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- Title
- Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, with left hand in abhaya mudra
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Small gilt bronze seated Buddha in style of China’s cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty. It has a full figure, artfully draped robes, and a plump, rounded face with arched eyebrows. Hand is raised in abhaya mudra.
- Century
- 8th century
- Object Creation Date
- 700-799
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.91
- Medium and Support
- gilt bronze
- relevance
- rank 1.18553
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
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- Title
- After Manet, from May Days Long Forgotten
- Artist
- Carrie Mae Weems
- Physical Description
- Black and white photograph in circular format depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass.
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1953
- Century
- 21st century
- Object Creation Date
- 2002
- Accession Number
- 2004/2.3
- Medium and Support
- chromogenic color print on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.18482
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
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- historical, theoretical and critical concepts
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- modern american styles and periods
- modern north american styles and movements
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- the americas
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- Title
- Bust of George Washington (1732-1799), after Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)
- Artist
- Randolph Rogers
- Physical Description
- This is a white marble sculpture that depicts the upper torso of a man. There is drapery wrapped loosely around his figure. He is shown staring into the viewer's space and his facial expression is calm and reserved. This sculpture is carved in a realistic manner and rests on a columnar pedestal.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1825 - 1892
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1868
- Accession Number
- 1895.12
- Medium and Support
- marble
- relevance
- rank 1.18482
- Secondary Keywords
- administrators
- costume
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- executives
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- inorganic material
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- rock
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- wearing blankets
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- Title
- Buddha or Maitreya, seated in cross-legged pose, on dias with incised incense burner and figures of two donors
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- Late 6th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 6th century
- Accession Number
- 1961/2.75
- Medium and Support
- gilt bronze
- relevance
- rank 1.18428
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
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- Title
- Minor White, Arlington, MA
- Artist
- David Vestal
- Physical Description
- A man with white hair and glasses sorting through a pile of papers on a desk.
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1924
- Object Creation Date
- April 1970; printed 1998
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.182
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.18428
- Secondary Keywords
- artists
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- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- Title
- Portait of Ansel Adams, Yosemite
- Artist
- Bill Wright
- Physical Description
- Ansel Adams seated in a chair, graphic curtains behind. His hand is to his head and he is wearing glasses.
- Object Creation Date
- 1981
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.192
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.18428
- Secondary Keywords
- artists
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- photography and photographic processes and techniques
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- Title
- Taiwan Cross-Island Highway (Section 2)
- Artist
- Chang Ku-nien
- Physical Description
- A panoramic view of the highway cutting across the Tarako Gorges, laid out in four connecting hanging scrolls.
- Inscription: “sublime and bright--what opens in this enormous curtain (the connected hanging scrolls).”
- Artist Life Dates
- (Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1967
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.104.2
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.18423
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- buildings and the land
- coating (material)
- coating by form
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
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- natural landscapes
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by function
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- settlements and landscapes
- transportation spaces
- writing (processes)
- Title
- La Plaine de Harlem (after a painting by Philip Koninck)
- Artist
- Gustave Greux
- Artist Life Dates
- 1838-1919
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1877?
- Accession Number
- 1973/1.766
- Medium and Support
- etching and drypoint on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.18423
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
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- earth sciences concepts
- landforms
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- landscapes (environments)
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- ornament areas
- people and culture
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- scientific concepts
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- vegetation components
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- woody plants
- Title
- Boys Head
- Artist
- Isabel Bishop
- Physical Description
- This brown ink sketch is of a boy gazing to his right with his mouth and eyes slightly open. He wears a pointed hat that covers his forehead.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1902-1988
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1934
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.477
- Medium and Support
- ink
- relevance
- rank 1.18379
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- intaglio printing processes
- objects we use
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- printing and printing processes and techniques
- printing processes
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- Title
- Pieced quilt in variable star pattern with saw-tooth border
- Artist
- Anonymous American
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1840s
- Accession Number
- 1982/2.59
- Medium and Support
- cotton
- relevance
- rank 1.18356
- Secondary Keywords
- bed coverings
- bedcovers
- coverings and hangings
- coverings and hangings by location or context
- coverings and hangings by specific type
- coverings and hangings for furniture
- coverings and hangings for sleeping and reclining furnitur
- descriptors
- design elements
- fiber
- fiber and fiber products
- furnishings
- furnishings by form or function
- materials
- materials by form
- materials by physical form
- motifs
- natural element motifs
- natural fiber
- objects we use
- ornament areas
- plant fiber
- Title
- Old Man and The Green Mountain (Ch'ing-shan lao-fu)
- Artist
- Shitao (Shih-t'ao)
- Physical Description
- An ink painting of a mountainscape with hills and abstract paths. Trees are depicted in darker shades, though most do not hold any detail. The image is in the lower half of the hanging scroll, and the upper half is covered with text. The image is entirely grey-scale.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1642-1707
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1671-1707
- Accession Number
- 1959/2.82
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.18319
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- inorganic material
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- materials
- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
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- plants
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- writing (processes)
- Title
- Ivory snuff spatula
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1850-1925
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.158
- Medium and Support
- ivory and teakwood
- relevance
- rank 1.18303
- Secondary Keywords
- bone
- bone by form
- combination inorganic/organic animal material
- combination inorganic/organic material
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- dentin
- descriptors
- equipment
- equipment by general type
- materials
- materials by composition
- objects we use
- tools
- tools and equipment
- tooth and tooth components
- tooth components
- Title
- From Line to Point to No Point
- Artist
- Richard Tuttle
- Physical Description
- Pencil drawing of one continuous line tracing the movement of the artist’s hand. Image is centered and small relative to the sheet. Starts with a diagonal line drawn right to left, and down at an angle.
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1941
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1973
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.261
- Medium and Support
- graphite on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.18303
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- drawings
- drawings by technique
- image-making processes and techniques
- international post-1945 styles and movements
- objects we use
- people and culture
- post-1945 fine arts styles and movements
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Bowl, oblong with two handles
- Artist
- Anonymous American
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1830-1880
- Accession Number
- 1967/2.15
- Medium and Support
- birch and walnut
- relevance
- rank 1.18232
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects
- objects we use
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by material
- processes and techniques by specific type
- vessels
- woodworking and woodworking processes and techniques
- Title
- Cross-Island Highway Based on Sketches
- Artist
- Chang Ku-nien
- Physical Description
- Painted and inscribed on the occasion of Veterans’ Day. The artist depicts a view of the narrow, winding roadway cutting through a magnificent rocky mountain.
- In his inscription, Chang claims to use methods of Song masters that were adopted in painting the scene. A small detail on the lower right of the painting represents a couple of tiny figures standing aside the road. One figure is depicted as making life-sketches of the scene.
- Artist Life Dates
- (Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1980
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.111
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.18172
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- buildings and the land
- coating (material)
- coating by form
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by function
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- paintings
- paintings by form
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- scroll paintings
- settlements and landscapes
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- writing (processes)
- Title
- Golden Section Painting #6
- Artist
- Dorothea Rockburne
- Physical Description
- folded kraft paper marked with blue pencil affixed to linen
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1932
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1975
- Accession Number
- 1977/1.160
- Medium and Support
- kraft paper and blue pencil on linen
- relevance
- rank 1.18157
- Secondary Keywords
- visual arts
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- forms of expression
- genres
- image-making processes and techniques
- international post-1945 styles and movements
- modern and contemporary art
- paperworking techniques
- people and culture
- post-1945 fine arts styles and movements
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by material
- processes and techniques by specific type
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- Title
- Magpies and Hibiscus
- Artist
- Yamamoto Baiitsu
- Physical Description
- Two magpies rest among hibiscus flowers. “Boneless” washes for the hibiscus flowers are contrasted with ink outlines of bamboo.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1783-1856
- Century
- early to mid-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1831
- Accession Number
- 1986/1.165
- Medium and Support
- Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.18118
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- grass (plant material)
- herbaceous plants
- inorganic material
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by composition
- materials by origin
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- paintings
- paintings by form
- plant material
- plants
- scroll paintings
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- woody plants
- 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 1.18113
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- materials
- materials by origin
- objects we use
- plant material
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by material
- processes and techniques by specific type
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- vessels for serving drinks
- wood and wood products
- Title
- Celestial Musician (Japanese, Hiten; Sanskrit, Apsara)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- The figure is kneeling musician on lotus seat, made of separately carved petals. Below the seat, there is a base, which consists of two lotus-shaped half-sphere, connected up-side-down. The head has two buns, elongated ears, simplified facial parts; the figure wears a pink robe with wide sleeves, holding a sort of instrument with hands.
- Century
- 7th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 670-700
- Accession Number
- 1999/2.14
- Medium and Support
- polychromed camphor wood on lacquered wood base
- relevance
- rank 1.18113
- Secondary Keywords
- arts
- arts and related disciplines
- associated concepts
- descriptors
- design elements
- disciplines
- humanities
- motifs
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people by state or condition
- people in the arts
- people in the arts and related occupations
- people in the humanities
- people in the performing arts
- performing arts
- plant-derived motifs
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- Title
- Six-armed Bodhisattva Mañjusri, standing, with two celestial attendants
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- Mañjusri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, standing with two celestial attendants. This representation of Manjushri includes six arms, one of which holds a sword, while a narrow book (modeled after books made from palm leaves) lays across his upper hand. Manjushri is wearing an ornamented crown and necklace, and is encircled by a halo of flames.
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.109
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 1.18097
- Secondary Keywords
- asian
- associated concepts
- buddhist doctrinal concepts
- descriptors
- design elements
- doctrinal concepts
- edged weapons
- motifs
- natural element motifs
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- plant-derived motifs
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- religious concepts
- south asian
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- weapons
- weapons and ammunition
- Title
- Scene from the Life of the Buddha: Conception (architectural fragment)
- Artist
- Gandhara (ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
- Physical Description
- A curved stone, originally a facing on the drum of a small stupa, carved with a narrative scene.
- Century
- 2nd-3rd century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd century - 3rd century
- Accession Number
- 1997/2.37
- Medium and Support
- stone
- relevance
- rank 1.18097
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- events
- mammals
- object genres
- object genres by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- personal life events
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- religious structures
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- Title
- Iceberg #11, Disko Bay, Greenland, 1988
- Artist
- Lynn Davis
- Physical Description
- Two icebergs in Disko Bay, Greenland composed of two portions of an iceberg on either side with rather still water in the foreground. The ice on the left is a shape reminicent of a wave while the iceberg on the right, behind the first, is tall and looming, almost invisible in the fog.
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born 1944
- Object Creation Date
- 1988; printed 1988-1989
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.96
- Medium and Support
- selenium-toned gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.18031
- Secondary Keywords
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by state
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- geographic and political locations
- image-making processes and techniques
- inorganic material
- lancaster (county)
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
- north and central america (continent)
- pennsylvania (state)
- photographic processes
- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- settlements and landscapes
- united states (nation)
- Title
- Trees in Fall - France
- Artist
- Ilse Bing
- Physical Description
- A tree-lined field with trees losing their leaves scattered throughout.
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born Germany, 1899/1900-1998
- Object Creation Date
- 1935
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.39
- Medium and Support
- vintage gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.18010
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- design elements
- earth sciences concepts
- image-making processes and techniques
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- ornament areas
- people and culture
- photographic processes
- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- physical sciences concepts
- plants
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- scientific concepts
- seasons
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- Title
- Happy Couple
- Artist
- Mike Disfarmer
- Physical Description
- A seated couple seen from the waist up. He wears a short sleeve collared shirt and leans to his left, towards the woman. His left arm is around her back. She is to the viewer's right and wears a short sleeve button up shirt. Her arms are bent at the elbows and held in front of her.
- Artist Life Dates
- American, 1884 - 1959
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1940
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.26
- Medium and Support
- vintage gelatin silver contact print on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.17975
- Secondary Keywords
- components and systems
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- object groupings
- object groupings and systems
- object groupings by general context
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- photographic processes
- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- sets (groups)
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Vachere au Bord de l'Eau
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro
- Physical Description
- A woman sits at the left on a grassy bank looking at a group of cows standing in water. Behind are trees and a hill rising up in the distance.
- Possible watermark at center left (of verso); image shows a fleur de lis over a triangle. Paper size: lh 26 2/5cm & rh 26 1/2cm x w 19 1/2cm. Plate size: lh 19 7/10cm & rh 19 9/10cm x w 13 2/5cm. Image size: lh 19 1/10cm & rh 19cm x tw 12 2/5cm & bw 12 1/2cm.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1830-1903
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.401
- Medium and Support
- etching and drypoint printed in brown/black ink on light blue laid paper
- relevance
- rank 1.17958
- Secondary Keywords
- transfer method
- animals and creatures
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- intaglio prints
- mammals
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- printing
- printing and printing processes and techniques
- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- settlements and landscapes
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Rubbing of Journey of the Soul to the Paradise of the Queen Mother of the West (2000/2.1) - Front
- Artist
- Bo Yang
- Physical Description
- Rubbing of limestone slab carved bas-relief with six registers. The lower register depicts a chariot procession above fish-inhabited waters. The central three registers depict figures carrying out funerary rites. The top register shows a winged creature with a human face flanked by two writhing dragons and other animals, including two rabbits and a nine-tailed fox.
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1961
- Century
- 21st century
- Object Creation Date
- 2008
- Accession Number
- 2008/1.154.1
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.17913
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- freewheeled vehicles
- freewheeled vehicles by form or function
- inorganic material
- land vehicles
- land vehicles by form
- legendary creatures
- mammals
- materials
- materials by composition
- objects we use
- paintings
- paintings by location or context
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- scientific concepts
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Wulai Falls Based on Sketches
- Artist
- Chang Ku-nien
- Physical Description
- The Wulai Waterfalls are shown in a “Y” shape configuration, and painted in simple light ink washes. On a hill-path on the center right several tourists are represented as riding some kind of rickshaw.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1906-1987
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1981
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.121
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.17884
- Secondary Keywords
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- buildings and the land
- coating (material)
- coating by form
- components of bodies of water
- descriptors
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by physical form
- information forms
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by function
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- settlements and landscapes
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- 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 1.17854
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- drinking vessels
- food
- materials
- materials by function
- objects
- objects we use
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- Title
- Panel of Bizarre Silk
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, France
- Physical Description
- This brilliant coral-colored silk features an elaborate brocaded pattern consisting of exuberant sprays of flowers in yellow, blue, white, and gold thread joined to bunches of fruit and other ornament woven with silver thread. The ground is enlivened by a damask pattern of more schematic vegetal and geometric ornament that echoes these dominant motifs.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1700-1715
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.237
- Medium and Support
- silk, silver and gold threads
- relevance
- rank 1.17834
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- fiber and fiber products
- fiber products
- materials
- materials by form
- materials by physical form
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- textile materials
- textile materials by composition or origin
- textile materials by process or technique
- textile materials by weaving technique
- Title
- I-Hising Teapot with Lid (Yixing)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Stoneware teapot with round handle, smooth body, lid, and short spout. The lid contains two ridges and a small rounded knob at top center. Below the lid on the body is also a concentric ridge.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.206
- Medium and Support
- stoneware
- relevance
- rank 1.17825
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- food
- materials
- materials by function
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- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- vessels for serving drinks
- Title
- Kharanah Castle, Qasr-Al Kharahah, Jordan (Palace #15)
- Artist
- Lynn Davis
- Physical Description
- The outer walls of Karanah Castle in Jordan. The desert ground makes up the entire foreground with the horizon line almost reaching the half-point of the photograph. Just below the horizon is the base of the structure. The castle itself is a rectangular brick wall with three rounded pillars built into it, two at the corners and one in the center. The sky above it is clear and cloudless.
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born 1944
- Object Creation Date
- 1995-1996
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.98
- Medium and Support
- selenium-toned gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.17795
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- fortifications
- geographic and political locations
- image-making processes and techniques
- israel (nation)
- landscapes (environments)
- middle east (general region)
- natural landscapes
- photographic processes
- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- Title
- Hôeidô Tôkaidô Series: Yoshida, Toyokawa Bridge
- Artist
- Andô Hiroshige
- Physical Description
- Several workers are building a castle by the waterscape. Across the water is a bridge that leads to a village in the distance.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1797-1858
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1833-1834
- Accession Number
- 1948/1.129
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.17783
- Secondary Keywords
- transfer method
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- inorganic material
- materials
- materials by composition
- objects we use
- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
- relief prints
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- transportation structures
- transportation structures by form
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Jeannette Wearing a Bonnet
- Artist
- Mary Cassatt
- Artist Life Dates
- 1845-1926
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.423
- Medium and Support
- drypoint on cream laid paper
- relevance
- rank 1.17774
- Secondary Keywords
- accessories worn on the head
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories worn
- descriptors
- engraving (printing process)
- hats
- headgear
- image-making processes and techniques
- intaglio printing processes
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- printing and printing processes and techniques
- printing processes
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- Title
- Relax
- Artist
- Buky Schwartz
- Physical Description
- A vertical line of pills from the top of the canvas to the bottom. Stamped with information on the lower right indicating date, title, type of pills and signature.
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1932
- Object Creation Date
- 1971-1972
- Accession Number
- 2012/1.222
- Medium and Support
- pills and paint on canvas
- relevance
- rank 1.17774
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- disciplines
- european
- european styles and periods
- health sciences
- image-making processes and techniques
- modern european fine arts styles and movements
- modern european styles and movements
- people and culture
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- science
- science and related disciplines
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.44
- Medium and Support
- wood with beads
- relevance
- rank 1.17774
- Secondary Keywords
- african
- african styles by region
- beads and sets of beads
- beadwork
- descriptors
- equipment
- equipment by context
- equipment for personal use
- object genres
- object genres by form
- object genres by material
- objects
- objects we use
- people and culture
- southern nigerian styles
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- tools and equipment
- west african styles
- Title
- Kubera, god of wealth, seated in lalitasana on double lotus dais
- Artist
- Nepal
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.156
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 1.17760
- Secondary Keywords
- asian
- associated concepts
- attributes and properties
- attributes and properties by specific type
- descriptors
- design elements
- form attributes
- motifs
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- plant-derived motifs
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- size (extent)
- size by specific type
- south asian
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- Title
- Formal gray crested kimono with shibori and embroidered shifuku (tea caddy pouch) designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Gray silk damask woven in an arare pattern, with partial hon hitta shibori designs and shifuku (tea caddy pouch) design embroidered with silk and metallic thread
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1970-1979
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.374
- Medium and Support
- gray twill silk with shibori and embroidery with silk and metallic thread
- relevance
- rank 1.17755
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for storing or transporting food
- costume
- costume by form
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- main garments
- needleworking
- needleworking and needleworking techniques
- objects we use
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by material
- processes and techniques by specific type
- resist dyeing
- textile dyeing processes and techniques
- textile finishing processes and techniques
- textile processes and techniques
- textile working processes and techniques
- Title
- Berlin is Taken, May 1945
- Artist
- Dmitri Baltermants
- Physical Description
- Taken Berlin. In the foreground is a cannon while in the back hollowed-out buildings burn.
- Artist Life Dates
- Russian, 1912-1990
- Object Creation Date
- 2003
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.80
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.17688
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- europe (continent)
- firearms
- geographic and political locations
- germany (nation)
- objects we use
- photographic prints
- photographic prints by process
- photographs
- photographs by form
- physicochemical processes
- positives
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- projectile weapons
- projectile weapons with explosive propellant
- small arms
- small arms by form
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- weapons
- weapons and ammunition
- Title
- Buddha, standing, in vitarka mudra
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- A small, solid gilt bronze image of the Budddha, shown standing in a slighly swayback pose with both right and left hands in vitarka mudra, the gesture ot teaching. His robe is draped over both shoulders and falls in large, symmentrical V-shaped folds in shallow relief over his torso. His head is small, with the canonical snail-shell curls suggested by tiny knobs of bronze. He has full cheeks, a well-defined mouth, and incised slits for his eyes. There are two incised rings at his neck (instead of the canonical three). He stands on a pedestal of upward, double-petal lotus petals, raised on a hollow base. Some turquoise patina is visible on tthe base and head.
- Century
- 7th century
- Object Creation Date
- 7th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.97
- Medium and Support
- gilt bronze
- relevance
- rank 1.17597
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- attributes and properties
- attributes and properties by specific type
- descriptors
- design elements
- educating
- educational functions
- figures (representations)
- form attributes
- functions
- functions (activities)
- functions by specific context
- motifs
- objects we use
- people and culture
- plant-derived motifs
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- size (extent)
- size by specific type
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- Title
- Plate with white plum blossom design
- Artist
- Arakawa Toyozô
- Physical Description
- It is a round, stoneware plate. Clay is red covered with mottled grayish glaze and painted with underglaze iron and white slip. Imperfection of clay was resulted in occasional bumps on surface. Six spur marks are visible on the bottom. Slab is roughly cut (deliberately); the plate is in slightly convex shape. Artist’s seal with underglaze iron appears on the bottom.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1894 - 1985
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.64
- Medium and Support
- Stoneware with iron and white slip painting
- relevance
- rank 1.17597
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- deciduous trees
- descriptors
- dishes
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- trees
- trees by leaf life
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- woody plants
- Title
- Late Autumn Landscape
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- The entire top portion of this painting is seemingly blank, but represents the air and atmosphere. Below are mountains hugged by clouds and trees and vegetation in the phase of autumn.
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1966/2.1
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.17581
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- image-making processes and techniques
- objects we use
- painting and painting techniques
- painting techniques
- painting techniques by medium
- paintings
- paintings by form
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- scientific concepts
- scroll paintings
- seasons
- settlements and landscapes
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- (Landscape)
- Artist
- Ernest Albinson
- Artist Life Dates
- 1898-1971
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1898-1940
- Accession Number
- 1940.134
- Medium and Support
- linocut on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.17536
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- geography
- inorganic material
- materials
- materials by composition
- modern and contemporary art
- objects we use
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- the natural world
- transportation structures
- transportation structures by form
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- waterscapes
- Title
- Small White Square (Wedding Dress)
- Artist
- Julia Jacquette
- Physical Description
- This is a square shaped print in tones of white, beige and brown. It shows a lacy floral pattern with white dots that resemble pearls.
- Artist Life Dates
- American, 1964
- Object Creation Date
- 2004
- Accession Number
- 2010/2.41
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on Rives BFK
- relevance
- rank 1.17536
- Secondary Keywords
- colors
- descriptors
- design elements
- patterns (design elements)
- patterns by specific type
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by material
- processes and techniques by specific type
- textile construction processes and techniques
- textile processes and techniques
- visual and tactile
- Title
- Bracelet
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ethiopia, Galla, Arusi Group
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.37
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 1.17535
- Secondary Keywords
- african
- african styles by region
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories worn
- descriptors
- east african
- eastern hamitic
- jewelry
- jewelry by location
- jewelry worn on arms and hands
- metalwork
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects of adornment
- objects we use
- people and culture
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- Title
- Bencharong Ware Jar (tho)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Covered ceramic jar with brilliantly colored Thai-inspired overglaze enamel painting in floral patterns. The lid mimics the spires of Thai Buddhist architecture, rising from the gentle curve of the lower portion of the lid and alternating between solid bands of green, and multicolored floral patterns. The green covers what would be the underside of each of the colorful three tiers of "roof" segments, culminating in what appears to be a red and gold lotus bud at the top of the lid.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.465A&B
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with overglaze enamel painting
- relevance
- rank 1.17511
- Secondary Keywords
- asian
- ceramics
- chinese
- chinese ceramics styles
- chinese styles
- chinese styles and periods
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- east asian
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- people and culture
- pottery (object genre)
- stoneware
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- vessels
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Bencharong Ware Jar (tho)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Covered ceramic jar with brilliantly colored overglaze enamel painting in repreating floral patterns. A small base curves into a deep, wide bowl with a flaring mouth, in which the lid rests. The lid can be turned upside down to provide a shallow bowl, the base of which (or topmost portion of the lid) is encircled by gold and green bands.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.476A&B
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with overglaze enamel painting
- relevance
- rank 1.17511
- Secondary Keywords
- asian
- ceramics
- chinese
- chinese ceramics styles
- chinese styles
- chinese styles and periods
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- east asian
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- people and culture
- pottery (object genre)
- stoneware
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- vessels
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Virgin of the Apocalypse
- Artist
- Gaetano Gandolfi
- Physical Description
- A woman dressed in a rose-colored robe with a blue mantle and flowing white veil stands on a silver crescent moon among a bank of dark clouds. A halo of stars encircles her head. She clasps both hands before her. The heads of two putti peak out from beneath her mantle next to her left hip. Her right foot treads upon a long serpent that curves back upon itself with an open mouth.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1728 - 1781)
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1770-1780
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.537
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas, mounted on board
- relevance
- rank 1.17508
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- descriptors
- design elements
- earth sciences concepts
- figure- and animal-derived motifs
- image-making processes and techniques
- motifs
- natural element motifs
- painting and painting techniques
- painting techniques
- painting techniques by medium
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- scientific concepts
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- Title
- Death of Chatterton, from "Pictures of Chocolate"
- Artist
- Vik Muniz
- Physical Description
- Photograph of a drawing executed using chocolate syrup on a piece of white plexi-glass.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1961
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2000
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.153
- Medium and Support
- Cibachrome mounted on aluminum on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.17508
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- european
- european styles and periods
- events
- historical, theoretical and critical concepts
- image-making processes and techniques
- modern european styles and movements
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- personal life events
- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- Title
- Plate with gourd and vine design (one of five with 1964/1.100 and 102-104)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Nabeshima ware, Japan
- Physical Description
- The circular, smaller white porcelain plate has a design of gourds, flowers, vines and leaves around the rim. The gourds are outlined with blue underglaze and colored with yellow overglaze. Blue underglaze and transparent green overglaze are used for the leaves. The flowers and vines are drawn with red. The red enamel is worn off from some of the tendrils, a characteristic of 18th century Nabeshima. The reverse side has four clustered jewel or treasure motifs with four bows and streamers repeated three times. On the shallow foot, bold lines are drawn in a row like a comb. The design on the back is all drawn with blue underglaze. (Referencce: Becker, Sister Johanna. “A Group of Nabeshima Porcelain.")
- Century
- Early 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/1.101
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with blue underglaze and enamel overglaze painting
- relevance
- rank 1.17508
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- design elements
- dishes
- herbaceous plants
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- patterns (design elements)
- patterns by specific type
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- woody plants
- Title
- Model of a round granary
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Object Creation Date
- late 3rd century BCE - 2nd century BCE
- Accession Number
- 1993/1.76
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with calcinated green lead glaze
- relevance
- rank 1.17495
- Secondary Keywords
- agricultural buildings
- agricultural structures
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- visual works
- visual works by function