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- Title
- White Satin Underkimono with Woven Auspicious Designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Satin damask woven designs of pine, bamboo, and plum (shochikubai) and the takarazukushi
- Century
- Second half of 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.399
- Medium and Support
- satin damask with woven designs
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Goldweight in the shape of a seed pod
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- Goldweight in the shape of a small ball with a short, slightly curved, angular tail or handle attached to it.
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.134
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Kneeling Monk Devotee (one of a pair)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Thailand
- Physical Description
- Kneeling statue of Buddhist monk devotee Mogallana or Shariputra on a pedestal with round face, hair in tight curls, elongated ears, and hands placed together in mediatation. The pedestal is decorated with lotus petals, and the devotee wears an intricate, close-fitting robe.
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1800-1932
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.455.1
- Medium and Support
- lacquered and gilded copper alloy
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Vessel
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba People Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.120
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Kimono
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Summer linen kimono with stenciled patterns of water wheels.
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.1
- Medium and Support
- linen
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- 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
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- View of Venice
- Artist
- Félix Ziem
- Artist Life Dates
- 1821-1911
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1841-1911
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.353
- Medium and Support
- oil on panel
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Kimono Fragment, with Stenciled Design of Chrysanthemums, Hemp-leaf Flowers, and Snowflakes
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1860-1912
- Accession Number
- 1930.39
- Medium and Support
- silk crepe (chirimen) with paste-resist designs
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Farmers! Housewives! Children! - The President of the United States Appeals to You Personally - United States Department of Agriculture
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- Text Excerpt: Farmers! Housewives! Children! - The President of the United States Appeals to You Personally - These extracts from the address of President Wilson should be read carefully by every one who produces or can produce food and by all who consume food: - MY FELLOW COUTRYMEN: The entrance of our own beloved country into the grim and terrible war for democracy and human rights which has shaken the world creates so many problems of natural life and action which call for immediate consideration and settlement that I hope you will permit me to address to you a few words of earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them. … (headers) Abundant Food Supplies Essential … Make Sure of Large Harvests … To Young Men and Boys … To the Farmers of the South … The Government to Cooperate … To the Middlemen .. To Every Household - The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together! - Woodrow Wilson (signed) [Text Excerpted from the "Message to the American People" on April 15, 1917]
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1917-1919
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.123
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Goldweight with geometric pattern with spiral center
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.141
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Brocade obijime (obi cord) with a tassel
- Artist
- Dômyô
- Physical Description
- Kumihimo (braided) silk brocade with silver metallic threads.
- Artist Life Dates
- kumihimo atelier, Kyoto, Japan
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.365
- Medium and Support
- braided silk cord with silver metallic threads
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- 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
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Homestead
- Artist
- Blanche Ackers
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1916
- Century
- late 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1987-2000
- Accession Number
- 2002/1.196
- Medium and Support
- graphite, colored pencil, crayon, black ink, and marker on white wove paper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Purple haori with supplementary weft brocade woven bird-and-flowers designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Purple silk damask (rinzu) in T-paper pattern (sayagata), bokashi dyed so that the shoulders are a darker purple than the lower half of the haori. Woven designs of phoenixes, paulownia, cranes, chysanthemums, etc., incorporate metallic threads. Lining is orange and white silk. There are purple and white kumihimo (a kind of cord) with tassels.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1930-1939
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.355
- Medium and Support
- purple silk damask with woven designs
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Purple shibori kimono with overall pattern of tiny squares in diagonal rows
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Purple silk crepe with hitta miura and hand tie-dyed design achieving the effect of many diagonal rows of tiny squares. Upper lining is plain weave momi (red silk) and lower and cuff linings are mauve pink.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1930s-1940s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.376
- Medium and Support
- purple silk crepe with tie dye design
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- 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
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Fan shaped obidome (obi brooch), inscribed bodai no tame
- Artist
- Taniguchi Haruki
- Physical Description
- Metal brooch in the shape of a fan with incised and inlaid decor, including floral designs. "Bodai no tame" is inscribed along with the artist's signature, Taniguchi Haruki, and indecipherable characters.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950-1975
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.369
- Medium and Support
- metal with incised and inlaid decor
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- 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
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Lioness Reclining on High Base
- Artist
- Edward Kemeys
- Artist Life Dates
- 1843-1907
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1863-1907
- Accession Number
- 1955/1.144
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Small blue-and-white jar with abstracted plant design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- This bottle has a slightly out-turned astragal mouth. Short slender neck and a bulbous body that is rather heavy. The whole foot is rather high and thick. The body is decorated with a simple abstract floral design in cobalt-blue pigment.
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/1.195
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with blue underglaze painting
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Black Fox
- Artist
- Fred Alten
- Artist Life Dates
- 1871-1945
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1912-1945
- Accession Number
- 2002/1.214
- Medium and Support
- carved and painted wood
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- The Poultry Man
- Artist
- George Overbury Hart
- Artist Life Dates
- 1868 - 1933
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1868-1933
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.361
- Medium and Support
- color monotype on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- Sam Mackey
- Artist Life Dates
- 1897-1992
- Century
- late 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1987-1992
- Accession Number
- 2002/1.203
- Medium and Support
- black, blue, and red crayon on cream wove paper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Storm in the North Sea
- Artist
- Robert Hopkin
- Artist Life Dates
- Scotland, 1832-1909
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1832-1909
- Accession Number
- 1910.1
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Is There A Red Cross Service Flag in Your Home? A Heart and a Dollar Are All You Need - Join the Red Cross
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1917
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.111
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Raku Style Gray Tea Bowl
- Artist
- Sen Sôshu X
- Physical Description
- Deep, thick-walled gray teabowl with intentionally unever lip and body texture that brings out a range of gray tones in the glaze.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1913 - 1999
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.71
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with nezumi-iro (mouse-gray) glaze
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Don't Stop Saving Food - United States Food Administration
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1917-1919
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.133
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Conch trumpet, in an embossed silver mount, inlaid with lapis lazuli, turquoise and coral
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal
- Physical Description
- An elaborately decorated conch shell trumpet, with extensions and a side chamber made from silver, inlaid with other precious metals and semi-precious stones of turquoise, lapiz lazuli, and mountain coral.
- Century
- 9th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 800-1900
- Accession Number
- 1982/2.42A
- Medium and Support
- conch shell, silver, vermeil, lapis lazuli, and coral
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- 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
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Beige and brown Shibori haori with abstract design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- White silk with yokobiki kanoko dyed pattern with contrasting beige/brown tatebiki kanoko dyed pattern.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950-1960
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.346
- Medium and Support
- white silk with brown design and yellow and white silk lining
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Windfall (Czech-Republic)
- Artist
- Jill Mathis
- Physical Description
- A black and white photo of a forest. A white line down the center divides the photo.
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born 1964
- Century
- 20th-21st century
- Object Creation Date
- 1996
- Accession Number
- 2011/2.170
- Medium and Support
- digital image, chromogenic print on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
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- Title
- Untitled [Ohne Titel] (1945) New Year Card for Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
- Artist
- Asger Jorn
- Physical Description
- New Years card with attached print that depicts an abstract figure with one large eye and long hair.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1914-1973
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1945
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.562
- Medium and Support
- etching on heavy wove paper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Obidome (obi brooch) in shape of dancing lion
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Metal lion with flowing mane and tail. Gold inlaid spits decorate his body and color his eyes. The lion's head is thrown impossibly backwards, allowing a view of the head as if from above. The golden eyes look upwards.
- Century
- Second half of 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950-1975
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.368
- Medium and Support
- metal with gold inlay
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Panel with Geometric Design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 1984/2.74
- Medium and Support
- raffia
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Square Rouge Box with Lid, One of a Pair
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.368A&B
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with overglaze enamel painting
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Vessel
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon
- Century
- early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.110
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Peacock and Lion Club
- Artist
- Edward Kemeys
- Artist Life Dates
- 1843-1907
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1863-1907
- Accession Number
- 1955/1.137
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Purple silk michiyuki coat
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Silk Michiyuki coat with deep purple coloring (kinsha) on the top portion that transitions to shades of purples, pinks, and yellows on the bottom portion that has the appearance of puffy golden clouds ar sunrise. The inner lining is a crosswork of white and pink that matches the pinks in the outer garment (hakebiki).
- Century
- second half of 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1970s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.401
- Medium and Support
- purple dyed silk
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Royal Sword
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.56
- Medium and Support
- iron, wood and copper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- 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 0.07554
- Title
- Soneto Burlesco. A Licito... from the "Góngora: vight poëmes" by Luis de Góngora y Argote
- Artist
- Pablo Picasso
- Physical Description
- Text of poem on left and two portraits of men on either side of text.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1881-1973
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.574
- Medium and Support
- aquatint on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Majolica Platter
- Artist
- Anonymous Italian
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.40
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with tin glaze
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Hamsa (Goose)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Thailand
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - early 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.460
- Medium and Support
- gilt and painted metal
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Vase with Landscape Design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1970/2.108
- Medium and Support
- Porcelain with overglaze enamel painting
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Spring Warms River Nu
- Artist
- Chang Ku-nien
- Physical Description
- Two men rafting in the waves of River Nu.
- Artist Life Dates
- (Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
- Century
- last quarter of 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1971
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.144
- Medium and Support
- horizontal hanging scroll, ink on rice paper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Kimono
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Silk dyed with a black background and festive drum and flower designs in the bottom portion. Three family crests below shoulders and back collor.
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.3
- Medium and Support
- silk
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Le Coup et le Comptoir
- Artist
- Pierre Bonnard
- Artist Life Dates
- 1867-1947
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1867-1947
- Accession Number
- 1992/2.6
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Binary Teapot
- Artist
- Hugh McKay
- Physical Description
- two hollow spheres with caps joined at center, with a hollow "spout" and "handle" joined by an overarching piece of wood with bark
- Artist Life Dates
- (active Long Beach, California, 1951 - )
- Century
- late 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1998
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.162
- Medium and Support
- maple
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- Baby
- Artist
- Jimmy Lee Sudduth
- Artist Life Dates
- (active Fayette, Alabama, 1910 - 2007)
- Century
- late 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/1.191
- Medium and Support
- pigmented sweet mud on plywood
- relevance
- rank 0.07554
- Title
- New Consecration is the Duty of the Living (photo)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- Text: New Consecration is the Duty of the Living so that Our Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain - (center) "To such a task (Victory over German Autocracy and all it represents) we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to shed her blood and her treasure for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other." - Woodrow Wilson - (left panel heading) Al Soldier's Farewell - Written on the Even of his Departure … - (right panel heading) A Mother's Comfort - Words of Plato Console Now Whose Son Fell in Battle … - (bottom) "You ask me when peace will come. We went into this war for a great and worthy object. Peace will come when that object has been attained. Before God I hope it may not come until that time." - Abraham Lincoln In Darkest Days of Civil War - Issued by Connecticut State Council of Defense
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1917
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.125
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.07554