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- Title
- Blue-and-white bowl with designs of fish and plants, Kangxi era mark
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1982/1.214
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with blue underglaze painting
- relevance
- rank 3.04258
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- asia (continent)
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- design elements
- geographic and political locations
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- patterns (design elements)
- patterns by specific type
- vessels
- Title
- Ganesha, seated on a double lotus throne
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java
- Physical Description
- Ganesha is shown here seated on a double lotus throne, in a royal posture with the soles of his feet together. He has four arms, and holds two of his attributes in the rear pair: an ax and a rosary. His trunk curls down across his rotund belly to reach for a bowl of sweets that rests in his left forward arm. The cobra slung across his shoulder, now hard to make out because of the centuries of wear of the stone, indicates Ganesha's lineage as the son of the Shiva, in his aspect as the great ascetic. Almost 27 inches high, this sculpture of the Hindu god Ganesha is carved of andesite, a volcanic stone common to the island of Java in Indonesia. Andesite is a soft stone and erodes easily, which is why the carving is no longer crisp.
- Century
- 11th century
- Object Creation Date
- 11th century
- Accession Number
- 1957/2.56
- Medium and Support
- andesite (volcanic stone)
- relevance
- rank 3.04237
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- descriptors
- inorganic material
- mammals
- materials
- materials by composition
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- rock
- rock by form
- Title
- Figure and Animal Studies
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Physical Description
- The artist sketches two men whispering to each other on the left-hand side of the drawing. Both of them have swords tucked into their belt, and the man on the left carries his belongings in a wrapping cloth (furoshiki). There are also sketches of several animals facing different directions. On the right-hand edge, there is a upside-down sketch of a woman dressed in kimono.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1760-1849
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- mid 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.140
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.04237
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- costume
- costume by form
- edged weapons
- main garments
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- weapons and ammunition
- Title
- Varahi
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nandu, Kanchipuran
- Physical Description
- Varahi has a crowned boar’s head on a woman’s body. She sits with her ankles crosses and originally had four arms, the back two have broken away as has the front right hand which had probably been held up in a reassuring gesture. Her left from hand is held down at her left knee with the palm held facing out in a gesture of giving. Her body is softly modeled with a narrow waist and full breasts. She wears jewelry that is in sharp but low relief and includes a series of necklaces forming a collar of decoration and a longer one that falls between her breasts which suggests the sacred thread extending down to her waist at her right. She is naked from the waist up and the lower garment is merely suggested by the heavier folds at the waist. Her head is tilted and her chin/snout had jutted out to the left, but the lower snout is broken away. She wears a conical crown that accents the long diagonal of her face. Originally there was an arch behind the image which would have supported her back arms, so the image would have appeared denser, with only the cut away empty space to the sides of her waist.
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa early 10th century
- Accession Number
- 1960/1.113
- Medium and Support
- granite
- relevance
- rank 3.04237
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- descriptors
- inorganic material
- mammals
- materials
- materials by composition
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- rock
- rock by form
- Title
- Puppet in the form of a bird
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.177
- Medium and Support
- carved wood, paint, cloth and synthetic hair
- relevance
- rank 3.03037
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- animals and creatures
- functions
- functions (activities)
- functions by specific context
- how we live
- objects we use
- people and culture
- recreational artifacts
- recreational artifacts for noncompetitive activities
- social functions
- the natural world
- Title
- Mukha-Linga, Cobra head
- 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
- 1981/2.52C
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 3.03037
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- hinduism
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- reptiles
- reptiles and amphibians
- snakes
- the natural world
- Title
- Star-shaped Tile with cheetah among foliage
- Artist
- Iran, Kashan
- Physical Description
- A tile in the shape of a an 8 pointed star with animal depiction.
- Century
- 13th century
- Object Creation Date
- mid 13th century - mid 14th century
- Accession Number
- 1957/1.73
- Medium and Support
- molded fritware, blue and turquoise underglaze, overglaze copper lustre painting
- relevance
- rank 3.02904
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- attributes and properties
- attributes and properties by specific type
- descriptors
- form attributes
- geographic and political locations
- mammals
- materials
- materials by origin
- middle east (general region)
- people and culture
- plant material
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- shape
- Title
- Easter Dress
- Artist
- Sally Mann
- Physical Description
- Girl standing in a field holding on to the sides of her bright white dress.
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1951
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1988; printed 1990
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.158
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.02782
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- costume
- costume by form
- events
- groups of people
- holidays
- kinship groups
- main garments
- mammals
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by family relationship
- people by gender
- religious holidays
- social groups
- Title
- Imari bowl with blue-and-white lion and peony center, festival drums and flowers on sides
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.16
- Medium and Support
- Porcelain, blue underglaze and enamel overglaze
- relevance
- rank 3.02628
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- buildings and the land
- containers
- containers by form
- landscapes (environments)
- mammals
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- shrubs
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vessels
- woody plants
- Title
- Grasshopper
- Artist
- Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)
- Physical Description
- The painting depicts a grasshopper resting on the leaves. The artist signed his pen name, A-chih, and sealed his pen names, Pai-shih mountain hermit, and Pai-shih hermit.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1864 - 1957)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920-1935
- Accession Number
- 1949/1.201
- Medium and Support
- ink on rice paper
- relevance
- rank 3.02628
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- biological components
- buildings and the land
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- insects
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- plant components
- settlements and landscapes
- trees (components)
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- Title
- Duck and Lotus
- Artist
- Gao Qipei (Kao Ch'i-p'ei)
- Physical Description
- In this large scroll Gao depicts a duck swimming among aquatic plants in the shade of a cluster of lotus.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1660-1734
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1690-1734
- Accession Number
- 1961/1.162
- Medium and Support
- ink and color on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.02515
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- birds
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- design elements
- inorganic material
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by composition
- motifs
- natural landscapes
- plant-derived motifs
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- Title
- Cho (Butterflies)
- Artist
- Nakayama Tadashi
- Physical Description
- A color print of a young girls facing into the wind. Two buterflies take up the majority of the right side of the painting.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1927
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1965
- Accession Number
- 2011/2.14
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.01858
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- insects
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- prints
- prints by process or technique
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Kiiroi cho to shojo (Yellow Butterfly and Girl)
- Artist
- Nakayama Tadashi
- Physical Description
- A color print of a girl and a butterfly. The girl's face is turned towards the butterfly, whose wings are divided into four sections.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1927
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1970
- Accession Number
- 2011/2.17
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.01858
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- insects
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- prints
- prints by process or technique
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Chiheisen no cho (Butterflies Above the Horizon)
- Artist
- Nakayama Tadashi
- Physical Description
- Color print of a girl and two butterflies.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1927
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1971
- Accession Number
- 2011/2.19
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.01858
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- insects
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- prints
- prints by process or technique
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Hana ni natta cho (Butterfly Which Became a Flower)
- Artist
- Nakayama Tadashi
- Physical Description
- A color print of a butterfly becoming a red and purple violet. A young girl's face watches the flower.
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1927
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1969
- Accession Number
- 2011/2.15
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.01858
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- insects
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- prints
- prints by process or technique
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Flattened Bottle with Lion-head and Turle Lugs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- Unglazed gray stoneware flattened bottle with two lion-head lugs near teh upper corners, and two turtle shaped lugs on the bottom.
- Century
- 10th-11th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century - 11th century
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.210
- Medium and Support
- unglazed stoneware with appliqued decoration
- relevance
- rank 3.01277
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- bottles
- bottles by form
- bottles by function
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- mammals
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- reptiles
- vessels
- Title
- Bird's Nest and Eggs
- Artist
- Keith Carter
- Physical Description
- Two hands holding a small birds nest with four eggs inside.
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1948
- Object Creation Date
- 1992
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.109
- Medium and Support
- toned gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.01277
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- people and culture
- philosophical concepts
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- Title
- Black Horse, All Saints Bay, Itaparica, Brazil
- Artist
- Kristin Capp
- Physical Description
- A black horse walking on water, slightly cloudy sky above.
- Object Creation Date
- 2004
- Accession Number
- 2014/2.363
- Medium and Support
- archival pigment print on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.01264
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- landscapes (environments)
- mammals
- marine bodies
- natural landscapes
- settlements and landscapes
- Title
- Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix
- Artist Life Dates
- 1798-1863
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1840
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.75
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 3.01259
- Secondary Keywords
- allegory and literature
- animals
- animals and creatures
- descriptors
- design elements
- mammals
- motifs
- natural element motifs
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by gender
- religious figures
- reptiles
- reptiles and amphibians
- the natural world
- Title
- Bodhisattva Mañjusri (J. Monju Bosatsu), seated on a lion
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 15th century
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.207
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink, color and gold on silk
- relevance
- rank 3.01203
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- buddhist doctrinal concepts
- conditions and effects
- descriptors
- design elements
- doctrinal concepts
- mammals
- motifs
- people and culture
- plant-derived motifs
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- religious concepts
- Title
- Bird on a branch
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- A bird (probably a sparrow) perches among peach blossoms, while singing to welcome the spring.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1420 - circa 1435
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.353
- Medium and Support
- album leaf, ink and colors on silk
- relevance
- rank 3.00927
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- buildings and the land
- herbaceous plants
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- Title
- Camel
- Artist
- Utagawa Kuniyasu
- Physical Description
- This double-leaf print depicts two camels and accompanying foreign trainers or performers in fringed clothing, with ballooning pants and dark boots. Some of the performers play instruments, while others tend to the camels. Above both pages is writing by calligrapher Santô Kyôden describing the camels and their tour of Japan around 1821.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1794-1832
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1824?
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.91
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.00347
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- asian
- east asian
- japanese
- japanese printmaking styles
- japanese styles
- mammals
- people and culture
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- Title
- Camel
- Artist
- Utagawa Kuniyasu
- Physical Description
- This double-leaf print depicts two camels and accompanying foreign trainers or performers in fringed clothing, with ballooning pants and dark boots. Some of the performers play instruments, while others tend to the camels. Above both pages is writing by calligrapher Santô Kyôden describing the camels and their tour of Japan around 1821.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1794-1832
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1824
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.90
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 3.00347
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- asian
- east asian
- japanese
- japanese printmaking styles
- japanese styles
- mammals
- people and culture
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- Title
- Whistle in the form of a bird
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 8th century
- Object Creation Date
- 8th century
- Accession Number
- 1995/1.52
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with brown glaze
- relevance
- rank 3.00193
- Secondary Keywords
- aerophones
- animals and creatures
- duct flutes
- flutes (aerophones)
- objects we use
- recreational artifacts
- recreational artifacts for noncompetitive activities
- sound devices
- sound devices by acoustical characteristics
- Title
- Storage jar with inlaid floral designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- It has a wide mouth and a shape which flared out to a generously-sized shoulder, then tapers to a slim lower body. It is a storage jar inlaid chrysanthemum, cloud and crane design.
- Object Creation Date
- 918-1392
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.33
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with inlaid white and black slip under celadon glaze
- relevance
- rank 3.00013
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- birds
- buildings and the land
- flowers (plants)
- herbaceous plants
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- Title
- Save the Products of the Land - Eat More Fish - The Feed Themselves
- Artist
- Charles Livingston Bull
- Physical Description
- Text: Save the products of the land - Eat more fish - they feed themselves. United States Food Administration
- Artist Life Dates
- 1874-1932
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1917
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.14
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.99823
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- animals and creatures
- armed conflicts
- declaratory and advertising artifacts
- events
- how we live
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- modern and contemporary art
- objects we use
- people and culture
- text-based art
- the natural world
- war
- waterscapes
- world wars
- Title
- I Think Continuously of Those Who Were Truly Great
- Artist
- Ben Shahn
- Physical Description
- A black and white silkscreen lettering of a dove with its right wing outstretched, neck turned. The bird's beak is a brilliant shade of orange. There is a poem titled, "I Think Continuously of Those Who Were Truly Great." below the dove, and names of various people above the dove. The poem was written by Stephen Spender.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1898-1969
- Object Creation Date
- 1965
- Accession Number
- 2011/1.100
- Medium and Support
- white and black silkscreen lettering and watercolor wash on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.99236
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- birds
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- genres in the arts
- image-making processes and techniques
- literary, oral and motion picture genres
- people and culture
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- writing (processes)
- Title
- Door Picture: Trader and Urban Worker
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- In this image a worker and peasant face one another, each with his own horse carrying the fruits of his labor. The text reads "Mutual aid between the cities and the countryside."
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1948
- Accession Number
- 2006/2.48.1-2
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.99135
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- art genres
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- mammals
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- prints
- prints by function
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Fish and Coral
- Artist
- Gary Moore
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1994
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.167
- Medium and Support
- ebony
- relevance
- rank 2.98301
- Secondary Keywords
- relation to water
- animals and creatures
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- islands
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by position
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by origin
- natural landscapes
- plant material
- settlements and landscapes
- wood and wood products
- Title
- Indian Terracottas
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- A terracotta figure of a monkey.
- Object Creation Date
- n. d.
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.141
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 2.97947
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- descriptors
- mammals
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- sculpture
- sculpture by material
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- The Rooster Protects the House from Suzhou
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Polychrome woodblock print of a rooster holding a praying mantis in its mouth with four characters at top center framed by a floral scrolling border
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2006/2.47
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print mounted on stiff board with silk borders
- relevance
- rank 2.97947
- Secondary Keywords
- transfer method
- animals and creatures
- birds
- objects we use
- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
- relief prints
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Kinkaku (Golden Pavilion)
- Artist
- Nakayama Tadashi
- Physical Description
- There is a big golden pavilion in the middle of the background. And there are two butterflies in the printing, one on the bottom left, and one sitting on the girl's hair.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1927
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1976
- Accession Number
- 2011/2.34
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.97647
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- buildings and the land
- garden structures
- insects
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- single built works
- single built works by location or context
- single built works by specific type
- Title
- Fish
- Artist
- Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)
- Physical Description
- The painting depicts three fishes below a calligraphic poem. The poem goes: "I once painted Three Fish and inscribed it: painting is what I did in the time remaining after work, poetry in the time remaining after sleep, and calligraphy in the time remaining after carving. This is what I call the three remaining." (in Chinese, "fish" and "remaining" are pronounced the same)
- Artist Life Dates
- 1864-1957
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1920-1949
- Accession Number
- 1949/1.194
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.97218
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- descriptors
- document genres
- document genres by form
- document genres for literary works
- image-making processes and techniques
- information forms
- objects we use
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- writing (processes)
- Title
- Changsha ware bird-shaped water dropper
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 9th century
- Object Creation Date
- 9th century
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.311
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with brown iron glaze
- relevance
- rank 2.97062
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- writing (processes)
- Title
- Glass snuff bottle woth horse and trees
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1780-1880
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.143
- Medium and Support
- glass and lapis lazuli
- relevance
- rank 2.97062
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for serving and consuming food
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- culinary containers
- drinking vessels
- mammals
- objects we use
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- Title
- Equestrian Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.31
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 2.96301
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- art genres
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- mammals
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
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- Title
- Lion attacking a quadruped (architectural fragment)
- Artist
- India, Madhya Pradesh, Mathura
- Physical Description
- A terracotta block, probably originally part of a frieze around a building, with molded and incised design.
- Century
- 3rd-4th century
- Object Creation Date
- 3rd century - 4th century
- Accession Number
- 1994/1.77
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 2.95916
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- descriptors
- mammals
- object genres
- object genres by form
- object-making processes and techniques
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- sculpture techniques
- Title
- Maebyeong (wine storage jar) with design cranes, butterflies, & stylized clouds
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Korea
- Physical Description
- The vase has a slightly outward-turned rim and a short neck. The elegantly-shaped bottle flares out to a broad shoulder, then tapers gradually to a slim waist before flaring out once more at the base. The shoulder, mid-belly and base of the vase are decorated with black and white clay-inlaid cloud, crane and butterfly motifs.
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.80
- Medium and Support
- Stoneware with inlaid with white and black slip under celadon glaze
- relevance
- rank 2.95527
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- associated concepts
- birds
- containers
- containers by form
- earth sciences concepts
- insects
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- scientific concepts
- vessels
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- Title
- Solitary Bird Perched on a Banana Plant
- Artist
- Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)
- Physical Description
- This painting depicts a solitary bird perched on a tropical banana plant. There are inscriptions and signature of the artist on the upper left-hand corner: "A farewell gift for Mr. Katsuizumi, as he goes south. Baishi."
- Artist Life Dates
- (1864 - 1957)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 1949/1.196
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.95370
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- buildings and the land
- deciduous trees
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- trees
- trees by leaf life
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- Title
- Pig
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Jade carved horizontally in the shape of a pig.
- Object Creation Date
- 206 BCE - 220 CE
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.112
- Medium and Support
- jade
- relevance
- rank 2.95008
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
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- mammals
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- prints
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- Title
- Plate Inscribed with Flying Figure of Hanuman Holding a Flag, Mace and Spear
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
- Physical Description
- Hanuman is depicted with a human body and a monkey head. The image is incised on the plate and his body is entirely textured with characters in the devanagari script. Often merely the letter ‘r’ designating the god Rama with whom he is associated. He is in a striding posture and there are a number of sections of text scattered around the image. At his feet is a human figure walking in the opposite direction. He holds a double flag consisting of two triangular shapes facing him in his left hand along with a thin club. One appears to emanating from his mouth? His right hand is lifted with an arrow above it and his tail curves behind him. There is also a small altar depicting the two feet of Rama in the area between his outstretched leg and the end of a scarf wrapped around his body.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.89
- Medium and Support
- copper
- relevance
- rank 2.94699
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- clubs (weapons)
- mammals
- named gods and goddesses
- objects
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- percussive weapons
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- spears
- subject matter
- weaponry
- weapons
- weapons and ammunition
- Title
- Ivory snuff bottle with design of peonies and mandarin ducks
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1875-1925
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.77
- Medium and Support
- ivory with green and white jadeite stopper
- relevance
- rank 2.94441
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- birds
- buildings and the land
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for personal use
- containers for smoking and tobacco use
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- shrubs
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- Title
- Ashtray with freestanding rabbit
- Artist
- René Lalique
- Physical Description
- Clear glass saucer with milky, iridescent free-standing form in the center shaped like a rabbit.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1860 - 1945)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1919-1930
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.229
- Medium and Support
- glass
- relevance
- rank 2.94172
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- animals and creatures
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- mammals
- modern and contemporary art
- objects we use
- the natural world
- vessels
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- Title
- One of two small blue-and-white jarlets, decorated with lions frolicking among clouds
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1600-1640s
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.12
- Medium and Support
- porcelain with blue underglaze painting
- relevance
- rank 2.94172
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- earth sciences concepts
- mammals
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- scientific concepts
- vessels
- weather and related phenomena
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- Title
- Obidome (obi brooch) in shape of dancing lion
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Metal lion with flowing mane and tail. Gold inlaid spits decorate his body and color his eyes. The lion's head is thrown impossibly backwards, allowing a view of the head as if from above. The golden eyes look upwards.
- Century
- Second half of 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950-1975
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.368
- Medium and Support
- metal with gold inlay
- relevance
- rank 2.94122
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories worn
- costume by form
- jewelry
- jewelry by location
- jewelry worn on costume
- main garments
- mammals
- objects we use
- pins (jewelry)
- Title
- Inkwell made of brass paris round, lion's head, beaded sides, floral top
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- Golden color inwell made with brass and metal has a round body; and a lid cover decorated with craftings of flower and a lion's head.
- Object Creation Date
- 1875-1975
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.287
- Medium and Support
- metal, plastic
- relevance
- rank 2.94074
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for writing equipment
- descriptors
- inorganic material
- mammals
- materials
- materials by composition
- metal
- metal and metal products
- metalwork
- object genres
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- objects we use
- Title
- Achilles and Hector
- Artist
- Hans Sebald Beham
- Physical Description
- This engraving depicts a frieze-like arrangement of figures in horizontal format. Two central figures are engaged in a duel on horseback. Several other nude male figures are engaged in battle throughout the composition. The artist's monogram is placed in the upper left corner of the image.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1500-1550
- Object Creation Date
- 1518-1530
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.195
- Medium and Support
- engraving on medium laid paper
- relevance
- rank 2.94044
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- armed conflicts
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- events
- figures (representations)
- genres in the arts
- literary, oral and motion picture genres
- mammals
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- Title
- St. Felix of Valois
- Artist
- Gaspar Miguel de Berrío
- Physical Description
- A bearded man with a halo and wearing ecclesiastical vestments appears rapt in ecstasy in the upper third of this painting. He stands on a cloud beneath an elaborate baldachin with his eyes turned upward. A stag with a cross between its antlers lies at his feet on the figure's right while a putto sits at his left. Two more putti hover to the left and right of the man, holding a red curtain behind him. This scene is surrounded on three sides by dense painted decoration composed primarily of vegetal motifs, which is complemented by the exuberant scrolling foliage and fish scale patterns of the gilded frame. A cartouche bearing a Latin inscription identifying the standing figure is located near the bottom of the painted surface.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1706 - after 1761
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1735
- Accession Number
- 2002/1.157
- Medium and Support
- oil on panel
- relevance
- rank 2.94021
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- descriptors
- design elements
- edging and surfacing patterns
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- religions and religious concepts
- scrollwork
- south america (continent)
- Title
- Stool with traditional spider motif
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Bamoun
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.313
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 2.92964
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- animals and creatures
- arthropods
- descriptors
- furnishings
- furnishings by form or function
- furniture by form or function
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- single seating furniture
- the natural world
- Title
- Caparisoned horse
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Ceramic figure of a horse standing on a thin ceramic base, which a high-arched neck and a vertical head; large saddle with tassels; traces of orange-ochre, pink red and white pigments
- Century
- 6th century
- Object Creation Date
- 534-550
- Accession Number
- 1950/2.12
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with slip and painted decoration
- relevance
- rank 2.92889
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- art genres
- artistic concepts
- asia (continent)
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- geographic and political locations
- mammals
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- people and culture
- sculpture
- sculpture by function
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique