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Title
Shino ware flask-shaped bottle with bamboo design
Artist
Takuo Katô
Physical Description
Flask-shaped bottle with short, narrow neck. Bamboo leaves design in brown color is applied on one shoulder toward the bottom. The porous surface of white glaze shows the orange color of the clay. The spout is narrow and has an elevated rim. The foot is short and glazed.
Artist Life Dates
1917-2005
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1958
Accession Number
1963/2.69
Medium and Support
stoneware with white feldspathic glaze and underglaze painting in iron
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Title
Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire: One of Six Designs for André Rouveyer's "Apollinaire" (weak impression not cut for the book)
Artist
Guillaume Appolonaire
Physical Description
A line drawing of a man looking to the left. His lips are pursed, wearing a collared shirt.
Artist Life Dates
1880-1918
Century
Mid-20th century
Accession Number
2013/2.570
Medium and Support
lithograph on cream colored wove paper
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Title
Dark green silk fukuro obi with embroidered gold medallions of four-petaled flowers in hexagonal shapes
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Dark green plain weave silk with embroidered hexagonal design in couched greenish-gold and yellow-gold wrapped threads
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1960s-1970s
Accession Number
2005/1.342
Medium and Support
green colored silk with gold embroidered design
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Title
Formal gray kimono with gilt, embroidered and appliquéd saga brocade cloud designs
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Gray silk damask with surihaku (gilt), embroidered and appliquéd brocade designs, bordered in couched gold-wrapped threads. Lining is plain weave silk, white above and gray below. Has double oak-leaf (kashiwa) crest embroidered in gold thread.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1960s-1980s
Accession Number
2005/1.378
Medium and Support
gray twill silk with brocade and embroidery designs
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Title
Bizen ware water jar with lid (mizusashi)
Artist
Kaneshige Tôyô
Physical Description
This is an unglazed stoneware bizen jar fired in a wood-burning kiln.
It has a hard, smooth surface with decorative incisions near the top of the jar. The lower portion has effect of color gradation of reds and browns. The lid seems to dip into the jar, and has a know handle. The entire piece is not perfectly formed, but has an organic aesthetic.
Artist Life Dates
1896-1967
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1950-1963
Accession Number
1963/2.72
Medium and Support
stoneware, unglazed
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Title
Ogun Ax (àáké or edùn Ogun)
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria
Physical Description
Carved ax handle is comprised of a kneeling male figure with rounded knob on top of his head, into which narrow end of triangular iron ax blade is embedded.
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1925-1975
Accession Number
2006/2.73
Medium and Support
wood, iron
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Title
Ivory maru obi with woven pattern of gold paulownia (kiri) flowers
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Maru obi with ivory colored sateen weave silk (shusu) with large woven paulownia designs in gold-leafed paper (kinran)
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1975
Accession Number
2005/1.328
Medium and Support
ivory colored sateen weave silk with large woven designs in gold-leafed paper
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Title
Black kimono with overall shibori design of alternating diagonal columns of rectangular blocks of patterns against black ground
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
White plain-weave with overall black tie-dye design (black acid dye) in hitta kanoko. The pattern consists of rectangular blocks of densely-packed tie-dye knots in rows of 5 x 12. Lining is plain weave white silk with bokashi blue borders.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1950s-1970s
Accession Number
2005/1.361
Medium and Support
white silk with black tie-dye design
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Title
Kimono with overall woven pattern of assorted flowers
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1920s - 1940s
Accession Number
2005/1.392
Medium and Support
silk crepe twill with interwoven silver and dark purple threads
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Title
Crested kimono with elaborate floral wax resist designs (hageito, nandina, biwa, camelia, daffodils, omoto, plums, thistles) against crackled pink-on-taupe ground, with embroidery in metallic threads
Artist
Minagawa Gekka
Physical Description
This is a pink silk crepe kimono with wax-resist patterns, hand-painted design and metallic threads embroidery. The kimono is in full length and has elongated sleeves. The fabric is dyed with pink, leaving the family crest under the collar and the floral design part white. The red scale pattern is added using wax-resist technique. Then the design of multiple kinds of plants is hand-painted with white, red, yellow, and pale and blue green colors. There are mix of fall and winter flowers and trees: nandin on the left sleeve, plum, chrysanthemums, thistles, amaranths, camellias and narcissus on the front and back, makino (Chloranthus glaber, with red berries) and more camellias on the right sleeve. Embroidery is added in various metallic threads around the contours of flowers and leaves.
Artist Life Dates
1892-1987
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1950
Accession Number
2005/1.358
Medium and Support
crepe silk with colorful wax resist design and metallic thread embroidery
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Title
Maru obi with woven designs of hexagonal medallions with phoenixes among floral scrolls
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Black pain-weave satin interwoven with silk threads in light purple, rust, coral, maize, chartreuse, red, white, and ultramarine, and metallic threads in three shades of gold. The hexagonal shapes are definied by a weft of gold-coated paper (kinran) in pale greenish gold; the gold threads used in the medallions are wrapped. Inside each medallion is a phoenix design among a floral scroll.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
mid 20th century
Accession Number
2005/1.345
Medium and Support
black silk interwoven with silk floss and gold-covered paper threads
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Title
Formal saga nishiki lavender hitoe kimono with brocade patches
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Lavender silk damask with woven chysanthemum design; painted with gold streaks (cloud patterns) and appliquéd patches of Saga brocade; borders with couched gold-wrapped threads.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1950s-1960s
Accession Number
2005/1.380
Medium and Support
lavender silk painted with gold streaks and appliquéd Saga brocade patches
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Title
Black Nagoya-style obi with embroidered pine needle designs in gold- and copper-colored metallic threads
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Black silk damask with some interwoved black lacquered threads; pine-needle design embroidery in gold- and copper-colored metallic threads
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1960s
Accession Number
2005/1.330
Medium and Support
black silk damask with mettalic thread embroidery
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Title
Black saga brocade zôri (shoes)
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Black silk damask with interwoven black lacquered threads that create a shiny effect in the light. Marked "Shizuko" on the bottom.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1960s-1980s
Accession Number
2005/1.370A&B
Medium and Support
black saga nishiki brocade uppers with rubber soles
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Title
Silk underkimono with bokashi dye in large squares of aqua and white
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Silk crepe damask with alternating weaves in checkerboard design
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1960s-1980s
Accession Number
2005/1.394
Medium and Support
Silk crepe with twill geometric design
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Title
Hagi ware flower vase
Artist
Miwa Jusetsu
Physical Description
It is a vertically long, rectangular shaped vase. The body is slightly tilted; its four corners are shaved from the top to the bottom. The clay color is orange-yellow; the body is glazed with porous, milky white ash glaze. The bottom edge of the body and the bottom are unglazed. It has no foot.
Artist Life Dates
born 1910
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1960
Accession Number
1963/2.65
Medium and Support
stoneware with feldspar and ash glaze
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Title
Pons, original lithograph included in the May 1961 edition of "XXe siècle" no.16
Artist
César
Physical Description
Varying rows of lines in pinks, blues, reds and browns with a white background.
Artist Life Dates
1921-1998
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
mid 20th century
Accession Number
2013/2.573
Medium and Support
color lithograph on heavy woven paper
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Title
Dark indigo shibori haori
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
White silk hand tie-dyed with dark indigo, in two techniques: makiage shibori and kanako shibori. Cream or pale peach-colored plain weave silk lining. Cord silver and white braided silk (kumihimo)
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1960s-1980s
Accession Number
2005/1.347
Medium and Support
white silk tie dyed dark indigo
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Title
Khaki-colored koma-rinzu kimono with overall pattern of small silver flowers
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Silk crepe (repp weave) interwoven with synthetic silver threads. Lining is plain weave silk: white above and gray below.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1920s - 1940s
Accession Number
2005/1.383
Medium and Support
silk crepe interwoven with synthetic silver threads
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Title
Japan's Thousand Island Mt. Huzi
Artist
Karol Koslowski
Artist Life Dates
(District of Stopnica, Poland, 1885 - 1969)
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1960-1965
Accession Number
2001/2.118
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Title
Untitled (Street Scene)
Artist
Jean Paul Slusser
Physical Description
This is a watercolor painting in a vertical format painted in bright colors of red, blue, yellow and green. In the foreground, there is a group of men working around the base of a tall pole from which hangs a large red flag or banner. Behind the men is a backdrop of red drapery and to the side, a wooden staircase. There are buildings in the background with yellowish brown walls and green roofs.
Artist Life Dates
1886 -1981
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
20th century
Accession Number
2009/1.539
Medium and Support
watercolor on paper
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Title
Male Spirit Spouse Figure (Blolo Bian)
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Baule Peoples Côte D'Ivoire
Physical Description
Male figured seated on high-backed stool with hands resting on abdomen; symmetrical scarification patterns on cheeks and temples, also down center of forehead and at base of the nose. Coiffure is high crested and segmented. Figure wears sandals and necklace or amulet around neck. Figure has sheen to patina, pigmented deep brown in contrast to stool. Figure has bore hole in back between buttocks.
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1920-1960
Accession Number
1971/2.32
Medium and Support
wood, pigment
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Title
Black silk gauze fukuro obi with large woven floral 'hosoge' medallions
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Black silk leno weave (gauze) fukuro obi; floral medallion patterns woven in lacquered red, gold-coated paper (kinran). and a synthetic turquoise metal-coated paper.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1960s-1980s
Accession Number
2005/1.334
Medium and Support
silk leno weave (gauze) with patterns woven in coated paper
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Title
Red kimono with stenciled dot pattern and woven brocade patches
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
White silk with stenciled (katazone) hitta kanoko design in red, and woven brocade patches using paper strips coated in black and red lacquer and silver (ginran). Upper half of lining is red plain weave silk (momi); lower half is lime green silk damask (rinsu), woven in T-diaper pattern (suyagata).
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1930s-1940s
Accession Number
2005/1.375
Medium and Support
white silk with red stencil design and brocade patches
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Title
Black silk michiyuki coat with flower and vine design
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
This michiyuki is made from black velvet and features a subtle flower and vine design (peony karakusa scroll). The inside lining is gray silk. It has small buttons down the front.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1960s-1970s
Accession Number
2005/1.400
Medium and Support
black velvet with gray silk lining
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Title
Uchikake (Wedding Cloak)
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
The apple-green fabric is pure silk brocade, woven in an overall pattern of maple leaves scattered on a flowing stream—an allusion to a famous classical poem. Lying on top of the brocade is a thick layer of embroidery, with plum blossoms in red silk, and pine branches and doves in dazzling metallic threads of gold, silver, and copper.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1920-1980
Accession Number
1986/1.215
Medium and Support
silk brocade with gilt paper (kinran), embroidery and couched metallic threads
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Title
Black jacquard woven haori with woven design of bird-and-flower motifs
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Heavy black crepe silk with woven designs in lacquered rust-colored, silver, and gold metallic threads. Hand-painted design of Noh actors on light peach lining.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1960s-1970s
Accession Number
2005/1.354
Medium and Support
heavy black silk with woven designs in rust, silver and gold mettalic threads
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Title
Lavender kimono with overall woven pattern of a Hannya shinkyo text
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Figured satin weave lavender silk with vertical Hannya shinko text.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1985
Accession Number
2005/1.386
Medium and Support
silk with woven design of Chinese characters
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Title
Beige Obi with wax-resist overall patterns of rust stripes, interrupted by wax-resist and embroidered designs of floral scrolls
Artist
Minagawa Gekka
Physical Description
The obi is made of plain silk, on which beige and brown stripes are pattern-dyed. Scrolls of exotic flowers and leaves are hand painted with orange and black color, and embroidered with metallic threads. These plant designs are located on two parts of the obi; when wearing, one will appear in front, and other will appear on the back bow. There is a hand-painted artist’s seal of Chinese character “moon” on one end of the obi.
Artist Life Dates
1892-1987
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1950
Accession Number
2005/1.325
Medium and Support
Plain-weave silk with wax-resist pattern, hand-painted designs, and embroidery
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Title
Shigaraki ware plate
Artist
Takahashi Rakusai III
Physical Description
A rectangular shaped plate with eight circular patterns. The rim is slightly flared out to create the concave shape. The top surface is unglazed, scorched to an intense red. The bottom does not have foot. In the kiln, the thick clay slabs were stacked close together so that the floating ash landed on the edge of the plate facing the flame. The circular patterns are areas that were protected from the flame by cylinder clay spacers.
Artist Life Dates
1898-1976
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1960
Accession Number
1963/2.76
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Seat of George Washington: Mount Vernon
Artist
Artist Unknown
Century
mid-19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1840
Accession Number
2002/1.174
Medium and Support
gouache on cream wove paper
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Title
Two Actors in a Kabuki Play (Natsumatsuri Naniwano Kagami)
Artist
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)
Physical Description
Japanese woodblock color print depicting two men standing, while the man on the man standing on the right grabs the arm of the man standing on the left.
Artist Life Dates
1777 - 1835
Century
mid-19th century
Object Creation Date
1815-1868
Accession Number
2011/2.61
Medium and Support
color woodblock print on paper
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Title
Covered jar with design of flower maiden, sage, and child amidst flowering plants
Artist
Artist Unknown, Imari ware, Japan
Physical Description
A medium size, well potted porcelain jar with wooden rid, round shoulder and neck. Floral designs are painted with blue underglaze and red and gold overglaze enamels. There are Chinese scholar and attendant boy with a fan on one side and Japanese lady in kimono on the opposite side, painted with enamels. Band of flowers on the neck, another broader band of chrysanthemums on the shoulder. There is also a band of leaf patterns on the bottom. A large crack from neck to the middle of the body; porcelain glaze has small cracks all over the body. The foot is unglazed; the eye is fully glazed. No glaze on the rim. The teak wood lid, a later addition, has a finial made of an ivory netsuke of laughing Hotei.
Century
Mid-17th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1650
Accession Number
1972/2.72A&B
Medium and Support
porcelain, blue underglaze, and enamel overglaze painting
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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
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Title
Baramasa series: The Eleventh Month
Artist
India, Rajasthan, Bundi School
Century
mid 18th century
Object Creation Date
mid 18th century
Accession Number
1985/2.141
Medium and Support
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Title
General George Washington on His Charger
Artist
Emma E. Martin
Artist Life Dates
active ca. 1850
Century
mid-19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1850
Accession Number
2002/1.173
Medium and Support
steel pen drawing with colored inks on cream wove paper
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Title
Hymnal
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Ethiopia
Century
Mid-17th century
Object Creation Date
mid 17th century
Accession Number
1987/1.195.7
Medium and Support
ink and color on paper
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Title
Landscape
Artist
Bernard Descamps
Physical Description
A curvy dirt road wrapping around a town scene with bare buildings. There is a large tree on the right side, empty sky above.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1947
Century
mid-19th century
Object Creation Date
1912
Accession Number
2013/2.552
Medium and Support
black and white chalk on brown paper, laid down on blue paper
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Title
Temple in the Mountains
Artist
Fujimoto Tetsuseki (Tesseki)
Artist Life Dates
1817-1863
Century
mid-19th century
Object Creation Date
mid 19th century
Accession Number
1985/2.23
Medium and Support
album leaf, ink and light color on paper
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Title
Kabuki Actors in a Play
Artist
Utagawa Kunisato
Physical Description
Japanese woodblock color print depicting a man standing behind a woman and holding an umbrella above the woman's head, protecting the woman and her baby from the rain.
Artist Life Dates
active 1850s
Century
mid-19th century
Object Creation Date
1815-1868
Accession Number
2011/2.60
Medium and Support
color woodblock print on paper
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Title
Italian Villa
Artist
Caroline T. Beam
Artist Life Dates
(active )
Century
mid 19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1850
Accession Number
2002/1.171
Medium and Support
charcoal and white chalk on heavy paper with prepared sand surface
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Title
Landscape in the Mi Style
Artist
Hine Taizan
Artist Life Dates
1813-1869
Century
mid-19th century
Object Creation Date
mid 19th century
Accession Number
1985/2.22
Medium and Support
album leaf, ink and light color on paper
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Title
Head of Dionysus (or Apollo)
Artist
Anonymous Roman
Century
mid-2nd century
Object Creation Date
mid-2nd century
Accession Number
1976/2.1
Medium and Support
marble
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Title
Shaving bowl with design of long-tail bird and flowers
Artist
Artist Unknown, Imari ware, Japan
Physical Description
A medium size, shallow bowl with a semi-circular cut out on the rim. The bowl has flat surface on the rim and is concaved in the middle like a soup bowl. It has two holes on the opposite side of the cut out and a short foot. There is a blue band around the rim. There are two long-tailed birds in red, pale orange and yellow, perched on a blue pine tree which grows underneath the birds. Behind the pine tree trunk, there is a cherry tree in full blossom, its brunches extends in circle around the rim. The cherry tree and blossoms are in red, pale orange and yellow. More cherry flowers adorn the background of the birds. There are also red peonies on the left side of the pine tree; peony flowers also appear as spray on the four sides of the rim, backed by blue cloud design.
Century
Mid-17th century
Object Creation Date
mid 17th century
Accession Number
2002/2.7
Medium and Support
porcelain, blue underglaze, and enamel overglaze painting
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Title
MS Leaf: Hymnal
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Ethiopia
Century
Mid-17th century
Object Creation Date
mid 17th century
Accession Number
1959/1.151
Medium and Support
Ink on vellum
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Title
Christ giving communion to the Apostles in an historiated initial "C"
Artist
Artist Unknown, Netherlands
Physical Description
Eight robed male figures, each with a halo, kneel before a v-shaped bench or rail. They face a male figure with a crossed halo that stands on the other side of the bench, holding a golden chalice in his left hand and a circular white wafer imprinted with a crucifixion scene in his right. An altar draped with a red cloth appears behind him. The entire scene is enframed within the letter "C."
Century
Mid-15th century
Object Creation Date
1440-1460
Accession Number
1968/2.44
Medium and Support
tempera and gold leaf on vellum
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Title
Charger with lion and peony design, one of pair
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Century
early to mid 19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1800-1850
Accession Number
2002/2.2
Medium and Support
porcelain, blue underglaze and enamel overglaze painting
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Title
Red Cliff of China
Artist
Mori Kansai
Artist Life Dates
1814-1894
Century
mid- to late 19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1844-1894
Accession Number
1986/1.163
Medium and Support
hanging scroll, ink on paper
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Title
View of the Principal Square of a North Italian Town
Artist
Francesco Zuccarelli
Artist Life Dates
1702 - 1788
Century
Mid-to-late 18th century
Object Creation Date
2nd half of 18th century
Accession Number
1959/2.78
Medium and Support
pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite underdrawing on thick off-white p
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Title
Charger with lion and peony design, one of pair
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Century
early to mid 19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1800-1850
Accession Number
2002/2.1
Medium and Support
porcelain, blue underglaze and enamel overglaze painting
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