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Daksha Mask; Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India

Title: Daksha Mask
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.84
Medium and Support: bronze
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

'1/2 Tael' ingot; Artist Unknown, China

Title: '1/2 Tael' ingot
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1985/2.81
Medium and Support: silver
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

'Coelogyne Dayana var. Grandifola,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'; Ikeda Zuigetsu

Title: 'Coelogyne Dayana var. Grandifola,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'
Artist: Ikeda Zuigetsu
Physical Description: Single plant with mulitple flowers (red, cream and yellow). Flowers located left and center in the frame with leaves concentrated on the right.
Artist Life Dates: 1877-1944
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1958
Accession Number: 1983/1.371.75
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

'Cymbidium Dotterel var. Oyamazaki,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'; Ikeda Zuigetsu

Title: 'Cymbidium Dotterel var. Oyamazaki,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'
Artist: Ikeda Zuigetsu
Physical Description: Slightly above center is an arch of four orange and red blooms. Behind the blossoms are leaves which also make a slight curve from lower center to upper right. The background is a light yellow/orange which gradients to white in the lower third.
Artist Life Dates: 1877-1944
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1958
Accession Number: 1983/1.371.70
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

'Cypripedium Goliath,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'; Ikeda Zuigetsu

Title: 'Cypripedium Goliath,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'
Artist: Ikeda Zuigetsu
Physical Description: Yellow and white flower on a grey background. The bloom is in the upper right hand with a bud situated behind it. The base of the stem and the leaves are located on the bottom portion of the image.
Artist Life Dates: 1877-1944
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1958
Accession Number: 1983/1.371.40
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

'Dendrobium Devonianum,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'; Ikeda Zuigetsu

Title: 'Dendrobium Devonianum,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'
Artist: Ikeda Zuigetsu
Physical Description: Single plant with multiple flowers (purple, white and yellow). Flowers are slightly right of center with leaves and bulb located to left (lower).
Artist Life Dates: 1877-1944
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1958
Accession Number: 1983/1.371.67
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

'Dendrobium Victoria Reginae,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'; Ikeda Zuigetsu

Title: 'Dendrobium Victoria Reginae,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'
Artist: Ikeda Zuigetsu
Physical Description: In the center are several small purple and white orchids. To the left of them is a stem covered with leaves. Also visible near the bottom of the image are the roots of the plant.
Artist Life Dates: 1877-1944
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1958
Accession Number: 1983/1.371.61
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

'Ghost-face' Coin; Artist Unknown, China

Title: 'Ghost-face' Coin
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1985/2.80
Medium and Support: bronze
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

'Miltonia Sanderiana var. Oyamazaki,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'; Ikeda Zuigetsu

Title: 'Miltonia Sanderiana var. Oyamazaki,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'
Artist: Ikeda Zuigetsu
Physical Description: Horizontal image with white and pink accented blooms located on the upper right half of the image. Central, left is a row of unblossomed buds.
Artist Life Dates: 1877-1944
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1958
Accession Number: 1983/1.371.68
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

'Vanda Kimbariana,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'; Ikeda Zuigetsu

Title: 'Vanda Kimbariana,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'
Artist: Ikeda Zuigetsu
Physical Description: Single plant with multiple flowers (white and pink). Flowers concentrated on the left side of the image with leaves on the right.
Artist Life Dates: 1877-1944
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1958
Accession Number: 1983/1.371.63
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

"Bhagavata Purana" series: Krishna and Balarama Studying with the Brahman Sandipani; Artist Unknown, India, Uttar Pradesh, Chaurapancasika Style

Title: "Bhagavata Purana" series: Krishna and Balarama Studying with the Brahman Sandipani
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Uttar Pradesh, Chaurapancasika Style
Physical Description: Krishna, in blue, and Balarama are portrayed in identical poses and wearing peacock-feather headdresses. The paunchy bearded figure at right is their mentor, Sandipani. Two other, older students appear at left. They are seated, approximately equidistantly spaced, in an architectural structure that organizes the space.
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 1525-1550
Accession Number: 1983/2.104
Medium and Support: ink and opaque watercolor on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

"Hôki" (Treasure Tortoise): Seto ware tea caddy, Taikai type, with ivory lid; Artist Unknown, Japan

Title: "Hôki" (Treasure Tortoise): Seto ware tea caddy, Taikai type, with ivory lid
Artist: Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description: This squat tea caddy has brown and black glaze, two small ornamental handles, and an ivory lid.
Century: 17th century?
Object Creation Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1955/1.151A&B
Medium and Support: stoneware with brown and black glaze, ivory lid
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

"Ido" chawan or shallow bowl; Artist Unknown, Korea

Title: "Ido" chawan or shallow bowl
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Object Creation Date: 15th century - 16th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.272
Medium and Support: stoneware coated with white slip
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

"Longevity" spirit money from Taiwan; Artist Unknown Taiwan

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Title: "Longevity" spirit money from Taiwan
Artist: Artist Unknown Taiwan
Physical Description: Print with floral design framing an inner square that contains six characters in the top and lower right, center, and left corners and a large character in the middle (“longevity”) with an image of two coins suspended from the wings of a stylized bat in the lower center. Swath of oranga paint and imitation gold foil in the middle.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2008/1.171
Medium and Support: orange paint, imitation gold foil, and red ink on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

"Longevity" Spirit Money, from Taiwan (2 prints); Artist Unknown Taiwan

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Title: "Longevity" Spirit Money, from Taiwan (2 prints)
Artist: Artist Unknown Taiwan
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2006/2.41.2B
Medium and Support: red ink on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

"Longevity" Spirit Money, from Taiwan (2 prints); Artist Unknown Taiwan

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Title: "Longevity" Spirit Money, from Taiwan (2 prints)
Artist: Artist Unknown Taiwan
Physical Description: Print with floral design framing an inner square that contains six characters in the top and lower right, center, and left corners and a large character in the middle (“longevity”) with an image of two coins suspended from the wings of a stylized bat in the lower center.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2006/2.41.2A
Medium and Support: red ink on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

"Snow": calligraphy scroll; Muan Xingtao (aka (J. Ôbaku Mokuan))

Title: "Snow": calligraphy scroll
Artist: Muan Xingtao (aka (J. Ôbaku Mokuan))
Physical Description: The large character for snow in block script is juxtaposed with lines of smaller characters in running script. The large character is drawn with unhurried, thick, even strokes in dense, unbroken black ink with blunt contours, while the smaller characters are brushed rapidly, with strokes of varying thickness, a pronounced diagonal tilt, and sharp edges.
Artist Life Dates: 1611-1684
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1655-1675
Accession Number: 1986/1.205
Medium and Support: ink on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

"The Sound of Rustling Leaves" (Chinese poem, calligraphy); Rai San'yô

Title: "The Sound of Rustling Leaves" (Chinese poem, calligraphy)
Artist: Rai San'yô
Physical Description: This is a hanging scroll. It is mounted on olive green fabric and includes a poem in Chinese calligraphic text about nature. Has three red seals: two in the lower left side, one in the upper right corner.
Artist Life Dates: 1780-1832
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1811-1832
Accession Number: 2002/1.164
Medium and Support: ink on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

"Tiger pot" (urinal); Artist Unknown, Korea

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
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

36 Views of Mt. Fuji: The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura); Katsushika Hokusai

Title: 36 Views of Mt. Fuji: The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura)
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai
Physical Description: A great, claw-shaped wave which almost swampes the boats dominates the scene, . The Mount Fuji appears in the distance and seems much smaller compared to the waves. In the upper left-hand corner, the artist inscribed the title of the work along with his signature.
Artist Life Dates: 1760-1849
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1829-1833
Accession Number: 1948/1.149
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia

4-armed deity on an animal mount; Artist Unknown, India

Title: 4-armed deity on an animal mount
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1979/2.30
Medium and Support: bronze
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

5 lingas on a Lion; Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title: 5 lingas on a Lion
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century: 17th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century - 18th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.95
Medium and Support: bronze
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

A celebration of the rains; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School

Title: A celebration of the rains
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School
Physical Description: Fresh greens for the foliage and dark blue clouds sprinkled with lightning set the rain celebration scene. Court ladies have gathered on the lawn, and some swing under a blossoming tree, while the raja and a woman watch the exciement below from a balcony of his white palace.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: early 19th century
Accession Number: 1964/2.114
Medium and Support: Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

A Courtesan and a Porter Carrying food, Sheet 2 from the series of "The Main Street of the Yoshiwara in Cherry Blossom Time" (A five-sheet series); Utagawa Toyokuni I

Title: A Courtesan and a Porter Carrying food, Sheet 2 from the series of "The Main Street of the Yoshiwara in Cherry Blossom Time" (A five-sheet series)
Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I
Physical Description: A color print depicting groups of women in kimono and men gathered under blossoming trees. The woman to the far right wears a dark kimono with an undistiguishable pattern. The next woman to her left wears a dark kimono with white dots. To her left is a woman wearing a kimono of multiple layers and single colors. She is surrounded by two girls with matching kimono. The final woman to the far left wears similarly colored material, though not as many layers. The man is wearing an outfit of geometric squares.; A group of one woman and two men is depicted in the back to the left while another group is entering the scene behind them. In gront of the large group are two men talking. Two men appear to be looking outside the screens of the building, and to the right of them is a group of three women and one man talking.
Artist Life Dates: 1769 - 1825
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 18th century - early 19th century
Accession Number: 1948/1.176
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia

A Courtesan followed by Two kamuro and Another Courtesan Behind, Sheet 5 from the series of "The Main Street of the Yoshiwara in Cherry Blossom Time" (a five sheet series); Utagawa Toyokuni I

Title: A Courtesan followed by Two kamuro and Another Courtesan Behind, Sheet 5 from the series of "The Main Street of the Yoshiwara in Cherry Blossom Time" (a five sheet series)
Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I
Physical Description: An image of women walking down the street. The woman at the forefront is trailed by two young girls and another woman. They wear similarly pattererned kimono with geometric designs and orange and green coloration. To the right of them are two women talking to two men, one crouched behind the other, under cherry blossom trees. The women appear to wear kimono of orange color and patterened with leaves. The first man wears a black striped kimono and a sword hilt can be seen strapped to his waist while the man behind him wears grey. In the background is a building and a group of men walking about. In the center of the background, inside the building, a woman can be seen.
Artist Life Dates: 1769 - 1825
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 18th century - early 19th century
Accession Number: 1948/1.179
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia

A Courtesan Seated on a Veranda Playing a Shamisen; Ômori Yoshikiyo

Title: A Courtesan Seated on a Veranda Playing a Shamisen
Artist: Ômori Yoshikiyo
Artist Life Dates: (active 1701 - 1716)
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1701-1716
Accession Number: 1960/1.140
Medium and Support: hand-colored woodblock print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

A family of Bhil hunters; Artist Unknown, India, Delhi, Mughal or Deccani

Title: A family of Bhil hunters
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Delhi, Mughal or Deccani
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1964/2.117
Medium and Support: ink, watercolor wash, and gold on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

A Girdle of Cloth; Ôbaku Kôsen

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Title: A Girdle of Cloth
Artist: Ôbaku Kôsen
Artist Life Dates: 1633-1695
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 1678-1692
Accession Number: 2006/2.23
Medium and Support: ink on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

A Han Dynasty Envoy Navigating on a Tree-Raft; Yu Zhiding (Yü Chih-ting)

Title: A Han Dynasty Envoy Navigating on a Tree-Raft
Artist: Yu Zhiding (Yü Chih-ting)
Physical Description: This is a dense but muted landscape painting. The lines are very well defined. The colors consit of muted greens and browns, with a bid of red in some places. There is a river flowing through the center of the painting, running down the landscape and toward the viewer. There is a figure sitting on a gnarled tree-raft towards the bottom left of the painting, with another figure looking upon the scene from the opposite bank of the river. There are ornate buildings present toward the top of the panting. The viewer can see a lone figure in an interior covered by stylized clouds.
Artist Life Dates: 1647 - circa 1705
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 1696
Accession Number: 1985/2.30
Medium and Support: hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

A Plant; Zhu Da (Chu Ta)

Title: A Plant
Artist: Zhu Da (Chu Ta)
Physical Description: A plant is shown against the blank background, with a long stem, some leaves on the top, and a apricot-like fruit at the bottom. Above the plant are some calligraphic texts, with the artist's signature and seal.
Artist Life Dates: 1626-1705
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1645-1705
Accession Number: 1958/2.57
Medium and Support: ink on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

A Solitary Fisherman at Kajikasawa, Kai Province (Kajikasawa, Kai); Katsushika Hokusai

Title: A Solitary Fisherman at Kajikasawa, Kai Province (Kajikasawa, Kai)
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai
Physical Description: The print depicts a fisherman standing on a seaside cliff perfoming loneline fishing. There are great waves below him striking the cliff and there is a mountain in the background. The print mainly applies the color of white and shades of blue. The artist inscribed the title of the work along with his signature on the upper left-hand corner.
Artist Life Dates: 1760 - 1849
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1823-1829
Accession Number: 1948/1.150
Medium and Support: woodblock print on paper, ôban yoko-e size
Creation Place 1: Asia

A Votive plaque depicting a Bodhisattva in Amitabha's (Chinese. Amitofou's) Western Paradise, giving rebirth to new souls from lotus buds; Artist Unknown, China

Title: A Votive plaque depicting a Bodhisattva in Amitabha's (Chinese. Amitofou's) Western Paradise, giving rebirth to new souls from lotus buds
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: 1964/2.17
Medium and Support: terracotta, molded
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

A votive plaque depicting an image of the Buddha, housed within a small temple; Artist Unknown, China

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
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

A Votive plaque depicting the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha (Ch. Dizang), in Amitabha's Western Paradise; Artist Unknown, China

Title: A Votive plaque depicting the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha (Ch. Dizang), in Amitabha's Western Paradise
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: 1964/2.19
Medium and Support: terracotta, molded
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

A Votive plaque depicting the Buddha Amitâbha (Chinese, Amitofou) preaching in his Western Paradise; Artist Unknown, China

Title: A Votive plaque depicting the Buddha Amitâbha (Chinese, Amitofou) preaching in his Western Paradise
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: 1964/2.18
Medium and Support: terracotta, molded
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

A Votive plaque depicting the Buddha seated in dhyana mudra, and flanked by two stupas; Artist Unknown, China

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
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

A wandering Shaivite ascetic with his dog; Artist Unknown, India, Delhi-Agra, Mughal

Title: A wandering Shaivite ascetic with his dog
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Delhi-Agra, Mughal
Physical Description: This work is a double-sided page from a bound album. The painting, depicting a Hindu ascetic walking with his dog in a pastoral landscape, has been placed in a border, decorated with a floral scroll painted in gold on a blue or pale orange ground; a similar border surrounds a calligraphy panel on the reverse side. The border and the calligraphy panel are both somewhat later in date than the painting itself.; The painting of the ascetic and his dog is pasted onto an album page. It is surrounded by a series of gold floral borders alternating blue and saffron-colored backgrounds. Wearing a brown poncho-like garment and carrying a fan in his right hand and a bag of his belongings, the lead attached to his white dog, and some tools in his left, he strides through the landscape. He wears sandals and has long brown matted locks of hair and a graying beard. The landscape consists of intersecting rounded forms in shades of green and yellow, surmounted by trees along the top and with a larger blue-foliaged tree to the right near the horizon. At the bottom a diagonal of yellowish rise of land with clumps of grass suggests some depth and a foreground, but the figure is quite flat in the middle ground.; On the back of the page is a Panel of calligraphy consisting of a quatrain in Shah Jahan's handwriting signed "Sultân Khurram [his given name before he took the name Shah Jahan upon becoming emperor" and dated 1020/1611-12. This is also surrounded by elaborate borders.
Century: 16th-17th century
Object Creation Date: late 16th century - early 17th century
Accession Number: 1969/2.175
Medium and Support: opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Abstract Circles; Fukui Ryonosuke

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Title: Abstract Circles
Artist: Fukui Ryonosuke
Physical Description: This print consists of nuetral, muted colors and abstract designs primarily of dots and circles. The print is designed to look as if thin cracks run through the image, and a lady bug is almost imperceptible near the bottom left of the image. The bottom edge of the print has a dark strip running across it.
Artist Life Dates: 1924-1986
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: mid 20th century
Accession Number: 2010/2.33
Medium and Support: color print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Actor Kataoka Ichizô I as Sumo Wrestler Onigatake; Utagawa Hirosada (aka Sadahiro I)

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Title: Actor Kataoka Ichizô I as Sumo Wrestler Onigatake
Artist: Utagawa Hirosada (aka Sadahiro I)
Artist Life Dates: c. 1826-1865
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1848
Accession Number: 2006/2.69
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)

Adoration of Shri Nathji; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School

Title: Adoration of Shri Nathji
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School
Physical Description: The richly dressed sculpture in the central niche is Shri Nathaji, an alternative name for Krishna, and the principal deity of the Vallabha Sampraday sect, to which the Kotah ruling family belonged. A priest is shown performing the lamp-waving ceremony before Shri Nathaji. At right is a small costumed sculpture of Krishna playing the flute.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1830
Accession Number: 2003/2.9
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)