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Title

Roses and Flowers in a Glass

Artist

Henri Fantin-Latour

Physical Description

This painting depicts a glass vase with roses, phlox, and other flowers standing on a table. One pink rose lies next to the vase on the table; the background is an undifferentiated background of brown/tan.

Artist Life Dates

1836-1904

Century

19th-20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1870-1890

Accession Number

1955/1.76

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 4.09061

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Title

Woman with Hat and Flowered Pin Inkwell, French porcelain

Artist

Artist Unknown

Physical Description

An inkwell made with porcelain has a trianglar shape body and hat-shape lid on top, there is a feather sticking on the hat-shape lid.

Object Creation Date

1875-1975

Accession Number

2010/1.285

Medium and Support

porcelain, feathers

relevance

rank 4.09036

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Title

Dragons

Artist

Robert W. Chatelain

Physical Description

wood and purple resin vase with gold leaf

Artist Life Dates

born 1945

Century

late 20th century

Object Creation Date

1997

Accession Number

2002/2.126

Medium and Support

black cherry burl, violet pigmented epxoy resin and gold inlay

relevance

rank 4.08786

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Title

Fragment of base of a seated Buddha, with incense burner, lion, and attendant

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

6th-7th century

Object Creation Date

circa 580 - 620

Accession Number

1964/2.24

Medium and Support

marble

relevance

rank 4.08771

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Large Leather Purse

Artist

Artist Unknown, African

Physical Description

A large leather purse shaped like an arrow. The purse is almost completely bordered with fringe and has green red, and orange decorative badges on it.

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

2010/2.3

Medium and Support

leather

relevance

rank 4.08737

Secondary Keywords

bags (costume accessories)

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Title

Deep bowl with vegetal and calligraphic designs

Artist

Iran, Nishapur

Century

10th century

Object Creation Date

10th century

Accession Number

1961/1.185

Medium and Support

fritware with painted designs in red, yellow, and dark brown

relevance

rank 4.08216

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Title

Razor Box

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1950

Accession Number

1984/2.29

Medium and Support

carved wood, brass, natural fiber, patination and red wood

relevance

rank 4.07662

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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

relevance

rank 4.06372

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Bowl with bird holding leaf and inscription

Artist

Iran, Kashan

Physical Description

A wide-mouth, narrow-base bowl with overglaze lustre decorations of a bird holding leaf. There are inscriptions as part of the decorations.

Century

12th-13th century

Object Creation Date

12th century - 13th century

Accession Number

1957/1.63

Medium and Support

fritware with overglaze lustre painting

relevance

rank 4.05381

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Pot

Artist

Artist Unknown, Acoma Pueblo, Native American

Physical Description

A squat, gracefully rounded pot with a mouth that is slightly smaller than the widest circumference of the pot, and a tapered base. The interior is colored white. There is a band of black along the brim. The exterior is decorated with a pattern of alternating squares: brownish-orange squares divided vertically by a white stripe broken by three thin black lines; and white squares divided diagonally with wave-like black shapes.

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1930

Accession Number

1984/2.20

Medium and Support

earthenware

relevance

rank 4.05381

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Still Life with Apples (Nature Morte aux Pommes)

Artist

Maurice de Vlaminck

Physical Description

A bowl containing apples rests in the center, flanked by two conical drinking cups.

Artist Life Dates

1876-1958

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1910

Accession Number

1984/1.288

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 4.05311

Secondary Keywords

containers

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drinking vessels

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Title

Inro (four-case medicine box) with design of maple leaves and chrysanthemums, ojime, and netsuke

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1997/2.17

Medium and Support

black and gold lacquer, glass ojime (bead)

relevance

rank 4.05294

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Title

Gladolia Bouquet

Artist

Robert Wilbert

Physical Description

A pencil drawing of a vase containing a bouquet of flowers. The flowers appear to be a mix of lillies and irises.

Artist Life Dates

born 1929

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1973

Accession Number

2010/2.54

Medium and Support

pencil on paper

relevance

rank 4.05242

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Shigaraki Ware Flower Vase

Artist

Takahashi Rakusai III

Physical Description

The vase uses Shigaraki clay and the wood-firing process. The deformities and imperfections are intentional, and in Iga style. It has a lopsided lip edge at the top, with a deep indentation circling the vase just below it. The texture of this piece is splotchy and ridged, and the colors are earth tones, ranging from tans to dark, forest greens.

Artist Life Dates

1898-1976

Century

Mid-20th century

Object Creation Date

1960-1963

Accession Number

1963/2.77

Medium and Support

stoneware with natural ash glaze

relevance

rank 4.05242

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Title

Lid for Bowl

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A dome-shaped cermaic lid for a bowl. Outfitted with a mushroom-shaped handle with a hole in the center. Carved details around the bowl are two circles, one smaller than the other, with a striped triangle pattern.

Object Creation Date

400-599

Accession Number

2009/2.76

Medium and Support

ceramic

relevance

rank 4.05085

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Lid for Bowl

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A ceramic lid for a matching bowl. Outfitted with a small, round and tapered handle.

Object Creation Date

400-599

Accession Number

2009/2.75B

Medium and Support

ceramic

relevance

rank 4.05085

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Lid for Bowl

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A round ceramic fitted lid for a bowl.

Object Creation Date

400-599

Accession Number

2009/2.73

Medium and Support

ceramic

relevance

rank 4.05085

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Iron Kettle

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A round and squat kettle made of iron. It has a tall, arching handle which is tapered at the ends of attachment and the handle on the cover is decorated with cut-outs.

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

2009/2.36

Medium and Support

iron

relevance

rank 4.04581

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Bowl

Artist

Fanny Nampeyo

Physical Description

A shallow stoneware bowl banded with a design in the traditional Southwest style. The bowl is tan embellished with patterns in shades of black and reddish brown.

Artist Life Dates

1900-1987

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1930

Accession Number

1984/2.11

Medium and Support

stoneware

relevance

rank 4.03671

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Ceramic Bowl

Artist

Legoria Tafoya

Physical Description

A deep bowl with a wide mouth made of black earthenware. The upper half of the bowl is decorated with a horizontal and diagonal design in a lighter shade of black and rougher texture than the smooth black surface.

Artist Life Dates

1911 - 1984

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1950

Accession Number

1984/2.17

Medium and Support

blackware

relevance

rank 4.03671

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Covered bowl on cut-out pedestal foot

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

The cover has a button-shaped knob at the top and is mostly plain. The mounted bowl has a outward-turned rim. This type of mounted bowl may be deated to sometime in the early 5th century.

Century

5th-6th century

Object Creation Date

5th century - 6th century

Accession Number

1969/1.98A&B

Medium and Support

Stoneware

relevance

rank 4.03402

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Title

Imari jardiniere with stylized floral designs

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

last quarter of 19th century

Accession Number

2002/2.3

Medium and Support

Porcelain, blue underglaze and enamel overglaze painting

relevance

rank 4.02839

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Title

Standing Buddha (or possibly Maitreya) in abhaya mudra, with flask in left hand

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

4th century

Object Creation Date

4th century

Accession Number

1964/1.91

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 4.01936

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Title

Pedestal Bowl with Cover

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Flared base with rounded food storage bowl on top. The base is cut with evenly spaced rectangular holes. The lid is incised with a repeating herringbone, or dotted design. The know on the lid is the shape of a Buddhist canopy, or chattra.

Century

5th century

Object Creation Date

5th century

Accession Number

2004/1.169A&B

Medium and Support

unglazed stoneware with stamped decoration

relevance

rank 4.01936

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Title

Changsha ware pitcher with short spout, appliqued figures, and bi-colored glaze

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Stoneware pitcher with handle and short polygonal spout, flaring mouth, wide neck, decorated with appliquéd decor of musicians and dancers, white slip, and splashed brown glaze

Century

9th century

Object Creation Date

9th century

Accession Number

1987/2.50

Medium and Support

stoneware with applique decor, white slip, transparent brown glaze

relevance

rank 4.01936

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Title

Incense Container in the Shape of a Flower

Artist

Kôyama Kiyoko

Physical Description

Flower shaped incesnse container consisting of two halves, which open horizontally, and fit together very precisely. Decorated with ash glaze, which gives the pottery a deep red color, deeper on the top and slightly lighter on rest of the container, with black as an accent color primarily on two sides of the container in a line going from the top of the piece to the bottom. The top of the container is very dramatically textured is a symetrical series of ridges which create the petals and shape of the flower.

Artist Life Dates

born 1936

Object Creation Date

circa 2000

Accession Number

2010/1.220

Medium and Support

stoneware with natural ash glaze

relevance

rank 4.01112

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Title

Incense Container in the Shape of a Flower

Artist

Kôyama Kiyoko

Physical Description

Flower shaped incense container consisting of two halves, which open horizontally. The top of the container has a subtle flower pattern that compliments the shape of the container and appears to have been stamped on the top. The color is a dark red on the very top of the container, with the color transitioning to a lighter reddish orange for the rest of the container.

Artist Life Dates

born 1936

Object Creation Date

circa 2000

Accession Number

2010/1.219

Medium and Support

stoneware with natural ash glaze

relevance

rank 4.01112

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Title

Blue-and-white bowl, Wanli Era (1573-1620), w. I Ching symbols & stylized clouds

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

16th-17th century

Object Creation Date

1573-1620

Accession Number

1971/2.112

Medium and Support

porcelain with blue underglaze painting

relevance

rank 4.00845

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Title

Blue-and-White Covered Jar with floral scroll design

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

18th century?

Object Creation Date

18th century (?)

Accession Number

2005/2.90A&B

Medium and Support

porcelain with blue underglaze painting

relevance

rank 3.99351

Secondary Keywords

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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

relevance

rank 3.97715

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Title

Vase

Artist

Kôyama Kiyoko

Physical Description

This rectangular vase is decorated in one corber with a wheel or foral design carved into the clay. The opening edges of the vase are not straight, but asymmetrical. The natural ash glaze decorates the vase with varyig shades of gray.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1936

Object Creation Date

circa 2000

Accession Number

2010/1.204

Medium and Support

stoneware with natural ash glaze

relevance

rank 3.97715

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Title

Shallow Buncheong ware bowl with rope curtain and chrysanthemum design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Shallow stoneware bowl with white slip and colorless glaze. The interior is decorated with a stamped rope-curtain pattern, incised bands of lines and a repeating stylized lotus petal pattern. In the center of the bowl lie three inlaid chrysanthemum florets. Three scars on the inside of the bowl indicate the piece was fired in a stack for large-scale production.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

15th century

Accession Number

2004/1.262

Medium and Support

stoneware with white inlaid stamped and brushed decoration under colorless glaze

relevance

rank 3.97715

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Title

Drawing of a jar

Artist

Hamada Shôji

Physical Description

Ink painting on paper of footed vase or jar with design. Calligraphic text is to the right of the image, most likely a signature.

Artist Life Dates

1894 - 1978

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1967

Accession Number

1980/2.222

Medium and Support

ink on paper, unmounted

relevance

rank 3.97596

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Title

Vase (one of a pair)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Cloisonne (metalwork with enamel decor) jar. This jar uses brightly colored red, blue, green, yellow, and pinkish-purple enamelsto decorate its registers with intricate floral and vegetal patterns. Mounted on a sturdy circular base, the body of the vase flares outward to its widest point, then curves inward more steeply toward the neck, from which a bowl-like mouth curves upwards.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.470.1

Medium and Support

Cloisonné (metalwork with enamel décor)

relevance

rank 3.96264

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Title

Vase (one of a pair)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Cloisonne (metalwork with enamel decor) jar. This jar uses brightly colored red, blue, green, yellow, and pinkish-purple enamelsto decorate its registers with intricate floral and vegetal patterns. Mounted on a sturdy circular base, the body of the vase flares outward to its widest point, then curves inward more steeply toward the neck, from which a bowl-like mouth curves upwards.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.470.2

Medium and Support

Cloisonné (metalwork with enamel décor)

relevance

rank 3.96264

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Title

Wooden Bowl

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Large oblong, rectangular wooden bowl with rounded ends.

Object Creation Date

1875-1925

Accession Number

2009/2.29

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 3.95974

Secondary Keywords

asian

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descriptors

east asian

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Title

Flower Basket

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

2006/2.35

Medium and Support

woven bamboo

relevance

rank 3.95846

Secondary Keywords

buildings and the land

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Title

Leaf from a Bible with Daniel in the lions' den aided by the prophet Habakuk

Artist

Artist Unknown, France

Physical Description

Two columns of Latin text fill this page taken from a bible manuscript. A painting in a gold rectangular frame is located in the lower right column. An angel descends from a blue semicircular disc in the upper right corner of the painting and grasps a larger figure by the hair with both hands. This second figure holds a jug in his left hand and a plate with bread in his right. A third figure, dressed in a white robe, reaches up toward this larger figure from an enclosure below. He appears against a black background and four gray animal heads overlap his torso.

Century

13th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1290

Accession Number

1993/2.10

Medium and Support

ink, tempera and gold on parchment

relevance

rank 3.94660

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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Title

Un Coin de la Rue Reynie

Artist

Eugène Atget

Artist Life Dates

1856-1927

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1856-1927

Accession Number

1971/2.140

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

relevance

rank 3.94356

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Incense Container in the Shape of a Plum Flower

Artist

Kôyama Kiyoko

Physical Description

Incense container in the shape of a plum blossom. The container consists of two halves opening horizontally, with the top of the container being very textured with a pattern of ridges. The container is bi-colored, with a whitish gray and reddish orange coloring.

Artist Life Dates

born 1936

Object Creation Date

circa 2000

Accession Number

2010/1.218

Medium and Support

stoneware with natural ash glaze

relevance

rank 3.93168

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Pot with Lid

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Ashanti

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1998/1.123B

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 3.92732

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Tall Ceremonial Stand for Jar

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Tall hourglass-shaped stand. Composed of three separate parts: two bowls and a connecting cylinder. The pieces are unified with appliquéd bands encircling the cylinder horizontally as well as evenly spaced cut-out shapes of rectangles and triangles leading up the stand vertically in lines.

Century

5th century

Object Creation Date

5th century

Accession Number

2004/1.178

Medium and Support

unglazed stoneware with cutout decoration

relevance

rank 3.91636

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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Title

Alexander Visiting Diogenes

Artist

Salvator Rosa

Physical Description

A standing man in a magnificent crested helmet addresses a bearded man in bedraggled clothes sitting on the ground before the mouth of a large barrel. The latter figure turns his head to respond and extends his right hand toward the other man. A group of soldiers crowd around.

Artist Life Dates

1615-1673

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1615-1673

Accession Number

1964/2.109

Medium and Support

etching and drypoint on laid paper

relevance

rank 3.90617

Secondary Keywords

containers

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Title

Blue-and-white jar with floral and leaf design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Hizen ware, Japan

Physical Description

A medium size, well potted jar with round shoulder and shorter neck. Inside is not totally glazed. On the body, pine, bamboo, and plum trees are finely painted with blue underglaze. Then a translucent glaze is applied, which turns into milky, white color. It has three floral decorations on the shoulder; the decoration is originated in functional elements of “ears” to which ropes were tied for transportation. The neck has a band of double lines and spray design of peony flowers and leaves. The rim of the neck is unglazed. The foot is unglazed; eye is glazed. Some imperfections of glaze are seen toward the bottom. Glaze is scraped off on one part. Many speckles on the surface.

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1615-1643

Accession Number

1964/1.99

Medium and Support

porcelain, blue underglaze painting

relevance

rank 3.89781

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Pot

Artist

Maria Martínez

Physical Description

A blackware bowl with black on black decoration. The bowl is nearly spherical in profile, with a narrow and wide mouth. Around the upper half is a feather design, which looks like individual feathers hanging down from the mouth forming a ring around the circumference.

Artist Life Dates

1887 - 1980

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1935

Accession Number

1991/1.88

Medium and Support

blackware

relevance

rank 3.89106

Secondary Keywords

ceramics

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descriptors

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Title

Textile Storage Box

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1983/2.169

Medium and Support

wood and rattan fiber

relevance

rank 3.88806

Secondary Keywords

containers

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descriptors

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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

relevance

rank 3.88798

Secondary Keywords

bottles

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descriptors

grass (plant material)

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Title

Barber's basin with birds and vegetal ornament

Artist

Artist Unknown, France

Physical Description

This oval-shaped ceramic vessel features a wide, steep rim surrounding a large well in the center. The scalloped edges of the rim are cut back into a deep semicircle on one side. The rim is painted in underglaze blue and yellow with plant and floral motifs that are arranged in a whimsical, asymmetrical fashion around the edge. The well is decorated with similar vegetal motifs and two vaguely stork-like birds with long legs that confront one another on a strip of turf.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1750

Accession Number

1969/2.39

Medium and Support

tin-glazed earthenware (faience) with yellow and blue underglaze

relevance

rank 3.88557

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Celadon Bowl

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Glossy finish gray colored bowl. Contains a ring near the rim on the inside and an indentation in the center.

Accession Number

2014/2.106

Medium and Support

ceramic with glaze

relevance

rank 3.88432

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Satsuma Ware Jar

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japanese

Physical Description

Medium-sized Satsuma ware jar. The body of the jar is brown while the upper portion around the mouth is a rich blue glaze.

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1650

Accession Number

2013/2.1

Medium and Support

ceramic

relevance

rank 3.88412

Secondary Keywords

asian

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vessels