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Title

Large Porcelain "Guan" Jar , Baluster Form

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

The short vertical neck is decorated with a key motif repeat. The shoulders are decorated with a tapered lappet device repeat. The open large scale decoration features two mythical kylin in a suggested landscape of mountains. The opposing side depicts a moonlit valley with assorted foliage and stylized clouds. The base is unglazed with turning marks and discolored with good evidence of age.

Object Creation Date

circa 1573-1619

Accession Number

2009/2.109

Medium and Support

porcelain

relevance

rank 24.65991

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Title

Bencharong Ware Jar (tho)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Covered ceramic jar with brilliantly colored overglaze enamel painting in repreating floral patterns. A small base curves into a deep, wide bowl with a flaring mouth, in which the lid rests. The lid can be turned upside down to provide a shallow bowl, the base of which (or topmost portion of the lid) is encircled by gold and green bands.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.476A&B

Medium and Support

porcelain with overglaze enamel painting

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rank 24.47797

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Title

Bencharong Ware Jar (tho)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Covered ceramic jar with brilliantly colored Thai-inspired overglaze enamel painting in floral patterns. The lid mimics the spires of Thai Buddhist architecture, rising from the gentle curve of the lower portion of the lid and alternating between solid bands of green, and multicolored floral patterns. The green covers what would be the underside of each of the colorful three tiers of "roof" segments, culminating in what appears to be a red and gold lotus bud at the top of the lid.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.465A&B

Medium and Support

porcelain with overglaze enamel painting

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rank 24.47797

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Title

Vase (one of a pair)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Cloisonne (metalwork with enamel decor) jar. This jar uses brightly colored red, blue, green, yellow, and pinkish-purple enamelsto decorate its registers with intricate floral and vegetal patterns. Mounted on a sturdy circular base, the body of the vase flares outward to its widest point, then curves inward more steeply toward the neck, from which a bowl-like mouth curves upwards.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.470.1

Medium and Support

Cloisonné (metalwork with enamel décor)

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rank 23.61605

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Title

Vase (one of a pair)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Cloisonne (metalwork with enamel decor) jar. This jar uses brightly colored red, blue, green, yellow, and pinkish-purple enamelsto decorate its registers with intricate floral and vegetal patterns. Mounted on a sturdy circular base, the body of the vase flares outward to its widest point, then curves inward more steeply toward the neck, from which a bowl-like mouth curves upwards.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.470.2

Medium and Support

Cloisonné (metalwork with enamel décor)

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rank 23.61605

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Title

Bencharong Ware Large Covered Jar

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.463A&B

Medium and Support

porcelain with overglaze enamel painting

relevance

rank 23.13337

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Title

Bencharong Ware Spitton with Buddhist dieties Thapanom and Norasingh, and Chinese fire patterns

Artist

Artist Unknown, China, Bencharong ware

Physical Description

Bencharong ware spittoon made in a private kiln in Jingdezhen, China, for Thai market. Probably ordered from Thai royalty, under the reign of Rama II (r. 1809-1824). It is the porcelain ware enameled with multiple colors, in the style called “five colors” (“bencharong” refers to five colors in Sanskrit). It has a large mouth and bulbous shape, with design of minor Buddhist deities Thepanom and Norasingh, and Chinese fire patterns.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

early 19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.464

Medium and Support

porcelain with overglaze enamel painting

relevance

rank 21.78468

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Title

Sancai Figure

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Chinese ceramic Sancai figure of a man in robe and tall hat, standing on an octagonal platform. The figure is colored; his robes are green, while his sash, end of sleeves and collar are a reddish/oragne color, which also corresponds to the colors on the platform. His tall hat is colored black. The head of the figure is detachable from the body of the figure.

Object Creation Date

1368-1644

Accession Number

2009/2.105

Medium and Support

ceramic

relevance

rank 21.66891

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Title

Funerary jar with "peacock feather" pattern

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Earthenware jar with sancai (three-color) glaze in amber, green and cream with blue in a peacock-feather pattern

Century

8th century

Object Creation Date

700-749

Accession Number

1969/2.160

Medium and Support

earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze

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rank 21.04619

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Title

Sancai tomb guardian (one of a pair w/2004/2.132.2) with animal face and horns

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Earthenware ceramic figure with tri-color glaze (in amber, cream and green) in the form of a creature with an animal face and horns

Century

7th-8th century

Object Creation Date

circa 675-750

Accession Number

2004/2.132.1

Medium and Support

earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze

relevance

rank 20.65709

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Title

Blue-and-White Carafe with royal monogram and bat motifs

Artist

Artist Unknown, China, Jingdezhen kiln

Physical Description

It is a porcelain carafe with blue underglazing, with design of stylized acronym of King Rama V of Thailand (1868-1910), his name and reign in medallions with bat motifs and ribbons, and flower and leaf scrolls.

Century

Early 20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1874

Accession Number

2005/1.461A&B

Medium and Support

porcelain with blue underglaze painting

relevance

rank 20.43216

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Title

Sancai tomb guardian (one of a pair w/2004/2.132.1) with human face

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Earthenware ceramic figure with tri-color glaze (in amber, cream and green) in the form of a creature with a human face

Century

7th-8th century

Object Creation Date

circa 675-750

Accession Number

2004/2.132.2

Medium and Support

earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze

relevance

rank 18.65255

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