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Title
Ivory snuff bottle in the shape of corn
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1912-1949
Accession Number
1980/2.72
Medium and Support
ivory
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Male Folk Figure
Artist
Artist Unknown, India
Object Creation Date
n.d.
Accession Number
1978/2.110
Medium and Support
bronze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
The Daibutsu (Great Buddha) at Kamakura
Artist
Kawase Hasui
Physical Description
The daibutsu, or giant buddha, statue takes up the bulk of the pictorial space. Curving upwards and towards the statue is a large pine. At the feet of the green hued daibutsu statue are three women of different generations: a young girl, an adult woman, and an elderly woman. Although a few clouds hover in the sky, the sun appears to be shining brightly, casting some shadows of nearby trees into the picture.
Artist Life Dates
1883-1957
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1930
Accession Number
1982/1.203
Medium and Support
color woodblock print on paper, ôban tate-e size
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Mizusashi (cold water jar for the tea ceremony)
Artist
Seifû Yohei III
Artist Life Dates
1854-1914
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1893-1914
Accession Number
1954/1.515A&B
Medium and Support
porcelain with celadon glaze and inlaid white slip design
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Eight Views of Edo Suburbs: Fishing Boats Returning to Gyôtoku
Artist
Andô Hiroshige
Physical Description
The pyramid shaped hills in the background of this print are those of the boiling houses and salt piles of Gyôtoku’s salt industry. A ferry boat, or watashi-bune, carries passengers in the foreground of this picture. In this print a shipman steers using the large rudder located in the back of the boat.
Artist Life Dates
1797-1858
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1835-1842
Accession Number
1948/1.138
Medium and Support
color woodblock print on paper
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
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Title
Everything You Wish in the Nine Heavens: Gods of Wealth Increase Good Fortune
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description
Two male figures wearing official robes and hats, sit side by side on thrones. The one on the right holds a shoe-shaped ingot and a scepter. The god on the left holds only a shoe-shaped ingot. In front of them is basin filled with coins and rarities such as jewels, branches of coral and shining ingots. On the right, a smaller male figure holds a horse on a tray while his counter part on the left holds a brush and a scroll. At the top is a sinuous dragon whose spine is composed of coins and above him is a horse bearing a stack of shoe-shaped ingots.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
20th century
Accession Number
2006/2.49
Medium and Support
color woodblock print on paper
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Sword, ornament, and scabbard
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
The sword is long and slightly curved; the metal smith's name is engraved on the metal handle. The scabbard is painted with black laquer with image of samurai and cherry tree. He wears a jacket, pants, a straw hat and a sword, holding a brush, possibly writing a poem on a piece of paper hanging from the tree. The figure and tree are painted with rose-color and gold laquer.
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1858
Accession Number
1973/2.88
Medium and Support
forged steel, lacquer, and gold
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Covered box with a knob and alternating panels of vegetal scrolls and lattices
Artist
Artist Unknown, Thailand, Sawankhalok ware
Physical Description
Small-size covered box, the lotus bud handle and surrounding medallion in brown, the body and lid with alternating panels of vegetal scrolls and lattices. Each panel is separated by a raised line. The foot is painted brown. Clear glaze.
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
circa 15th centrury
Accession Number
1983/1.432A&B
Medium and Support
stoneware with underglaze iron decoration and clear glaze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Seated figure of a woman with bowls (originally part of the furnishings of a tomb)
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date
386-534
Accession Number
1950/2.11
Medium and Support
earthenware with traces of polychrome
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Dipa Lakshmi
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1979/2.34
Medium and Support
bronze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Tao Yuanming Appreciating Chrysanthemums
Artist
Ni Tian (Ni T'ien)
Physical Description
Pastoral poet Tao Yuanming (372–427) and a boy-servant bearing chrysanthemums on his back are shown. Two pine trees dominate the composition. Tao Yuanming’s forward gaze and slightly hunched posture exhibit his full inner exhilaration when chrysanthemums were collected. The subtle smile on the poet’s face seems also to reflect a moment of transcendence.
Has signature and seal of the artist
Artist Life Dates
1855 - 1919
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1855-1919
Accession Number
1987/1.275
Medium and Support
hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Yue ware celadon bowl
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date
11th century
Accession Number
1987/1.301
Medium and Support
stoneware with celadon glaze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Folk deity: standing male figure with spear
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1979/2.61
Medium and Support
bronze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Blue-and-white jar with dragon-and-cloud design
Artist
Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description
Large porcelain jar decorated with cobalt pigment under colorless glaze. Repeating clouds border the rim of the jar, while a dragon head and feet are depicted on the main body below. Two blue bands separate the design from the white base below, balancing the rim and bottom portion of the jar. The very tip and base of the piece are also marked with blue bands.
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2004/1.282
Medium and Support
porcelain with cobalt pigment under colorless glaze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Storage jar with blue glaze
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description
Stoneware jar with cobalt blue glaze dripping down vessel; foot and bottom ? of jar left unglazed
Century
1st half of 7th century
Object Creation Date
600-649
Accession Number
1962/1.100
Medium and Support
stoneware with light buff body and cobalt blue glaze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Siva on Nandi
Artist
Artist Unknown, India
Object Creation Date
n.d.
Accession Number
1978/2.96
Medium and Support
bronze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
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Title
Tigress and Cubs
Artist
Konoshima Ôkoku
Physical Description
Two cubs lay beneath their mother, whose back is to the viewer, yet curves her head around to face outwards. Her eyes are golden, and look out towards the viewer. One cub looks up at its mother with closed eyes. The mother's white whiskers stand out against the otherwise warm, golden tones of the painting.
Artist Life Dates
1877-1938
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1st half of 20th century
Accession Number
1989/2.6
Medium and Support
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Small four-lobed white bowl (mukôzuke; 1 of 8; with 1954/1.482-488)
Artist
Seifû Yohei III
Artist Life Dates
1854-1914
Century
Late 19th-early 20th century
Object Creation Date
1880s-1914
Accession Number
1954/1.481
Medium and Support
porcelain with clear glaze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Hôeido Tôkaidô Series: Night Snow at Kambara (Second state)
Artist
Andô Hiroshige
Physical Description
In this print, sophisticated use of soft lines, rounded forms, dark sky, and subtle tones convey the utter silence and weariness of the figures as they trudge through the night-time snow near Kambara.
Artist Life Dates
1797-1858
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1833-1834
Accession Number
1948/1.123
Medium and Support
color woodblock print on paper
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
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Title
Tall Screen on Plinth with Finials
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date
1368-1644
Accession Number
2008/2.279
Medium and Support
glazed pottery
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
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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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
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Title
Miniature Dhyani Buddha
Artist
Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal
Physical Description
A tiny tear-drop-shaped metal (copper?) pendant, edged with beading, serving as support for a minature seated image of a Dhyani Buddha, made of inlaid semi-precious stones and copper wire. This may have originally been part of a necklace or tiara, or part of a brooch for a high-ranking monk's ritual costume.
Century
19th-20th century
Object Creation Date
19th century - early 20th century
Accession Number
2006/2.63
Medium and Support
copper? set with mountain coral, turquoise, and lapis lazuli
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Red felt hanging with dragon
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1989/2.91
Medium and Support
embroidered felt
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Sutra Writings
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 19th century
Accession Number
1997/1.175
Medium and Support
incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Courtesan and client: parody of the Kiritsubo Chapter of the Tale of Genji (Mitate Genji Kiritsubo)
Artist
Okumura Masanobu
Physical Description
A monochrome print depicting two standing women and a reclining man in a room. The taller woman, a courtesan, wears an elaborate kimono of butterfly design and under-kimono of geometric patterns; her hair is tied on the back, wearing tortoise shell comb and hairpin. She is holding skirts of kimono and under-kimono with her right hand and is hiding her left hand under the kimono. The second woman, an attendant, is standing behind the courtesan, holding a doll of a boy and her face turning away. She wears a plain kimono with pine tree design and obi (sash) with striped patterns. The man is reclining and looking toward the courtesan. They seem to engage in conversation. The man wears kimono with design of coins and short jacket with plaid patterns. His hair is shaved on top and tied on the back. There is a folded screen behind him, depicting a plum tree by river. In front of him, there are a sake pitcher, sake cup and its stand, and a bowl with food accompanied by a tray and chopsticks. There is a title of the print in cartouche at upper right.
Artist Life Dates
1686-1764
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
1711-1716
Accession Number
1948/1.198
Medium and Support
Oban (large-size) sumizurii-e (monochrome woodblock print) on paper
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Dragon head: ornament from glazed tile roof;
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date
1368-1644
Accession Number
1973/2.24
Medium and Support
earthenware with traces of blue painting
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Vishnu and Attendants with a Solar Disc in the Background
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
Century
10th–12th century
Object Creation Date
10th century - 12th century
Accession Number
1976/2.45
Medium and Support
bronze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Rice Cake Mold
Artist
Artist Unknown, Korea
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2004/1.299
Medium and Support
porcelain
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
A Votive plaque depicting the Buddha seated in dhyana mudra, and flanked by two stupas
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description
A small, thin, molded clay plaque with a bas-relief scene.
Century
7th-9th century
Object Creation Date
618-907
Accession Number
1964/2.23
Medium and Support
terracotta, molded
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Two men mounted on a donkey (miniature folk bronze)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India
Accession Number
1977/2.142B
Medium and Support
bronze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Blue-and-white water dropper with landscape design
Artist
Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description
It is simple in shape, like a donut but with a sharply trimmed rim in the manner of a metal vessel. The hole in the middle is believed to be a symbol of Eastern philosophy. Designs are painted on the surface in cobalt blue pigment.
Century
17th–18th century
Object Creation Date
late 17th century - early 18th century
Accession Number
1965/2.57
Medium and Support
porcelain with blue underglaze painting
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Animals of the Zodiac (pair with 2003/1.383.2)
Artist
Yoshikawa Kôkei
Physical Description
The animals are presented in zodiac sequence, from right to left: mouse, ox, tiger, hare, dragon, serpent, horse, goat, monkey, chicken, dog, and boar. The eight-fold screen allows the animals to seem to walk across the space. Negative space plays a significant role in the screen, creating a place for the animals to exist and at the same time extending into the room.
Artist Life Dates
active 1920's
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1924
Accession Number
2003/1.383.1
Medium and Support
one of a pair of six-fold screens, ink and color on silk
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
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Title
Majiayao Shallow Bowl with painted "flowing water" design
Artist
Artist Unknown, China, Majiayao Culture
Physical Description
Bowl-shaped ceramic vessel with bold swirling designs painted in black against a neutral background.
Artist Life Dates
2600 BCE - 2300 BCE
Century
32nd c bce - 29th c bce
Object Creation Date
3290 BCE - 2880 BCE
Accession Number
2005/2.89
Medium and Support
earthenware with black slip painted decoration
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Netsuke of seated Hotei
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2002/2.33
Medium and Support
ivory
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Jian Ware Teabowl
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
13th century
Object Creation Date
13th century
Accession Number
1983/1.440
Medium and Support
stoneware with mottled black-and-brown glaze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Standing Parvati
Artist
Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
Physical Description
Parvati stands on a tiny base with little feet in a strict unbending stance. The body is elongated with a small waist, the hips billowing out and tapering in a stylized way to the feet. He has broad shoulders, pointy breasts that fall quite low in the chest and has two arms holding a bowl in her right one and a lotus flower in her left. She wears a d simple tight fitting skirt decorated with incised lines and a corded belt that falls down the center of her body with five rows of cords falling from the center and wrapping around her legs creating a fishbone pattern. She wears necklaces with added pendants on her shoulders and her coiffure is tied in a chignon on the right side at the back of her head wearing a headdress that has decorations that cascade down both shoulders. Like the accompanying Shiva figure she has large eyes and what appear to be two sets of eyebrows, but the tikka on her forehead is of a flame shape.
Century
15th-16th century
Object Creation Date
15th century - 16th century
Accession Number
1978/2.127
Medium and Support
bronze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Plum Blossoms and Bird
Artist
Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)
Physical Description
A black crow is seated on a plum branch above calligraphic text and cascades of open blossoms.
Artist Life Dates
(1864 - 1957)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1930
Accession Number
1949/1.192
Medium and Support
ink on paper
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Covered funerary jar in the shape of a lotus bud, with molded and incised design
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
11th century
Object Creation Date
10th century
Accession Number
1961/2.87A&B
Medium and Support
Stoneware with celadon glaze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Vishnu and Attendant Figures with Flame Arch
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
Object Creation Date
14th century - 16th century
Accession Number
1978/2.79
Medium and Support
bronze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
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Title
Box with Double-Dragon Design
Artist
Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description
Lacquered wooden box with inlaid mother-of-pearl in double-dragon design. The heads of each dragon stretch diagonally inward from opposite corners of the box, with wide eyes and open mouths. Their bodies curve in and out of the top plane of the box, creating an opposing effect with symmetrical balance. The dragons reach forward towards a flaming orb in the center of the box, called a cintamani, or Buddhist wish-granting jewel. Among the dragons are swirling cloud designs made of inlaid nacre and copper wire.
Century
18th-19th century
Object Creation Date
late 18th century - early 19th century
Accession Number
2007/2.8
Medium and Support
lacquered wood with mother-of-pearl, tortoise shell, and copper wire inlays
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Sancai ware standing figure of a Central Asian groom
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
7th-11th century
Object Creation Date
618-907
Accession Number
1972/2.67
Medium and Support
earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
"Tiger pot" (urinal)
Artist
Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description
It is a urinal earthware. There is a everted mouth on the round body. It is unglazed.
Century
7th-10th century
Object Creation Date
668-935
Accession Number
1984/2.8
Medium and Support
stoneware, unglazed
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Rock crystal snuff bottle with landscape scene
Artist
Zhou Luoyuan (Chou Lo-yüan)
Artist Life Dates
act. 1885-1910
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1895-1910
Accession Number
1980/2.149
Medium and Support
rock crystal and ivory
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Chinese New Year's Poster
Artist
Artist Unknown
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1940s
Accession Number
1983/1.382
Medium and Support
color woodblock print on paper
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Still Life with Asparagus and Lemon
Artist
Hamaguchi Yôzô
Artist Life Dates
(1909 - 2000)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1957
Accession Number
1958/1.132
Medium and Support
mezzotint on paper
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Saga brocade obi with woven designs of poetry-inscribed fans
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Light mauve silk with appliqued Saga brocade patches of gold fans with calligraphic poetry on them. The calligraphy has been brushed on paper with gold flecks (sunago). which is the weft of the Saga brocade; brown silk thread is the warp. Partially backed with a different silk, a taupe with deliberately knotted weft; reamainder backed with plain-weave taupe silk.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1940s-1950s
Accession Number
2005/1.335
Medium and Support
silk with appliquéd Saga brocade patches
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Mirror
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date
960-1279
Accession Number
1974/1.226
Medium and Support
bronze
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Book case
Artist
Artist Unknown, Iran
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1865-1866
Accession Number
1984/2.1
Medium and Support
leather with gold tooling
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Title
Jade ornamental snuff bottle
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1912-1949
Accession Number
1980/2.17
Medium and Support
jadeite
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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
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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Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
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