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- Title
- Equestrian Statuette of Marcus Aurelius
- Artist
- Anonymous Italian
- Accession Number
- 1895.10
- Medium and Support
- bronze on marble base
- relevance
- rank 5.61135
- Secondary Keywords
- ancient italian periods
- ancient italian styles and periods
- animals
- animals and creatures
- early western world
- mammals
- mediterranean
- monarchs
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in government and administration
- rulers (people)
- sculpture by material
- sculpture by subject type
- statues
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- the natural world
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Shallow porcelain bowl with carved design of four baby quails
- Artist
- Katô Hajime
- Physical Description
- White porcelain bowl with carved inside and smooth outside. A ring is carved along the inside rim, and below are quails alternating with grasses.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1900 - 1968
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960-1963
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.67
- Medium and Support
- Porcelain, carved
- relevance
- rank 5.61065
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- stoneware
- vessels
- Title
- Wanli-era Blue-and-white bowl with bird and flower designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 16th-17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1573-1619
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.19
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with blue underglaze painting
- relevance
- rank 5.61065
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- stoneware
- vessels
- Title
- Markendeya purana series: Vishnu reclining on a serpent (Anantashayana), with other deities in attendance
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northern Andhra Pradesh
- Physical Description
- The four-armed Vishnu is shown lying on the serpent Ananta (“the endless one”), resting on the surface of the cosmic ocean. As his female consort gently strokes his leg, Vishnu awakens from a long sleep. From his navel sprouts a lotus, bearing the four-headed creator god, Brahma, who will begin a new cycle of the universe.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.305
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on cloth
- relevance
- rank 5.60874
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- animals and creatures
- descriptors
- geography
- hindu
- image-making processes and techniques
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by physical form
- information forms
- named gods and goddesses
- objects we use
- painting and painting techniques
- painting techniques
- painting techniques by medium
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- religion
- religions
- reptiles
- reptiles and amphibians
- subject matter
- the natural world
- Title
- The Labors of Hercules #13: Cacus
- Artist
- Heinrich Aldegrever
- Artist Life Dates
- 1502- circa 1561
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1550
- Accession Number
- 1956/1.63
- Medium and Support
- engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.60797
- Secondary Keywords
- allegory and literature
- animals
- animals and creatures
- buildings and the land
- clubs
- figures
- figures (representations)
- geography
- iconography
- landform components
- landforms and landform components
- landscapes (environments)
- mammals
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by gender
- physical activities
- physical activities by general context
- settlements and landscapes
- the natural world
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- Title
- Sabotage
- Artist
- Marian Spore Bush
- Physical Description
- Black, tan and white, industrial buldings with steam coming out of the smoke stacks. The steam is in the formation of a snake moving through the painting.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1878-1946
- Object Creation Date
- late 1930s
- Accession Number
- 2014/2.198
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 5.59764
- Secondary Keywords
- aegean
- aegean periods
- animals and creatures
- descriptors
- early western world
- greek
- mediterranean
- object genres
- people and culture
- reptiles
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- Title
- Crabs
- Artist
- Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)
- Physical Description
- The painting depicts two crabs with aquatic plants. The artist signed his pen name, Qi Huang, and sealed another pen name, Wood Hermit.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1864-1957
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1864-1949
- Accession Number
- 1949/1.199
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.58377
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- crustaceans
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- writing (processes)
- Title
- Prawn
- Artist
- Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)
- Physical Description
- Two shrimps are shown in the middle of the print. The artist inscribed "Baishi at the age of ninty-five" on the upper left-hand corner with seal.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1864 - 1957)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1948
- Accession Number
- 1990/1.185
- Medium and Support
- woodblock "water printing" with ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.58377
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- crustaceans
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- writing (processes)
- Title
- Shrimps
- Artist
- Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)
- Physical Description
- Blank background. The painting depicts four lobsters, with calligraphic texts and seal on the right edge of the painting.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1864 - 1957)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1931
- Accession Number
- 1949/1.200
- Medium and Support
- ink on rice paper
- relevance
- rank 5.58377
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- crustaceans
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- writing (processes)
- Title
- Duck-Shaped Vessel
- Artist
- Kim YikYung
- Physical Description
- This lidded vessel forms the shape of a duck, with a tail pointing from the rear and a head rising to face forward in the front. Qhite slip was applied with visible and long brish strokes, and iron oxide painting adds a rusty hue to match the lower, unglazed clay color.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1935
- Century
- 21st century
- Object Creation Date
- 2004
- Accession Number
- 2010/2.30
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with iron oxide painting over white slip under colorless glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.58377
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- birds
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- Title
- Sparrow on a Bamboo Branch
- Artist
- Kanô Gyokuraku
- Physical Description
- A plump sparrow is perching on a bamboo branch, which is bending from the main branch on the left side of the painting. The bamboo has young and mature leaves. The background is left as blank. The mounting is made of creamy silk brocade with blue green silk brocade strips. Brown brocade pieces are pasted on the top and the bottom of the mounting. There is a seal in red ink on the left corner. Wrinkles on the top and right lower side of the bid; some smaller worm holes and one large hole underneath the bird, but all repaired.
- Artist Life Dates
- active 1550 - 1590
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.54
- Medium and Support
- Hanging scroll: ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.57487
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- descriptors
- grass (plant material)
- materials
- materials by origin
- plant material
- Title
- Bacchanale
- Artist
- Louis-Felix de La Rue
- Physical Description
- Image of a crowd of men, a man on a donkey and centaurs.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1731-1765
- Accession Number
- 2015/1.386
- Medium and Support
- pencil on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.57487
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- philosophical concepts
- Title
- Anklet in the form of a stylized bird
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Burkina Faso, Lobi
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1986
- Accession Number
- 1986/1.196
- Medium and Support
- aluminum
- relevance
- rank 5.57437
- Secondary Keywords
- african
- african styles by region
- animals
- animals and creatures
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories worn
- gur-speaking peoples styles
- jewelry
- jewelry by location
- jewelry worn on legs and feet
- objects
- objects we use
- people and culture
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- the natural world
- west african styles
- western sudanese styles
- Title
- The Labors of Hercules: The River-god Achelous (one of the set of 13 prints)
- Artist
- Heinrich Aldegrever
- Artist Life Dates
- 1502- circa 1561
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1550
- Accession Number
- 1956/1.67
- Medium and Support
- engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.56626
- Secondary Keywords
- allegory and literature
- animals
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- cityscapes
- events
- figures
- figures (representations)
- geography
- how we live
- iconography
- objects
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by state or condition
- personal life events
- physical activities
- physical activities by general context
- plants
- religions and religious concepts
- religious concepts
- reptiles
- rites of passage
- the natural world
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- Title
- Frog
- Artist
- Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)
- Physical Description
- There is a frog on the left bottom of the painting, and on the right the artist inscribed "to make a voice" with his signature and seal.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1864 - 1957)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1927
- Accession Number
- 1949/1.195
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.55415
- Secondary Keywords
- amphibians
- animals and creatures
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- writing (processes)
- Title
- Ferghana Horse, after Jin Nong
- Artist
- Ren Xiong (Jen Hsiung)
- Physical Description
- This scroll features a single profile of a horse. The artist’s inscription states that the painting is modeled after Jin Nong’s (1687–1764) famous work entitled Ferghana Horse. Ferghana was the name of an ancient Central Asian kingdom known for its exceptional horses.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1820-1857
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1840-1857
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.32
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.55415
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- mammals
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- writing (processes)
- Title
- The Labors of Hercules: The Nemean Lion (one of the set of 13 prints)
- Artist
- Heinrich Aldegrever
- Artist Life Dates
- 1502- circa 1561
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1550
- Accession Number
- 1956/1.62
- Medium and Support
- engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.54414
- Secondary Keywords
- allegory and literature
- animals
- animals and creatures
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- figures
- figures (representations)
- iconography
- inorganic material
- landscapes (environments)
- mammals
- materials
- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by gender
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- the natural world
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- woods
- woody plants
- Title
- Furuto o fuku shojo (Girl Playing the Flute)
- Artist
- Nakayama Tadashi
- Physical Description
- A girl in patterned dress, with a rainbow colored butterfly sitting on her hair, is playing flute.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1927
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1982
- Accession Number
- 2011/2.42
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.52139
- Secondary Keywords
- aerophones
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- insects
- musical instruments
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- sound devices
- sound devices by acoustical characteristics
- Title
- Glass snuff bottle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1912-1949
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.49
- Medium and Support
- glass with coral and turquoise
- relevance
- rank 5.52118
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- descriptors
- food
- fruit
- insects
- materials
- materials by function
- objects we use
- Title
- Lian (covered cylindrical container) with bear-shaped feet
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 2nd century
- Object Creation Date
- 1st century - 2nd century
- Accession Number
- 1993/1.56.1-2
- Medium and Support
- earthenware, red, with green lead glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.52118
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- biological components
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- containers
- containers by form
- legs
- lower body
- mammals
- objects we use
- the human body
- Title
- Snuff bottle adorned with symbols of longevity
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1796-1850
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.104
- Medium and Support
- porcelain, molded & gilded, mother-of-pearl appliqué; coral and brass stopper
- relevance
- rank 5.52118
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- mammals
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- Title
- Durga as slayer of the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasuramardini)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.48
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.52118
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- buffalo
- mammals
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- weapons and ammunition
- Title
- Goldweight in the shape of a pyramid with a bird on top
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- Goldweight in the shape of a step pyramid topped by a bird.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.448
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.51620
- Secondary Keywords
- africa (continent)
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- geographic and political locations
- geometric concepts
- geometric figures
- goldweights
- mathematical concepts
- people and culture
- plane figures
- polyhedra
- scientific concepts
- Title
- Agate snuff bottle with image of lion and ball
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1800-1880
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.16
- Medium and Support
- agate and glass
- relevance
- rank 5.51620
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- mammals
- objects we use
- recreational artifacts
- recreational artifacts for competitive activities
- sports and athletic equipment
- Title
- Untitled (Rooster)
- Artist
- Cåndido Portinari
- Physical Description
- This is an ink drawing of a rooster. The rooster is centered and has its left foot raised, its right foot grounded, and its neck arched to its right.
- Artist Life Dates
- Rio de Janeiro, 1903 - 1962, Rio de Janeiro
- Object Creation Date
- 1910-1960
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.482
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.51442
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- birds
- coating (material)
- coating by form
- descriptors
- materials
- materials by function
- objects we use
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Iconography series: Saturn, mounted on a tiger
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Physical Description
- Two figures, Shani and his tiger are depicted centrally in the image. The background is very simple with some grass tufts and a pond near the very bottom of the images.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1840
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.248
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.51442
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- mammals
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- tool and equipment components
- Title
- Coral snuff bottle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1825-1900
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.53
- Medium and Support
- coral with glass and brass
- relevance
- rank 5.51442
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- mammals
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- Title
- Horse Torso
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 1st-2nd century
- Object Creation Date
- 1st century - 2nd century
- Accession Number
- UA2005.149
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with traces of polychrome
- relevance
- rank 5.51442
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- biological components
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- descriptors
- mammals
- object genres
- object genres by material
- the human body
- Title
- Heddle Pulley
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Baule Peoples Côte D'Ivoire
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1983
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.357
- Medium and Support
- painted, wood with metal and bone
- relevance
- rank 5.51442
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- descriptors
- materials
- materials by origin
- people and culture
- plant material
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- wood and wood products
- Title
- Turquoise snuff bottle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1912-1949
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.43
- Medium and Support
- turquoise
- relevance
- rank 5.51442
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- mammals
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- Title
- Durga on her lion mount
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Bihar
- Physical Description
- The four-armed Durga sits on a stylized crouching lion with her right leg pendant and the left one across her body. Her front right hand extends down with palm outwards in a boon giving gesture while the back right hand holds a sword. Her left font hand holds a fruit or flower bud while her back left hand holds a shield. The whole is simply carved with rather subdued jewelry, but she does wear necklaces, bracelets, armlets and loose anklets as well as large circular earrings and a diadem across her forehead. Her hair is arranged behind the diadem. The stele is subtly pointed and its only decoration is a band along the outside, although a throne is suggested at her knees. A highly stylized lotus supports her right foot at the base.
- Century
- 13th-14th century
- Object Creation Date
- 13th century - 14th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/1.315
- Medium and Support
- stone
- relevance
- rank 5.51442
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- mammals
- objects
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- swords
- weaponry
- Title
- Horse Torso
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 1st-2nd century
- Object Creation Date
- 1st century - 2nd century
- Accession Number
- UA2005.150
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with traces of polychrome
- relevance
- rank 5.51442
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- biological components
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- descriptors
- mammals
- object genres
- object genres by material
- the human body
- Title
- Tankard with Lid and scenes of Judith, Lucretia, and Venus
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Germany
- Physical Description
- The body of the tankard is decorated with two narrow bands of gilded abstract vegetal ornament around the neck and base, separated by a wider band that features three repoussé medallions alternating with three bosses. Each medallion depicts a standing nude female: one of the nudes appears in an interior holding a dagger to her chest; another holds a sword and a man's head and stands beside a female companion; the third holds an elongated arrow with a blindfolded cupid at her feet. The cast handle consists of a clawed bird's foot grasping a ball at the base, followed by a satyr mask, a bound female nude, and, surmounting the handle, the bust of a warrior. The lid, a later addition, bears a wreath with a series of initials and the date 1639.
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1600-1639
- Accession Number
- 1966/2.18
- Medium and Support
- repoussé and engraved silver, partially gilded
- relevance
- rank 5.51121
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- design elements
- events
- legendary creatures
- metal decorating techniques
- metalwork
- metalworking
- metalworking and metalworking processes and techniques
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- patterns (design elements)
- patterns by specific type
- people and culture
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by material
- processes and techniques by specific type
- scrollwork
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- Title
- Groom and Rider
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Physical Description
- A man is shown riding a horse, with a sword tucked into his belt. He is wearing a simple-styled premodern garment and a cap. Both the man and the horse seem tired, with their bodies bending forward and heads drooping.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1760 - 1849
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- mid 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.141
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.50990
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- edged weapons
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by activity
- weapons
- weapons and ammunition
- Title
- Hanuman
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- Hanuman stands on a tiered base, which starts square and sloped, then is square and straight up and then round sloped and ringed. He has a human body and a monkey’s head. He stands in an unbending stance with his hands in anjali mudra, held up to his chest with palms together in a prayer gesture. He wears a diaphanous garment from the waist down with only the edged decorated and depicted with a series of belts and sashes hanging in front of it. He wears a number of necklaces and armlets. His face is very worn and far less realistic than the body with the large round eyes incised with eyebrows above and a large circle on his forehead. His mouth is a simple slit.
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.53
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.50654
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- hindu
- mammals
- named gods and goddesses
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- Title
- Hanuman, standing, in anjali mudra (part of a Rama shrine)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- Hanuman is depicted with a human body and a monkey head. He stands in an unbending posture of devotion with his hands held on his chest with the palms together in a gesture of prayer, namaskara. He wears a lower garment that is decorated with belts and pendant loops and the cloth has formal decorative folds cascading down his sides. He wears a decorated belt and necklaces, bracelets and armlets, with shoulder loops, earrings, and a simple crown with a leaf shape at the top. He wears a dagger at his waist and his tail curves up behind him making a loop top frame his head like a halo.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.55
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.50654
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- hindu
- mammals
- named gods and goddesses
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- Title
- Medallion with Lion Head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African
- Physical Description
- A brass madallion with the image of a lion stamped into the metal in raised relief surrounded by abstract, rope-like patterns.
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.178
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.49966
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- descriptors
- mammals
- medals
- metalwork
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- visual works
- visual works by form
- Title
- Ivory snuff bottle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1912-1949
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.73
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 5.49966
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- descriptors
- food
- materials
- materials by function
- objects we use
- Title
- Watashi mo tobitai (I Want to Fly Too)
- Artist
- Nakayama Tadashi
- Physical Description
- A colorful butterfly is depicted in the center of the printing and the girl on the right is looking at the butterfly.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1927
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1971
- Accession Number
- 2011/2.21
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.49966
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- insects
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Kelsey and Butterfly
- Artist
- Gina Meyer Kelly
- Physical Description
- A girl lying on concrete, arms crossed over her body, there is a butterfly on one corner.
- Object Creation Date
- 1998
- Accession Number
- 2014/2.161
- Medium and Support
- black and white photograph on Kodak paper
- relevance
- rank 5.49966
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- insects
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Mukha-Linga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Physical Description
- This phallic representation of the god Shiva appears as a columnar head placed on a base with two rounded moldings on top of a series of square ones. His neck is fully cylindrical and the face is modeled on that cylinder. The eyes are wide open and a bow shaped eyebrow curves over them. He has a flared nose and luxuriant moustache over a narrow but full lips and a short ball like chin. A ‘U’ shaped element consisting of lines and a pearl motif probably represents his beard, perhaps held up in a tight net. His forehead is decorated with three raise lines that go straight across and his crown is basically flat over his hear decorated with a bunch of peak forms in the center with a finial surmounting the whole. His ears fan out almost like handles to a jar and are decorated with stylized arabesques. A five-headed snake hood rises behind the head and has a rib down its center and scale motives incised towards the bottom an ‘S’ shapes t denote the cobra ‘eyes’ to each side.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.52A
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.49966
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- hinduism
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- reptiles
- snakes
- Title
- Ape Deity (M'Botumbo)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ivory Coast, District of Bouake,Village of Yamoussoukro, Baule
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1971
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.30
- Medium and Support
- wood with patination of blood, eggshell and pitch
- relevance
- rank 5.49966
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- mammals
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- Title
- Wood snuff bottle in the shape of an eggplant with dragonply
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1912-1949
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.87
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.49966
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- descriptors
- food
- materials
- materials by function
- objects we use
- Title
- Tsuba (Sword guard) with inlaid design of egrets and reeds(attached to 1973/2.88)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- This tsuba is a flat iron plate with quatrefoil design. It has three holes: one for blade (middle) flanked by oval-shape hole (for kougai) and oval with bump shape (for kozuka). Egrets and reeds decorate the surface, distributed in a curve that climbs counter-clockwise from the bottom left register, culmiating in the top left with a lone egret in flight. Egrets on the bottom of the piece perch on the ground or nest in the golden reeds.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1615-1868
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.12
- Medium and Support
- iron with gold and silver inlays
- relevance
- rank 5.49905
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- edged weapons
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in military occupations
- weapons
- weapons and ammunition
- Title
- Peacock
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Physical Description
- A bronze statue in the shape of a peacock, this piece has engraved decorations and is made in the Seljuk style of metalwork.
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.116
- Medium and Support
- bronze with engraved decoration
- relevance
- rank 5.49316
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- birds
- descriptors
- geographic and political locations
- middle east (general region)
- object genres
- object genres by material
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- Title
- Console with bird in vine scroll, rinceau, and angel
- Artist
- Anonymous French (Burgundy)
- Physical Description
- A three-quarter length angel, robustly carved in high relief, emerges from a cloud bank on the curved inner face of the console. The outer face of the console bears a tightly wound vine scroll carved in shallower relief with a bird at its center. The bird grasps the vine with its left leg while stretching back to grasp a cluster of grapes in its beak.
- Century
- Third quarter of 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1150-1175
- Accession Number
- 1975/1.64
- Medium and Support
- limestone
- relevance
- rank 5.48806
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- architectural elements
- buildings and the land
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- descriptors
- design elements
- doorframe components
- doorframes and doorframe components
- doorway components
- doorways and doorway components
- legendary creatures
- openings (architectural elements)
- openings and opening components
- openings by form
- patterns (design elements)
- patterns by specific type
- religious structures
- scrollwork
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- Title
- Maunder's Fish Shop, Chelsea
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Physical Description
- A scene of figures in doorways and examing goods outside a store occupies the lower portion of the image while the architecture--windows, downspouts, signs, and string courses creates a rectilinear framework of the second floor.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1890
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.5
- Medium and Support
- transfer lithograph on laid Japan tissue
- relevance
- rank 5.48603
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- animals and creatures
- architectural elements
- architecture
- buildings and the land
- commercial buildings
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- mercantile buildings
- openings (architectural elements)
- openings and opening components
- openings by form
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- the natural world
- windows and window components
- Title
- Dog
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- pottery model of a standing dog, as part of the grave furnishing in a Han tomb
- Century
- 1st-2nd century
- Object Creation Date
- 1st century - 2nd century
- Accession Number
- 1993/1.96
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with traces of polychrome pigments
- relevance
- rank 5.48483
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- art genres
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- mammals
- object genres
- object genres by location, context or origin
- people and culture
- Title
- Temple bell with handle of a pair of addorsed lions and a dragon
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Burma
- Physical Description
- Bronze temple bell with traces of polychrome, text, and lowermost handle in shape of a pair of addorsed lions. A decorated post threads through the space created by the back-to-back lions, on which an additional handle decorated with addorsed dragons is thread. The open space created between the dragons' connecting tails is where part of a frame would pass through, suspending the bell above the ground. This type of bell does not have a metal clapper, and is rung by striking with a wooden stick.
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1907
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.237A-C
- Medium and Support
- bronze with traces of polychrome
- relevance
- rank 5.48479
- Secondary Keywords
- hollow-bodied
- animals and creatures
- bells and sets of bells
- buildings and the land
- chordophones
- copper alloy
- copper and copper alloy
- descriptors
- directly struck idiophones
- inorganic material
- legendary creatures
- mammals
- materials
- materials by composition
- metal
- metal and metal products
- metal by composition or origin
- nonferrous metal
- objects we use
- percussion idiophones
- religious buildings
- religious structures
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- sound devices
- sound devices by acoustical characteristics
- struck idiophones
- Title
- Mukha-Linga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Physical Description
- This phallic representation of the god Shiva appears as a columnar head placed on a base with two rounded moldings on top of a series of square ones. His neck is fully cylindrical and the face is modeled on that cylinder. The eyes are wide open and a bow shaped eyebrow curves over them. He has a flared nose and luxuriant moustache over a narrow but full lips and a short ball like chin. A ‘U’ shaped element consisting of lines and a pearl motif probably represents his beard, perhaps held up in a tight net. His forehead is decorated with three raise lines that go straight across and his crown is basically flat over his hear decorated with a bunch of peak forms in the center with a finial surmounting the whole. His ears fan out almost like handles to a jar and are decorated with stylized arabesques. A five-headed snake hood rises behind the head and has a rib down its center and scale motives incised towards the bottom an ‘S’ shapes t denote the cobra ‘eyes’ to each side.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.52B
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.47667
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- hindu
- hinduism
- named gods and goddesses
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- reptiles
- snakes
- subject matter