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Untitled; Don Hazlitt

Title
Untitled
Artist
Don Hazlitt
Physical Description
Sketch of tightly grouped volumetric forms rendered in thick dark lines with some shading; signed “DH” in upper left corner, “7/84” in upper right corner.
Artist Life Dates
(1948 - )
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1984
Accession Number
2008/2.231
Medium and Support
graphite on paper
relevance
rank 16.78154
Primary Keywords
abstraction
cubes (geometric figures)
drawing (image-making)
freehand drawings
geometric
geometric abstraction
geometric figures
geometric motifs
perspective drawings

Goldweight with geometric pattern with XX in center; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern with XX in center
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a square, with a geometric pattern with a double "X" form in the center and edged teeth along two sides.
Century
Possibly 20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1986/2.137
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 16.19185
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
geometric shapes
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Rectangular goldweight with geometric pattern consisting of lines and "edged teeth".
Century
Possibly 20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1986/2.144
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 16.19185
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
geometric shapes
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a square base, bearing a geometric pattern derived of the swastika form.
Century
possibly 20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1986/2.143
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.80827
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs

Goldweight with geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a square base, with a geometric pattern with an "N" or "Z" form in the center and edged teeth along two sides.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.484
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with a geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with a geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a rectangular base bearing three undecorated bars.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.422
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Palm wine cup; Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo

Title
Palm wine cup
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Cylindrical, wood carved cup with geometric motifs and linear, interlocking surface designs that cover the entire surface of the object.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1940
Accession Number
1983/1.372
Medium and Support
wood
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
cups
geometric motifs
prestige

Goldweight with geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Square goldweight or lid of a gold dust box, hollow in the back, with a geometric pattern with 2 spirals in the center and a row of edged teeth along 2 of the sides.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.487
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight in a geometric shape; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight in a geometric shape
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight with a base in the shape of a pentagon, bearing two undecorated bars.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.440
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with a geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with a geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight with geometric pattern consisting of a double "star" form.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
20th century
Accession Number
1997/1.372
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a rectangle, bearing a geometric pattern with a zigzag line along one side and edged teeth along the other.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.491
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a square base, with a geometric pattern derived from a swastika form.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.402
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight in geometric shape; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight in geometric shape
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a solid, undecorated square with a zigzag pattern along its edges and small, flat squares at the four corners.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.496
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with geometric pattern with two spirals; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern with two spirals
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a square, with a geometric pattern of 2 spirals in the center and edged teeth along two sides.
Century
Possibly 20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1986/2.136
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight with a square base bearing a geometric pattern of a solid, undecorated "X" form encased in a solid, undecorated square with two small protrusions in the middle of two of its sides.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.480
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with a geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with a geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a square base with a geometric pattern consisting of 3 half circles and 1 spiral in the center and rows of edged teeth on two sides.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.411
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with two solid bars on top; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with two solid bars on top
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a square base, with two solid, undecorated bars on top.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.501
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a rectangular base, with a geometric pattern consisting of rectangular forms in the center and a single undulating line along the two long edges.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.486
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with a geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with a geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a rectangular base bearing a geometric pattern of four shorter bars, attached to a longer bar on top.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.427
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight in a geometric shape; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight in a geometric shape
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a solid rectangle with a geometric pattern of lines and incisions along its four long sides and an incised "X" form on the two short sides.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.382
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight in triangular shape; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight in triangular shape
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a triangle, bearing undecorated lines along the edges of its shape and across the middle, with a small protrusion in the middle of the triangle's base.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.490
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a square with a geometric pattern with a spiral form in the center and edged teeth along two sides.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.477
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with a geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with a geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a square base, with a geometric pattern on top.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.394
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight in geometric shape; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight in geometric shape
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a a solid, undecorated triangle with a differently-colored, filled-up hole in the middle and flat circles protruding from the three corners.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.493
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight in shape of swastika; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight in shape of swastika
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a square base, bearing a solid, undecorated swastika form.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.384
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a square, with a geometric pattern, consisting of variously sized triangles in the center and edged teeth along two edges.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.479
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight in a geometric shape; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight in a geometric shape
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of four flat cubes with a geometrical pattern consiting of individual "stars", each attached to two other cubes at two of the corners.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.410
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight with geometric pattern; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight with geometric pattern
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a square base, bearing a geometric pattern with squares and triangles in the center and edged teeth along two edges.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.500
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.48266
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)

Goldweight in a geometric shape; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title
Goldweight in a geometric shape
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Semi-circular goldweight with horizontally incised rays.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.478
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 14.32516
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)
sun

Palm Wine Drinking Horn; Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo

Title
Palm Wine Drinking Horn
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Buffalo horn with concentric circles, geometric shapes and beadlike bands carved in relief follow the natural contours of the horn to its pointed tip. Has a local repair—a metal suture sewn at the mouth to stabilize a crack. Has cord pierced through tip.
Century
late 18th - early 19th century
Object Creation Date
1800-1850
Accession Number
2005/1.209
Medium and Support
buffalo horn
relevance
rank 14.32516
Primary Keywords
drinking horns
geometric motifs
prestige

Mother-of-pearl inlayed lacquer tray with geometric designs; Artist Unknown, Thailand

Title
Mother-of-pearl inlayed lacquer tray with geometric designs
Artist
Artist Unknown, Thailand
Physical Description
A square shaped, wood tray with curved corners tray. The interior is red lacquered, and the exterior is coated with black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlays in geometric shapes.
Century
Late 19th-early 20th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2005/1.468
Medium and Support
lacquered wood with mother-of-pearl inlay
relevance
rank 14.17106
Primary Keywords
betel nuts
geometric motifs
inlays
trays

Moon Over Cypress; Italo Scanga

Title
Moon Over Cypress
Artist
Italo Scanga
Physical Description
This is a colorful abstract print with geometric shapes in blue, yellow, green and red outlined in black. There are also three white areas with black line drawings that depict a plant in a flower pot and two cypress trees in the bottom section and a landscape with mountains and a yellow moon in the upper right portion.
Artist Life Dates
Born 1932
Object Creation Date
1989
Accession Number
2010/2.40
Medium and Support
lithograph on cream Rives BFK
relevance
rank 14.17106
Primary Keywords
flowers (plants)
geometric motifs
moon
trees

Design Cloth; Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo

Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Square panel of raffia, cut-pile cloth; top is even, plush surface; intersecting linear pattern creates geometic diamond motifs in contrasting dark and light browns. Back is woven raffia cloth.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1970
Accession Number
1986/2.105
Medium and Support
raffia, cloth, dye
relevance
rank 14.02023
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
natural fiber
prestige
raffiawork
textiles

Mat; Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo

Title
Mat
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Flat raffia mat with woven geometric, diamond-lke pattern of interlocking lines in green, natural and purple.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1970
Accession Number
1985/1.165
Medium and Support
Raffia fiber
relevance
rank 13.58642
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
mats (floor coverings)
prestige
raffiawork
textiles
wall hangings
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