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Title: To Benjamin B.
Artist: Howard Ben Tré
Physical Description: Three large, rectangular blocks of translucent green glass hang in vertical succession on a newtwork of copper rods. The glass has bubbles embedded within it and shows evidence of the sandcasting process.
Artist Life Dates: born 1949
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1980
Accession Number: 1997/1.116
Medium and Support: cast glass and copper
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Title: Mantel clock with a priestess and Cupid offering a sacriffice to Venus
Artist: Joseph Buzot
Physical Description: The dial of this elaborately decorated clock stands upon a two-tiered base. The lower tier consists of a hollow base made of ebony and adorned with a frieze of gilded bronze scrollwork and palmette motifs. The upper tier, made entirely of gilded bronze, features six fluted pilasters with a decorative panel centered on the front below the dial. This panel is composed of a pair of doves touching beaks before a crossed quiver of arrows and a flaming torch framed by leaves. A woman in long flowing robes stands to the right of the dial and empties a small cup onto a dove held by a winged putto who lies on a rocky projection. Behind the dove burns a fire on a small altar inscribed "Altar of Venus" [Autel à Venus].
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1780
Accession Number: 2001/2.82
Medium and Support: gilded bronze, ebony, porcelain, and glass
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Title: Four seated Buddhas, in dhyana mudra
Artist: Artist Unknown, Cambodia (Khmer)
Physical Description: A molded and incised relief sculpture of four seated Buddhas, on a dais with floral rosette motifs.
Century: 12th century
Object Creation Date: 12th century
Accession Number: 2000/2.152
Medium and Support: bronze
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Title: Polycandelon for six oil lamps
Artist: Artist Unknown, Coptic, Egypt
Physical Description: This bronze light fixture consists of a central circular celestial motif from which extend twelve arms in a radial pattern. Six of these arms, embellished with maltese crosses, end in omega-shaped terminals. These decorated arms alternate with six unadorned arms that terminate in rings designed to hold glass oil lamps. The entire disk is suspended from three bronze chains joined to a large hook.
Century: 6th century
Object Creation Date: 500-599
Accession Number: 1965/2.54
Medium and Support: bronze
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Title: The Deposition of Christ
Artist: Guglielmo della Porta
Physical Description: A small crowd of figures gathers around the body of a dead man and a fainting woman in the center of this bronze panel. The dead man's body and the two men holding his burial shroud appear in the foreground, while the fainting woman and the three women and the man who support her are positioned immediately above and behind them. Another woman with loose, flowing hair leans forward to kiss the left hand of the dead man, uniting the two parts of this central group. Four other male figures, rendered in slightly smaller scale and lower relief, look on from the sides. Three crosses provide the backdrop to the drama. The central cross is empty, yet two twisting nude males are suspended from the crosses on either side.
Artist Life Dates: 1515-1577
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1564
Accession Number: 1962/2.20
Medium and Support: bronze relief
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Title: The Triumph of Plenty
Artist: Artist Unknown, Germany or Belgium
Physical Description: This bronze plaque features a pair of oxen pulling a four-wheeled wagon with six passengers. The seated driver holds a rod in his right hand and a two-tined fork in his left. An older figure holding a flaming vessel stands behind him, followed by a seated figure wearing classical drapery and a laurel wreath. The next figure, seated in the middle of the cart, is an older female, nude to the waist, who holds a cornucopia full of fruit and raises her left hand to point skyward. Two smaller standing figures appear next, one holding a bowl of fruit. The final figure is a reclining female nude holding a flower in the crook of her right arm.
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1600
Accession Number: 1960/2.5
Medium and Support: bronze
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Title: The Triumph of the Four Elements
Artist: Artist Unknown, Germany
Physical Description: Two horses pull a wagon carrying four female passengers in this small bronze plaque. The driver, a seated nude male with a cap takes the reins in his left hand and raises a whip in his right. Behind him sit two pairs of taller female figures, each wearing a long flowing mantle.
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1600
Accession Number: 1969/2.37
Medium and Support: bronze
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Title: Standing Figure
Artist: Alberto Giacometti
Physical Description: An elongated figure with minimal features stands on a small rectangular base with left foot slightly forward. The metal has a texture resembling molten wax.
Artist Life Dates: 1901 - 1966
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1957
Accession Number: 1958/1.137
Medium and Support: bronze
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Title: Kadampa Stupa
Artist: Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal
Physical Description: A miniature stupa, cast of bronze in several parts, consisting of a bell-shaped base; an inverted cone-shaped tower, capped by an "umbrella" with pendant, fringe-like decoration, inlaid with semi-percious stone, surmounted by a lotus bud. Atop the whole structure is a half-moon and sun disk motif, supported by intertwined ribbons and culminating in another lotus bud.
Century: 13th century
Object Creation Date: 13th century
Accession Number: 2003/1.386
Medium and Support: bronze with inlaid turquoise and coral
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