The sculpture sits atop a tall wooden base composed of a stack of fat disc shapes.
Artist Life Dates
1906-1965
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1939
Accession Number
1980/1.213A
Medium and Support
cast aluminum on wood base
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Title
To Benjamin B.
Artist
Howard Ben Tré
Physical Description
Three large, rectangular blocks of translucent green glass hang in vertical succession on a newtwork of copper rods. The glass has bubbles embedded within it and shows evidence of the sandcasting process.
Artist Life Dates
born 1949
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1980
Accession Number
1997/1.116
Medium and Support
cast glass and copper
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Sculpture
Title
Model of cart and ox
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
4th-6th century
Object Creation Date
late 4th century - early 6th century
Accession Number
1993/1.100.1-4
Medium and Support
earthenware with painted designs
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Sculpture
Title
Equestrian figure
Artist
Artist Unknown, India
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1980/2.259
Medium and Support
bronze
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Sculpture
Title
Lotus Relief, Fragment from the crosspiece of a stupa railing in Mathura
Artist
India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura
Physical Description
The red mottled sandstone of this lotus relief is unique to the Sikri quarry, just outside of Mathura.
Century
3rd century
Object Creation Date
3rd century
Accession Number
1963/1.90
Medium and Support
red sandstone
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Title
Head
Artist
Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi
Physical Description
Abstract sculpture vaguely representational of a bust-length head, the face of which appears to be constructed from strips of metal and parts from machines.
Artist Life Dates
1924 - 2005
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1957
Accession Number
1979/2.10
Medium and Support
bronze
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Sculpture
Title
Ceremonial Cup
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Suku
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1950
Accession Number
1985/2.125
Medium and Support
carved wood
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Sculpture
Title
Model of a pig pen
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
2nd century BCE-2nd century CE
Object Creation Date
206 BCE - 220 CE
Accession Number
1990/1.214
Medium and Support
earthenware, red, with green lead glaze
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Sculpture
Title
Bust of Diana
Artist
Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière
Physical Description
Bust-length figure of a woman with head turned proper left, down-turned eyelids and crescent moon atop head; executed in bronze with a rich, dark patina on a brownish stone base.
Artist Life Dates
1831-1900
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1882
Accession Number
1986/2.83
Medium and Support
bronze with marble base
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Sculpture
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
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Sculpture
Title
Dakini
Artist
Artist Unknown, Nepal
Physical Description
A small stone sculpture in bas-relief, depicting a tantric goddess. The back of the image is carved in a stylized petal shape, while the figure is crudely carved in relief on the front.
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1983/1.111
Medium and Support
stone
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Sculpture
Title
The Mourning Virgin and holy women (fragment of a Crucifixion from a portable altarpiece)
Artist
Embriachi Workshop, Venice, Italy
Physical Description
This carved bone sculpture depicts the Virgin Mary raising her right hand in a gesture of grief while her head is bent in mourning. A similar female figure, holding her hands clasped before her, appears in profile behind the Virgin, and another female figure stands to the left. Behind the mourning women the pointed helmets worn by two soldiers may be discerned.
Century
14th-15th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1400
Accession Number
1976/2.102
Medium and Support
bone
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Title
Spirit Dancer
Artist
Mark Bressler
Physical Description
hollowed burl with natural bark edges
Artist Life Dates
born 1951
Century
late 20th century
Object Creation Date
2001
Accession Number
2003/2.79
Medium and Support
madrone burl
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Sculpture
Title
Model of a granary with bear-shaped feet
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
1st century BCE
Object Creation Date
1st century BCE
Accession Number
1996/2.17
Medium and Support
earthenware, unglazed
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Sculpture
Title
Elephant rider
Artist
Artist Unknown, India
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1980/2.287
Medium and Support
bronze
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Title
Double Totemic Sculpture
Artist
Mark Lindquist
Physical Description
rough-hewn hollowed wood sculpture in natural state with spalt, marks, holes, etc.
Artist Life Dates
born 1949
Century
late 20th century
Object Creation Date
1994-1995
Accession Number
2002/2.156A
Medium and Support
oak burl
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Sculpture
Title
Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii
Artist
Randolph Rogers
Physical Description
A white marble statue of a young female figure, leaning forward holding a staff with eyes closed, her left hand held up to her right ear. A flowing, wind-swept garment drapes the figure. On the base to the left of the figure is a broken capital of a Corinthian column lying on its side.
Artist Life Dates
1825-1892
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1861
Accession Number
1862.1
Medium and Support
Carrara marble
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Sculpture
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