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- Title
- Beaker with mottled green drip glaze
- Artist
- Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
- Physical Description
- A finely potted deep stoneware beaker with a rounded bottom and a mottled, dark green glaze. The attractive glaze effect is achieved by applying small dots of a wax over the entire surface of the vessel, and then pouring the glaze from the top down. Unglazed ring interior is the result from a clay ring to separate one pot from another in firing.
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1991/1.96
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with a mottled, dripped green glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.58628
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
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- Title
- Small bowl
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- Small porcelain bowl with thick vessel walls, somewhat coarse exterior, and bluish glaze.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.308
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with bluish glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.58628
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- Title
- Large Ovoid Jar
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- Large porcelain jar with course ovoid body, cylindrical foot, flared mouth and colorless glaze.
- Century
- Late 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.288
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with colorless glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.58628
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- containers
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- Title
- Buncheong bowl with incised and stamped patterns inlaid with white slip
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- It has a relatively wide mouth for its height and slightly surving sides. The glaze was degraded. It was incised with arabesque design and inlaid with white slip.
- Century
- 15th-16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 15th century - 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1969/1.99
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with white slip
- relevance
- rank 8.58628
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- ceramics
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- Title
- Black Pottery Tripod Jar
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Li tripod beaker, with a cylindrical body flares out at the rim, and expands organically in its lower half to rest on three udder-shaped legs. It appears to have been dipped into black slip and burnished to produce a smooth, shiny surface.
- Object Creation Date
- 2200 BCE - 1600 BCE
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.22
- Medium and Support
- grey earthenware
- relevance
- rank 8.58628
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- ceramics
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- Title
- Buncheong ware bowl with brushed 'hakame' design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- It has a flared mouth. The side is tapering gently down to the base. It was brushed with white slip interior and outerior sides.
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.76
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with brushed white slip under celadon glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.58628
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
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- Title
- Satsuma Urn
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- A bronze colored porcelain urn. Includes images on each side.
- Century
- Late 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2011/1.76
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with polychrome decoration
- relevance
- rank 8.58628
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- stoneware
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- Title
- Bowl with carved lotus pattern
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- It has a wall gently curving from the mouth toward the bottom before angeling in sharply close to the foot. There is a lotus petal on exterior. The color is brown.
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.78
- Medium and Support
- Stoneware with olive brown crackled celadon glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.58628
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
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- Title
- Cinerary Urn or Reliquary with stamped "fish scale" designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- This stoneware vessel consists of a bowl and lid. The curved hemispheric lid has a ring-shaped knob in the center and is decorated a lot of dot line design. The hemispheric bowl stands on the low foot with a flat base. This part is also decorated with stamped design.
- Century
- late 7th-8th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 7th century - 8th century
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.204A&B
- Medium and Support
- stoneware
- relevance
- rank 8.58628
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- Title
- Shallow footed bowl
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- It has a slightly outward flared rim and lightly curved sides. It doesn't seem to be Korean ceramics judging from the shape and glaze.
- Century
- 19th century?
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century (?)
- Accession Number
- 1972/1.154
- Medium and Support
- Stoneware with celadon glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.58628
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- Title
- Bowl
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- It flares out widely at the rim, then back in. Its sides, otherwise almost straight, taper to the base. There is no decorated.
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.84
- Medium and Support
- Stoneware with celadon glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.58628
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
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- Title
- Five-linked jar
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- High-footed ceramic pot with one large central hu-shaped pot and four smaller hu-shaped pouts that encircle it. The upper and lower body of the main pot is decorated with bands of incised “bowstrings” decoration.
- Century
- 1st-3rd century
- Object Creation Date
- 1st century - 3rd century
- Accession Number
- 1993/1.99
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with ash glaze on shoulder
- relevance
- rank 8.51788
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
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- Title
- Tea Bowl with Incised Line
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- Stoneware tea bowl with celadon glaze and line incised horizontally below the rim.
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.216
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with celadon glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.51788
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- Title
- Bottle with Stamped Flower and Bead Designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- Stoneware bottle with a squat body, cylindrical neck, flared rim and natural ash glaze. A band stretches along the base of the neck demarcated by two outside lines, and a stamped row of stylized flowers centered in between them. Below the band the body of the bottle dramatically begins to curve outward. Along the body are a series of vertical comb-punched radiating lines.
- Century
- 7th-8th century
- Object Creation Date
- 7th century - 8th century
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.194
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with traces of natural ash glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.51788
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
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- Title
- Vase
- Artist
- Kôyama Kiyoko
- Physical Description
- The exterior of this three-sided triangular based vase is decorated with lines that curve together from one edge of the vase to the next. The ash glaze creates a greenish brown color, which pools and creates darker tones in some areas. The edges are not straight, but rough and bumpy.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1936
- Object Creation Date
- circa 2000
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.211
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with natural ash glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.51788
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
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- Title
- Wide-mouthed storage jar with bands of incised decor and ring handles
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Wide-mouthed stoneware jar with bands of incised rib-pattern decoration and two ring handles and light coating of olive glaze.
- Century
- 6th-4th century BCE
- Object Creation Date
- 6th century BCE - 4th century BCE
- Accession Number
- 1993/1.93
- Medium and Support
- Stoneware with carved and stamped decoration under olive green glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.51788
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- Title
- Round-Bottomed Jar
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- Jar with a round base, short neck and flaring mouth. Fabric imprints and gently indented lines stretch across the round body of the jar.
- Century
- 3rd-4th century
- Object Creation Date
- 3rd century - 4th century
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.163
- Medium and Support
- unglazed earthenware with impressed decoration
- relevance
- rank 8.51788
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- containers
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- Title
- Large Bowl (raibachi)
- Artist
- Okuda Eizan
- Physical Description
- Large bowl with wide and asymmetrical rim and natural ash glaze. The bowl appears to be orange on the outside, and multi-colored on the inside.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1944
- Object Creation Date
- 2005
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.209
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with natural ash glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.51788
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- Title
- Incense Container in the Shape of a Raccoon Dog
- Artist
- Kôyama Kiyoko
- Physical Description
- Incense containter in the shape of a raccoon dog (tanuki). The animal is sitting upright, and the opening of the container is horizontal along a split at its belly button. The incense container is colored white, grayish blue, and reddish orange, with the last color mostly on the stomach of the figure.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1936
- Object Creation Date
- circa 2000
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.217
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with natural ash glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.51788
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by function or context
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- object genres
- object genres by material
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- pottery (object genre)
- Title
- Tea Bowl
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- Stoneware tea bowl with celadon glaze.
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.217
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with celadon glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.51788
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
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- object genres
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- Title
- Large Jar
- Artist
- Kôyama Kiyoko
- Physical Description
- This large jar is ovular in shape, with four lines carved across its horizontal axis periodically. The jar shape turns inward from the third line from the bottom. where the fourth line serves as the base of the neck of the jar opening. The natural ash glaze is not applied evenly, but looks as ip it dripped down the sides of the jar in some areas.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1936
- Object Creation Date
- circa 2000
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.212
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with natural ash glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.51788
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by form
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- object genres
- object genres by material
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- Title
- Ball spoon with vegetal ornament
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Norway
- Physical Description
- This silver ball spoon consists of a round bowl joined to a stem composed of a flattened section and a twist stem that terminates in an ornamental ball knop. An incised six-petal flower surrounded by bands of geometric ornament decorates the interior of the bowl. The flattened section of the stem is adorned with vegetal ornament.
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1620-1640
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.45
- Medium and Support
- gilded silver
- relevance
- rank 8.50022
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- design elements
- motifs
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- object genres by function
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- people and culture
- physical activities
- physical activities by general context
- plant-derived motifs
- Title
- Textile Fragment
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.94
- Medium and Support
- Raffia and velour
- relevance
- rank 8.49034
- Secondary Keywords
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- coverings and hangings components
- descriptors
- furnishings components
- object genres
- object genres by form
- object genres by material
- quilt components
- Title
- Protective Amulet
- Artist
- Artist Unknown Taiwan
- Physical Description
- Plaque in the form of a snarling lion's face holding a double-edged "severn star" (here only three of the seven stars are depicted as large dots connected by lines) sword in its mouth and ornamented with a red octagon containing the characters for "daqi" surrounded by eight trigrams on its forehead.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2006/2.44
- Medium and Support
- polychrome on wood
- relevance
- rank 8.49034
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- descriptors
- edged weapons
- legendary creatures
- mammals
- object genres
- object genres by form
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- weapons
- weapons and ammunition
- Title
- Covered Pedestal Bowl
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- It has a little Flaring base with spherical food storage bowl on top. There are no holes in the base. The lid is attached with a knob-handle shaped like a button. There is no design on the lid but stained some part.
- Object Creation Date
- 7th century - 8th century
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.203A&B
- Medium and Support
- stoneware
- relevance
- rank 8.42043
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
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- object genres
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- Title
- Globular ewer with short spout, flaring lip, and double-dragon handle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Globular-shaped ewer with spout and handle covered inside and out with a luminous dark brown glaze decorated on the shoulder with splashes of milky pale blue tone and stopping in an irregular line above the neatly finished flat foot to expose the granular ware.
- Century
- 8th-9th century
- Object Creation Date
- 8th century - 9th century
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.70
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with light buff body, dark brown glaze with bluish suffusions
- relevance
- rank 8.42043
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
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- pottery (object genre)
- Title
- Art pottery inkwell, "ATC," blue mottled, pen holder
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- A pottery inkwell of dark blue color has a rectangluar shape body. There are two lid covering the inkwell and there are two pen holder.
- Object Creation Date
- 1875-1975
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.305
- Medium and Support
- ceramic
- relevance
- rank 8.39702
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for writing equipment
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
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- pottery (object genre)
- Title
- Sencha pitcher with stamped dragonfly design (pair w/ 1954/1.512)
- Artist
- Seifû Yohei III
- Artist Life Dates
- 1854-1914
- Century
- Late 19th-early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1893-1914
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.503
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with clear glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.34970
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- food
- materials
- materials by function
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- object genres by material
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- pottery (object genre)
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- vessels
- Title
- Beaker with incised leaf scroll pattern
- Artist
- Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
- Physical Description
- A finely potted stoneware beaker with a rounded bottom and a lightly incised, freely drawn leaf scroll spreading across the widest part of the body, flanked by incised double horizontal lines, all covered evenly with an yellow green glaze. Four spur markes inside.
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1991/1.95
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with yellow green glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.34493
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- design elements
- motifs
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- scrolls (motifs)
- vessels
- Title
- Blue-and-white square incense burner
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1844
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.47
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with blue underglaze painting
- relevance
- rank 8.34493
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by function or context
- descriptors
- legendary creatures
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- stoneware
- Title
- Pedestal Bowl with Cover
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- Flaring base with spherical food storage bowl on top. The base is cut with evenly spaced rectangular holes. The lid is incised with a repeating design.
- Century
- 6th century
- Object Creation Date
- 6th century
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.189A&B
- Medium and Support
- unglazed stoneware with incised and stamped decoration
- relevance
- rank 8.33564
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by form
- containers by function or context
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
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- pottery (object genre)
- Title
- Small Bowl
- Artist
- Anonymous American
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.121
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with olive green glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.32364
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- modern and contemporary art
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- vessels
- Title
- Small Bowl
- Artist
- Anonymous American
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.116
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with brown black glaze with oil spots
- relevance
- rank 8.32364
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- modern and contemporary art
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- vessels
- Title
- Small Bowl
- Artist
- Anonymous American
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.115
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with brown glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.32364
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- modern and contemporary art
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects
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- pottery (object genre)
- vessels
- Title
- Jar with abstract dragon design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- Round porcelain jar with iron pigment under colorless glaze. An abstract dragon spirals around and up the body of the piece, marked by quick brushstrokes indicating scales and unrestrained swirls indicating features such as its head and feet. A slight valley in the contour of the jar marks where two separately thrown pieces were joined together.
- The foot is rather small for the size of the body.
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1961/2.88
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with iron pigment under colorless glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.32364
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- legendary creatures
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- stoneware
- vessels
- Title
- Mizusashi (cold water jar for the tea ceremony)
- Artist
- Seifû Yohei III
- Artist Life Dates
- 1854-1914
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1893-1914
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.515A&B
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with celadon glaze and inlaid white slip design
- relevance
- rank 8.28895
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- containers
- descriptors
- inorganic material
- materials
- materials by composition
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- stoneware
- Title
- Shallow Dish
- Artist
- Anonymous Hispano-Mooresque
- Physical Description
- This shallow dish features a recessed center with a slightly convex boss and a wide rim. The boss is encircled by a band of degenerate Gothic script. The rim is painted with zigzags, and the empty areas of the pattern are filled with dots and floral motifs.
- Century
- 16th-17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.119
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with luster
- relevance
- rank 8.27527
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by function
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- Title
- Cinerary Urn or Reliquary with stamped circle designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- This stoneware vessel consists of a bowl and lid. The curved hemispheric lid has a ring-shaped knob in the center and is decorated with stamped design irregularly. The high and hemispheric bowl stands on the low foot with a flat base. This part is also decorated with densely and evenly stamped design.
- Century
- 8th-early 9th century
- Object Creation Date
- 8th century - early 9th century
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.205A&B
- Medium and Support
- stoneware
- relevance
- rank 8.24373
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- ceremonial containers
- containers
- containers by form
- containers by function or context
- descriptors
- liturgical containers
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- vessels
- Title
- Small wine bottle with painted design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- Stoneware bottle with partial white slip extending up from an incised band near the widest stretch of the body upwards to the lip. Another band is incised just above the former, creating a two-band pattern that is repeated again at the neck. Between these pairs of bands is an abstract design painted in iron-oxide, creating a brown hue against the white slip. The mouth of the bottle is also coated in this reddish-brown hue. The base of the piece is left its natural gray-brown color.
- Century
- 15th-16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 15th century - 16th century
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.267
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with iron oxide painting over white slip under colorless glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.23786
- Secondary Keywords
- bottles
- bottles by function
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- vessels
- Title
- Cinerary urn with circle-and-dot design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- Stoneware jar with natural ash glaze and rounded lid. Along the widest horizontal stretch is an incised circle-and-dot design. A design of concentric circles also loops around just as the rounded curve of the lid begins to flatten into a plateau on which a cintamani style knob rests.
- Century
- 7th century
- Object Creation Date
- 7th century
- Accession Number
- 1973/2.35A&B
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with stamped decoration
- relevance
- rank 8.23786
- Secondary Keywords
- ceremonial containers
- containers
- containers by function or context
- descriptors
- liturgical containers
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- Title
- Cinerary urn with concentric circles design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- Stoneware jar with natural ash glaze, squat body and lid. Along the widest horizontal stretch is a design of incised concentric circles, with another row above consisting of circles comprised of a pattern of impressions marking the edge of each circle. The convex curve of the lid also contains a row of incised concentric circles, before sloping into a concave valley, and rising up again to a small plateau. It is on this landing that a cintamani style knob rests.
- Century
- 7th-8th century
- Object Creation Date
- 7th century - 8th century
- Accession Number
- 1973/2.34A&B
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with stamped design and natural ash glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.23786
- Secondary Keywords
- ceremonial containers
- containers
- containers by function or context
- descriptors
- liturgical containers
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- Title
- Jar
- Artist
- Kôyama Kiyoko
- Physical Description
- This cylindircal jar has a circular lid with a small handle. The natural ash glaze creates a mix of green, black, gray, and reddish hues.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1936
- Object Creation Date
- circa 2000
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.214
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with natural ash glaze
- relevance
- rank 8.16651
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- descriptors
- inorganic material
- materials
- materials by composition
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- Title
- Friction Oracle (Itombwa)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Physical Description
- Carved wood figure of a quadraped, probably a dog. The figure's back is concave and smooth from use. The figure's back was rubbed with a stick, dowel, or cloth to create friction. A small bell or gong hangs from the figure's neck. Details of the face (nose, mouth eyes) are carved in.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.358
- Medium and Support
- carved wood, metal, glass beads and cowrie shell
- relevance
- rank 8.10520
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by function
- people and occupations
- religious figures
- the natural world
- Title
- Waiter, Isle of Capr, from "Artifacts"
- Artist
- Ralph Gibson
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1939
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1983
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.95.7
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.10520
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- modern and contemporary art
- object genres
- object genres by material
- people and occupations
- portfolios
- Title
- Blue-and-white covered jar, Kangxi era, with floral design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1662-1722
- Accession Number
- 1982/1.209A&B
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with blue underglaze painting
- relevance
- rank 8.08508
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- closures
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- container components
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- stoneware
- vessels
- Title
- Center Piece
- Artist
- Tiffany & Company
- Physical Description
- Silver dish-shaped piece with very large flared lip covered with opulent repoussé decoration
- Artist Life Dates
- established 1837
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1910
- Accession Number
- 1977/1.155
- Medium and Support
- silver
- relevance
- rank 8.08035
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- modern and contemporary art
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- vessels
- Title
- Trafalgar Square Greeenwich
- Artist
- James Tissot
- Artist Life Dates
- 1836-1902
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1878
- Accession Number
- 1973/1.788
- Medium and Support
- etching on thin, laid paper
- relevance
- rank 8.08035
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects
- the natural world
- waterscapes
- Title
- Textile skirt panel
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1940
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.43
- Medium and Support
- woven and appliqued raffia and natural dye
- relevance
- rank 8.08035
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- design elements
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- ornament areas
- Title
- Power figure (nkisi kozo)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Republic of the Congo, Kongo
- Physical Description
- Carved wooden figure of a crocodile. A carved wooden bell is attached to the figures neck. The face (eyes, nose, and mouth) are detailed.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.352
- Medium and Support
- carved wood, cord and traces of pigment
- relevance
- rank 8.08035
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- healing
- object genres
- object genres by function
- people and occupations
- the natural world
- Title
- Jade cong cylinder with low relief design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- jade cylinder with square shaped exterior and round interior, shallow relief carver on each side, possible representing zoomorphic designs that have been worn off. Dark jade material with many striations and mottles. Come in custom-designed silk box enclosed in a fine hardwood box. The inscription on wooden box indicates that the object was once part of the Duan Fang collection in late 19th century. Duan Fang was a Manchu stateman and reknowned antiquarian. His inscription date the object to the Zhou period. Recent archaeological work suggests that the object was probably made in the late 3rd millennium B.C.E. and remained in circulation by Shang period of the late 2nd millennium B.C.E.
- Century
- 13th-11th century BCE
- Object Creation Date
- 1300 BCE - 1100 BCE
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.102
- Medium and Support
- dark green nephrite with white streaks
- relevance
- rank 8.08035
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- events
- object genres
- object genres by cultural or intellectual valuation
- people and culture