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Title

A Group of Strolling Peasants

Artist

Saverio della Gatta

Physical Description

This watercolor depicts a group of three children, three adult females, two adult males, and one small dog. An adult male plays a string instrument on the far left side, and an adult female sits on the lower right side; the rest stand. All the figures wear vividly colored clothes.

Artist Life Dates

1777-1811

Object Creation Date

1777-1811

Accession Number

2009/1.528

Medium and Support

watercolor on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:15:56

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

farmers

mammals

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

people by occupation

people in agriculture

people in agriculture or natural resource occupations

people in science-related occupations

people in the arts

people in the arts and related occupations

people in the humanities

people in the performing arts

scientists and people in science-related occupations

Title

Landscape with Animals at a Fountain

Artist

Jan van Huysum

Physical Description

This ink and chalk drawing has a laying lamb in left foreground, a human figure behind it with two cows on either side, a statue in center with cattle to the right, and a large, split tree in background with mountains behind it.

Artist Life Dates

1682-1749

Object Creation Date

1700-1749

Accession Number

2009/1.504

Medium and Support

ink, chalk on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:15:55

Secondary Keywords

upward

animals and creatures

buildings and the land

hydraulic structures

hydraulic structures by function

landforms

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landforms by shape or position

landscapes (environments)

natural landscapes

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

plants

settlements and landscapes

single built works

single built works by function

single built works by specific type

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

water distribution structures

woody plants

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

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:15:53

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

The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Kichizo Edition): #13 Numazu

Artist

Andô Hiroshige

Physical Description

Small group of figures with a palanquin and horse along with shops and a rounded hill in the distance.

Artist Life Dates

1797-1858

Object Creation Date

circa 1850

Accession Number

2008/2.319

Medium and Support

woodblock print on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:15:38

Secondary Keywords

layout features

upward

animals and creatures

buildings and the land

components

components and systems

components by specific context

dwellings

houses

houses by form

illustrations

illustrations by form

images and ornament

information form components

landforms

landforms and landform components

landforms by shape or position

landscapes (environments)

layout features

mammals

natural landscapes

plants

residential structures

settlements and landscapes

single built works

single built works by function

single built works by specific type

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

woody plants

Title

The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Kichizo Edition): #34 Futagawa

Artist

Andô Hiroshige

Physical Description

Group of people carrying parcels and leading horses in front of a shop. Other travelers can be seen crossing in the distance. There is a tall tree by the store, and across the water is a smal hill with trees on it. The skyline is edged in pink, suggesting dawn or dusk. Writing in upper right and left corners. Title in red box in upper right corner.

Artist Life Dates

1797-1858

Object Creation Date

circa 1850

Accession Number

2008/2.316

Medium and Support

woodblock print on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:15:38

Secondary Keywords

upward

animals and creatures

buildings and the land

commercial buildings

descriptors

dwellings

inorganic material

landforms

landforms and landform components

landforms by shape or position

landscapes (environments)

mammals

materials

materials by composition

mercantile buildings

natural landscapes

objects we use

plants

residential structures

settlements and landscapes

single built works

single built works by function

single built works by specific type

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

visual works

visual works by subject type

woody plants

Title

La Cigarette

Artist

Jacques Villon

Physical Description

Colors: rose, brown, blue, green, grey, yellow. Paper size: lh 63 1/5cm & rh 63cm x w 45cm. Image size: lh 41 4/5cm & rh 41 1/2cm x w 34 2/5cm.

Artist Life Dates

1875-1963

Accession Number

2008/2.369

Medium and Support

color etching and aquatint on calendered beige wove paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:15:04

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

animals and creatures

descriptors

image-making processes and techniques

intaglio printing processes

intaglio prints

leaf (plant material)

mammals

materials

materials by origin

objects we use

plant material

printing and printing processes and techniques

printing processes

prints

prints by process

prints by process or technique

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

tobacco

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Calendar

Artist

Serizawa Keisuke

Physical Description

This print of a calendar for the month of January, 1964, is dominated by red. Blues and purples round out the composition. Sundays are indicated with red numbers and purple boxes, while the rest of the calendar days sit in red boxes with the numbered date showing as paper through negative space. The year 1963 is printed at top center in a rounded and pointed red rectangular shape. Birds, flowers, and kanji are used to decorate the upper register.

Artist Life Dates

1895-1984

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1962

Accession Number

2010/2.48.1

Medium and Support

color print (kataezome) on handmade mulberry paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:55

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

buildings and the land

document genres

document genres by form

herbaceous plants

information forms

landscapes (environments)

natural landscapes

objects we use

plants

prints by function

settlements and landscapes

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

woody plants

Title

Les Voisins de Campagne

Artist

Félix Hilaire Buhot

Physical Description

Paper size: lh 24cm & rh 23 4/5cm x tw 29cm & bw 29 1/5cm. Image size: h 13 1/2cm x w 18cm.

Artist Life Dates

1847-1898

Accession Number

2008/2.458

Medium and Support

etching, drypoint and soft-ground etching on beige laid paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:50

Secondary Keywords

settlement area

animals and creatures

buildings and the land

costume

costume accessories

costume accessories carried

descriptors

dwellings

engraving (printing process)

houses

houses by location

houses by location or context

image-making processes and techniques

intaglio printing processes

mammals

objects we use

printing and printing processes and techniques

printing processes

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

residential structures

rural houses

single built works

single built works by function

single built works by specific type

Title

Claire de lune a Vilmondis

Artist

Charles-François Daubigny

Physical Description

Paper previously folded (approx. 2cm) at top, now flattened. Puncture hole at top center on fold line. Paper size: lh 21cm & rh 21 3/10cm x tw 27 4/5cm & bw 27 7/10cm. Plate size: lh 16 4/5cm & rh 16 9/10cm x tw 23 3/5cm & bw 23 1/2cm. Image size: h 13 1/2cm x w 21 1/2cm.

Artist Life Dates

1817-1878

Accession Number

2008/2.447

Medium and Support

etching and drypoint on beige laid paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:48

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

animals and creatures

associated concepts

earth sciences concepts

intaglio prints

mammals

objects we use

people and culture

physical sciences concepts

prints

prints by process

prints by process or technique

scientific concepts

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

L'Anesse Marie-Jeanne

Artist

Félix Hilaire Buhot

Physical Description

Paper size: lh 19 3/5cm & rh 19 9/10cm x tw 28cm & bw 28 1/10cm. Image size: lh 14 1/10cm & rh 14 3/10cm x w 16 1/5cm.

Artist Life Dates

1847-1898

Accession Number

2008/2.446

Medium and Support

etching on beige laid paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:48

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

agricultural complexes

animals and creatures

birds

buildings and the land

built complexes and districts

complexes

complexes by function

descriptors

image-making processes and techniques

intaglio printing processes

intaglio prints

mammals

objects we use

printing and printing processes and techniques

printing processes

prints

prints by process

prints by process or technique

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Angel Holding a Palm and a Crown

Artist

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Physical Description

Paper size: lh 17 1/5cm & rh 17cm x tw 22 7/10cm & bw 23cm. Plate size: h 9cm x w 14 1/10cm. Image size: lh 8 1/10cm & rh 8 3/10cm x tw 13cm & bw 12 1/10cm.

Artist Life Dates

1732-1806

Accession Number

2008/2.438

Medium and Support

etching on beige laid paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:45

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

accessories worn on the head

animals and creatures

costume

costume accessories

costume accessories worn

headgear

intaglio prints

legendary creatures

objects we use

prints

prints by process

prints by process or technique

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

L'Arondelle

Artist

Marc Chagall

Physical Description

Colors: brown-gray. Pink, magenta, red, lt. blue, blue, lt. aqua, lt. green, green, lt. yellow, yello, lt. beige, burt-orange. Paper size: h 42 3/10cm x tw 31 7/10cm & bw 32 1/10cm.

Artist Life Dates

Russia, 1889-1985

Accession Number

2008/2.422

Medium and Support

color lithograph on beige wove paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:42

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

associated concepts

concepts in the arts

descriptors

design elements

genres in the arts

literary, oral and motion picture genres

mammals

ornament areas

people and culture

Title

The Hen with the Golden Eggs

Artist

Marc Chagall

Physical Description

Paper size: lh 42cm & rh 41 4/5cm x tw 33cm & bw 33 1/2cm. Plate size: h 31 1/2cm x w 25 1/2cm. Image size: lh 29 1/2cm & rh 29 2/5cm x tw 23 9/10cm & bw 23 7/10cm.

Artist Life Dates

Russia, 1889-1985

Accession Number

2008/2.415

Medium and Support

etching, engraving and drypoint on beige laid paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:40

Secondary Keywords

animal material

animal material by form or function

animals and creatures

birds

descriptors

egg and egg components

engraving (printing process)

image-making processes and techniques

intaglio printing processes

materials

materials by origin

printing and printing processes and techniques

printing processes

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

Title

Saint Jerome in His Chamber

Artist

Albrecht Dürer

Physical Description

Print trimmed to image frame line. Paper repaired along the right edge of the print. Paper size: h 24 7/10cm x tw 18 3/5cm & bw 18 4/5cm.

Artist Life Dates

Nüremberg, 1471-1528

Accession Number

2008/2.411

Medium and Support

engraving on beige laid paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:39

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

building divisions

components

components and systems

components by specific context

descriptors

image-making processes and techniques

intaglio printing processes

mammals

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by state or condition

printing and printing processes and techniques

printing processes

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

rooms and spaces

rooms and spaces by location or context

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

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:37

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

Bords de Riviere ou les Oies

Artist

Alfred Sisley

Physical Description

Paper size: h 36 1/2cm x tw 46 1/2cm & bw 47cm. Image size: lh 21 3/5cm & rh 21 1/2cm x tw 32cm & bw 32 1/5cm.

Artist Life Dates

1839-1899

Accession Number

2008/2.395

Medium and Support

color lithograph on beige wove paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:36

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

animals and creatures

birds

bodies of water and components of bodies of water

buildings and the land

components of bodies of water

landscapes (environments)

lithographs

natural landscapes

objects we use

planographic prints

prints

prints by process

prints by process or technique

settlements and landscapes

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Picador

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Physical Description

Colors: black, brown, beige. Paper size: h 37 7/10cm x tw 48 1/10cm & bw 48cm. Image size: h 16 3/5cm x tw 22 1/2cm & bw 22 3/5cm.

Artist Life Dates

1881 - 1973

Accession Number

2008/2.391

Medium and Support

color linoleum cut on beige wove paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:35

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

equipment

equipment by process

image-making equipment

mammals

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by activity

printing and printmaking equipment

printing blocks

printing surfaces

tools and equipment

Title

Farm Landscape

Artist

Jacques Callot

Physical Description

Some mold damage. Paper size: lh 20 7/10cm & rh 20 9/10cm x w 32 3/5cm. Image size: h 8 1/2cm x w 21 3/5cm.

Accession Number

2008/2.381

Medium and Support

etching on beige laid paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:32

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

agricultural complexes

agricultural functions

animals and creatures

buildings and the land

built complexes and districts

complexes

complexes by function

descriptors

functions

functions (activities)

functions by specific context

image-making processes and techniques

intaglio printing processes

intaglio prints

mammals

objects we use

open spaces

open spaces and site elements

open spaces by form

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

people by occupation

people in agriculture

people in agriculture or natural resource occupations

people in science-related occupations

printing and printing processes and techniques

printing processes

prints

prints by process

prints by process or technique

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

religious buildings

religious structures

scientists and people in science-related occupations

single built works

single built works by function

single built works by specific type

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Jenue Tiger Jouant Avec Sa Mere

Artist

Eugène Delacroix

Physical Description

Paper size: lh 24 9/10cm & rh 24 1/2cm x tw 32cm & bw 31 /710cm. Plate size: lh 14 3/10cm & rh 14 1/5cm x tw 20 7/10cm & bw 20 2/5cm. Image size: h 11 1/5cm x w 18 4/5cm.

Accession Number

2008/2.379

Medium and Support

lithograph on cream wove paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:31

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

animals and creatures

mammals

objects we use

parents

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by family relationship

planographic prints

prints

prints by process

prints by process or technique

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

The Flemish Farrier

Artist

Théodore Géricault

Physical Description

Paper size: h 33 3/5cm x tw 42 1/2cm & bw 42 3/10cm. Image size: h 22 7/10cm x w 31 2/5cm.

This lithograph is printed is tones of brown ink on cream colored paper. There is a large dappled horse standing in a stall with its left rear hoof raised. On the left, a man, standing with feet braced and muscular arms extended, uses tools to attach a shoe to the horse's hoof. Steam billows from the hot metal shoe. On the right, a man stands leaning against the stall and a small child reaches up toward the horse's head. The horse bends its head down toward the child. There is an English inscription below this scene that identifies the artist, title and publisher.

Artist Life Dates

1791-1824

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1821

Accession Number

2008/2.374

Medium and Support

lithograph on cream wove paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:31

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

animals and creatures

groups of people

kinship groups

mammals

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

planographic prints

prints

prints by process

prints by process or technique

social groups

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Un Seigneur De Temps De Francois

Artist

Eugène Delacroix

Physical Description

Paper size: lh 28 9/10cm & rh 28 7/10cm x tw 22 3/5cm & bw 22 1/2cm. Print/japan paper size: lh 17 4/5cm & rh 18 1/10cm x tw 13 3/10cm & bw 13 2/5cm.

Artist Life Dates

1798-1863

Accession Number

2008/2.378

Medium and Support

etching and drypoint on laid Japan paper chiné colle on wove plate paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:31

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

descriptors

engraving (printing process)

image-making processes and techniques

intaglio printing processes

mammals

objects we use

printing and printing processes and techniques

printing processes

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

visual works

visual works by subject type

Title

Le Brebis et les Deaux Agneaux

Artist

Charles Meryon

Physical Description

Paper size: h 17 3/10cm x w 24 2/5cm. Plate size: lh 8cm & rh 8 1/10cm x w 10 1/5cm. Image size: h 6 3/5cm x tw 91/5cm & bw9 3/10cm.

Artist Life Dates

1821-1868

Accession Number

2008/2.372

Medium and Support

etching and aquatint on cream wove paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:14:30

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

animals and creatures

descriptors

image-making processes and techniques

intaglio printing processes

intaglio prints

mammals

objects we use

printing and printing processes and techniques

printing processes

prints

prints by process

prints by process or technique

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

As Long as I Don't Have to Get Up Before 11:00

Artist

Mark Kostabi

Physical Description

Ink drawing on paper. Black wash ground, with two figures drawn in opaque black ink. A comic figure who is shirtless and in boxers, with his beer belly hanging out, and whose pointy rimmed hat is reminiscent of the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, dances at the center of an ominous scene. His right leg has been kicked through a television set that he holds with his right hand. Scissors fall from his left hand towards what looks like a two-slot toaster. A black, horned beast lurks in the background, holding a phone overhead that has two earpieces, but no cradle. The scene is possibly set in a graveyard; the edifice silhouetting behind the scarecrow figure is shaped like a headstone.

Artist Life Dates

born 1960

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1988

Accession Number

2008/2.240

Medium and Support

ink on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:13:27

Secondary Keywords

layout features

animals and creatures

architectural elements

architectural elements by building type

buildings and the land

built complexes and districts

business and related functions

complexes

complexes by function

components

components and systems

components by specific context

drawings

drawings by technique

functions

functions (activities)

functions by specific context

funerary structures

images and ornament

information form components

layout features

legendary creatures

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in the arts

people in the arts and related occupations

people in the humanities

people in the performing arts

performing artists

sepulchral monuments

single built works

single built works by function

single built works by specific type

system components

telecommunication systems components

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Do yu Get it

Artist

Martin Johnson

Physical Description

7-sided frame made of reclaimed wood moulding and slats nailed together and backed with strips of green felt, possibly from a pool table. Gold wire traces the wood frame, and is accented with a fuzz ball or googly eye at each corner. A toy car is placed on the gold wire “track” at bottom center; car racing flag stickers attached to the frame in a couple places. Three pieces of thread are strung horizontally across the frame, a “spider web” attached to top two lines with puffy paint. A wood (?) cutout of a smiling joker mouth hung from web by wire.

Artist Life Dates

(1951 - )

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1996

Accession Number

2008/2.235

Medium and Support

mixed media consruction, paint, wood, wire, toy car

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:13:26

Secondary Keywords

abstract expressionist

animals and creatures

applied decoration

arthropods

associated concepts

biological components

biological concepts

buildings and the land

built complexes and districts

complexes

complexes by function

components

components and systems

components by specific context

descriptors

design elements

faces

found object sculpture

freewheeled vehicles

freewheeled vehicles by form or function

heads

image-making processes and techniques

international post-1945 styles and movements

land vehicles

land vehicles by form

leisure and competition vehicles

life

life stages

metalwork

object genres

object genres by material

object-making processes and techniques

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in the arts

people in the arts and related occupations

people in the humanities

people in the performing arts

performing artists

post-1945 fine arts styles and movements

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

recreation areas

recreational artifacts

recreational artifacts for noncompetitive activities

scientific concepts

sculpture

sculpture by material

sculpture techniques

sports complexes

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

the human body

transportation vehicles

upper body

vehicles

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Lone Rooster Summons the Spring

Artist

Chang Ku-nien

Physical Description

The Rooster is singled out by its expressive outlining brushwork and the vibrant red color of the comb. Its decorative flavor is also enhanced by using a specific type of paper called “cloud-dragon paper” (yunlong zhi), as the pattern of décor resembles motifs of cloud and dragon. Vertical calligraphic text in in the upper left corner.

Artist Life Dates

1906-1987

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1981

Accession Number

2006/1.112

Medium and Support

ink and color on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:13:18

Secondary Keywords

animals

asian

atmospheric effects

birds

chickens

coating (material)

coating by form

descriptors

forms

making art

materials

materials by function

seasons

the natural world

Title

Blue-and-white double-gourd wall vase, Wanli Era (1573-1619) mark and period

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Porcelain bottle vase of double gourd design, flat on reverse side with a slot for hanging on the wall, possibly inside the chamber of a royal sedan chair. Dragon motif is represented on both the upper lobe and the lower one.

Century

16th-17th century

Object Creation Date

1573-1620

Accession Number

1986/2.13

Medium and Support

porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue decoration

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:13:10

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

containers

containers by form

legendary creatures

objects we use

vessels

Title

Tsuba (Sword guard) with design of dragon among clouds

Artist

Okada Masatoyo

Physical Description

The flat iron plate with quatrefoil shape and the design of a dragon in midst of clouds. It has three holes: one for blade (middle) flanked by two deformed oval-shape holes (for kougai and kozuka). Around the blade hole, there is the carver’s signature. The design of a dragon, among stylized clouds, is intricately carved in high relief; the dragon has almost three-dimensional quality. On the back, the dragon tail, some parts of the body, one claw are peeking from clouds. The dragon coils around the center holes. The rims of the three circles are wavy, as if they are the part of the cloud design. The stoppers on the blade hole edges are made of gold. Some silver inlays are applied on the dragon’s eye blow and some nails.

Artist Life Dates

act. 1789

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1978/2.6

Medium and Support

iron with gold and silver inlays

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:13:07

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

associated concepts

components

components and systems

components by specific context

earth sciences concepts

edged weapon components

legendary creatures

people and culture

physical sciences concepts

scientific concepts

weapon components

weather and related phenomena

weather-related phenomena

Title

Tsuba (sword guard) with inlaid design of samurai on horseback at the shore

Artist

Harunori

Physical Description

This small, flat metal piece has a quartrefoil shape. Three holes in the middle. Some chips can be seen around the center hole, which mended with silver and copper. A samurai on horseback is charging into the sea from steep hill; he is wearing a helmet, armor, and sword, and holding a fan. A pine tree is standing on the samurai’s right side; there are rocks and bamboo grass by the ocean. The motifs of the ocean, pine tree, bamboo grass and rocks also appear on the reverse side. Gold and some silver and copper inlays are applied on pine branches, samurai's helmet, horse's mane and bridle, bamboo grass on the shore, and spray from waves.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1978/2.2

Medium and Support

iron with gold, silver, and copper inlays

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:13:06

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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Title

Tsuba (sword guard) with chrysanthemum and butterfly design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

The 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). Chrysanthemums, autumn grass and a rock are carved on lower-right side; a butterfly is descending toward the flowers. Gold inlays are applied to the flowers, grass, part of the rock, and butterfly. The surface is finely granulated by etching (“ishime-ji”).

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1978/2.11

Medium and Support

iron with gold inlays

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:13:06

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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Title

Tsuba (sword guard) with design of blowfish, shrimp and plant

Artist

Seishinsai

Physical Description

This small, flat piece made of light brown brass (called "sentoku" in Japanese) has a round diamond shape. It has a triangular shaped hole in the center and another round hole on one side. Artist’s name is signed between the two holes. The surface is slightly concaved from the rim. The front has relief design of a shrimp, blowfish, and bamboo branch. On the back, there are designs of a spiral shell, a barnacle, and water drops. The sea motifs are inlayed with gold, silver, copper, and shakudô (copper-gold alloy).

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1978/2.3

Medium and Support

brass with gold, silver, copper, and shakudô (copper-gold alloy) inlays

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:13:06

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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crustaceans

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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

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:12:58

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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vessels

Title

Northern Summer Window

Artist

Marsden Hartley

Physical Description

A vase with flowers sits before a window, between two books that lie on a table, and framed by open red curtains. The landscape outside the window shows a blue cloud sky above a body of water.

Artist Life Dates

1877 - 1943

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1936

Accession Number

1949/2.89

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:12:49

Secondary Keywords

animals

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bodies of water

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Title

Box with Double-Dragon Design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Lacquered wooden box with inlaid mother-of-pearl in double-dragon design. The heads of each dragon stretch diagonally inward from opposite corners of the box, with wide eyes and open mouths. Their bodies curve in and out of the top plane of the box, creating an opposing effect with symmetrical balance. The dragons reach forward towards a flaming orb in the center of the box, called a cintamani, or Buddhist wish-granting jewel. Among the dragons are swirling cloud designs made of inlaid nacre and copper wire.

Century

18th-19th century

Object Creation Date

late 18th century - early 19th century

Accession Number

2007/2.8

Medium and Support

lacquered wood with mother-of-pearl, tortoise shell, and copper wire inlays

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:12:38

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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legendary creatures

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Title

Proto-Yue Ware Chicken-Headed Ewer

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Green-glazed ewer with spout in the shape of a chicken's head and handle in the form of a dragon's head and neck

Century

4th-5th c

Object Creation Date

317-420

Accession Number

2005/2.92

Medium and Support

stoneware with celadon glaze

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:12:28

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

asia (continent)

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vessels for serving and consuming food

Title

Egôro (ritual censer)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

It is a bronze incense burner with a long handle. The circular bowl is a brazier, in which incense is burnt in Shinto rituals. The brazier has a fluted mouth and double-lines on the outside body. A circular foot, in a chrysanthemum shape, is attached to the brazier. There is a support that connects between the brazier and the foot. The brazier’s lid has an intricate openwork design of lotus flower scrolls with a knob in the shape of a lotus bud. The rim has an incised, stylized design of clouds. The mounting between the brazier and the handle is in the shape of Buddhist jewel with two semi-precious stones. The handle has carved lotus flower scrolls, and the end of which is bent at a right angle and joined to a round pedestal. Rising from the pedestal is a small statue of a lion on a lotus-shape pedestal, which serves as a knob handgrip when the incense burner is held.

Century

16th-17th century

Object Creation Date

1583-1650

Accession Number

2007/2.6

Medium and Support

gilt bronze with semiprecious stones

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:12:25

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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Title

Container

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Red lacquered wooden duck-shaped container wth lid

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

2006/2.43A&B

Medium and Support

cinnabar-laquered wood with metal band

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:12:19

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

birds

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Title

Round Three-Tiered Box

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

20th century

Accession Number

2006/2.37A-D

Medium and Support

black, red and gold lacquer on wood

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:12:18

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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coating by composition or origin

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mammals

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Title

Blue-and-White Water Dropper in the shape of a fish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

2004/1.287

Medium and Support

porcelain with blue underglaze painting

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:12:09

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

containers

containers by form

objects we use

Title

The Flood

Artist

Artist Unknown, Dutch

Physical Description

In an ominous landscape a crowd of nude men, women and children, their bodies silhouetted against the descending gloom, struggle frantically to escape rising floodwaters. The figures gesture wildly and strenuously twist their long athletic bodies into a seemingly infinite variety of contortions as they clamber up the last hilltops and trees. A city stands on a hill and appears through the trees in the background.

Century

16th-17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1590

Accession Number

1985/2.70

Medium and Support

oil on panel

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:11:59

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

bible

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Title

Small bowl with incised design of a bird

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

It has a slightly inverted rim and mildly surved sides tapering gradually to a narrow foot. The graze is dark greenish blue in cloor, leaning toward green. The foot was carved out from the inside tl a very shallow depth. Two parrots was carved symmetrically.

Object Creation Date

12th century

Accession Number

1965/2.69

Medium and Support

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:11:51

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

birds

containers

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vessels

Title

One of Nine Panels, each with various pieces of textile

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Object Creation Date

n.d.

Accession Number

1972/2.44.5

Medium and Support

brocade with silk, velvet and gold

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:11:50

Secondary Keywords

animals

butterflies

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plants

the natural world

Title

One of Nine Panels, each with various pieces of textile

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Object Creation Date

n.d.

Accession Number

1972/2.44.4

Medium and Support

brocade with silk, velvet and gold

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:11:50

Secondary Keywords

animals

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Title

One of Four Panels of Textile Fragments: Kinran and Karaori

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

This brocade makes use of gold thread, creating a composite that shimmers. the warm, muted tones of the gold are matched in color selections of light blue, dark blue, yellow, mauve, silvery white, and muted green threads. Two textile fragments have been sewn into a gold background. On the left is a rectangular segment of a blue and green dragon among clouds. The right segment is a floral decoration of a variety of plants and colors, interspersed with horizontal lines.

Century

17th to 18th centuries

Object Creation Date

17th century

Accession Number

1972/2.44.1

Medium and Support

silk brocade with gilt paper (kinran); Noh robe fragment, karaori (Chinese weave

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:11:50

Secondary Keywords

patterning

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Title

One of Four Panels of Textile Fragments: Brocades in Various Traditional Pattern

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

A checkered gold brocade foregrounds five fragments of textile: a square in the middle surrounded by four cornerpieces. Each textile has a different design, some with butterflies, birds, and other floral motifs.

Century

19th to 20th centuries

Object Creation Date

1860-1926

Accession Number

1972/2.44.9

Medium and Support

silk brocade (nishiki) and silk brocade with gilt paper (kinran)

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:11:50

Secondary Keywords

patterning

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Title

The Young Shoemaker and the Lion Before Bahram Gur, from the Shahnama of Firdausi

Artist

Shiraz and Timurid Schools

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1460

Accession Number

1963/1.69

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold leaf on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:11:41

Secondary Keywords

allegory and literature

animals

literary

mammals

the natural world

Title

Menuki (sword scabbard ornament): dragon (attached to 1973/2.87)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

Golden lion with gently curving tail and arched back. Each foot is capped with three intimidating claw-like nails. The lion is oriented as if stalking from left to right, but the head turns back inward towards the center, with a downward flowing mane.

Century

19th Century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1982/2.18

Medium and Support

gold

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:11:41

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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edged weapons

mammals

objects we use

sheaths

weapons

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Title

Bahram Gur Hunting with Azada, from the Shahnama of Firdausi

Artist

Shiraz and Timurid Schools

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1460

Accession Number

1963/1.68

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold leaf on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:11:41

Secondary Keywords

allegory and literature

animals

literary

mammals

objects

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the natural world

Title

Sword scabbard ornament (menuki): lion (pair w/ dragon, 1982/2.18)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1982/2.17

Medium and Support

copper with gold

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:11:41

Secondary Keywords

animals

army

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military

objects

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the natural world

warriors

Title

Talhand Confronts His Brother Gav on the Battlefield, from the Shahnama of Firdausi

Artist

Shiraz and Timurid Schools

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1460

Accession Number

1963/1.72

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold leaf on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:11:41

Secondary Keywords

allegory and literature

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geography

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literary

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men on horseback

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war

Title

Rustam Takes Prisoner the Khan of China, from the Shahnama of Firdausi

Artist

Shiraz and Timurid Schools

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1460

Accession Number

1963/1.52

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold leaf on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:11:40

Secondary Keywords

allegory and literature

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army

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literary

mammals

military

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the natural world

war