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Title

Imari bowl with green dragon center

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

late 19th century

Accession Number

2002/2.15

Medium and Support

porcelain with enamel overglaze painting

relevance

rank 9.79298

Primary Keywords

bowls (vessels)

dragons

Title

Flying Dragon

Artist

Georges Rouault

Physical Description

This black and white print depicts a creature with an alligator-like open jaw with three sharp teeth. The creature takes up most of the image and appears to be floating in space. A black ground with a suggestion of a small plant appears at the lower edge of the composition.

Artist Life Dates

1871-1958

Object Creation Date

1928

Accession Number

2012/2.186

Medium and Support

etching, aquatint and roulette on heavy laid paper

relevance

rank 9.79298

Primary Keywords

dragons

eyes

mouths

Title

Spoon with dragon handle

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Object Creation Date

206 BCE - 220 CE

Accession Number

1990/1.261

Medium and Support

earthenware with green lead glaze

relevance

rank 9.68532

Primary Keywords

dragons

spoons for serving food

Title

Dragon pendant

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Highly stylized depiction of dragon design with tiger head, lower right portion broken off

Century

13th-11th century BCE

Object Creation Date

circa 1300 BCE - circa 1100 BCE

Accession Number

1960/2.113

Medium and Support

dark brown hard stone with white calcification

relevance

rank 9.68532

Primary Keywords

dragons

pendant (jewelry)

stone

Title

Coral ornamental snuff bottle with dragons among clouds

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1912-1949

Accession Number

1980/2.52

Medium and Support

coral

relevance

rank 9.68532

Primary Keywords

clouds

dragons

snuff bottle

Title

Blue-and-white jar with dragon-and-cloud design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Large porcelain jar decorated with cobalt pigment under colorless glaze. Repeating clouds border the rim of the jar, while a dragon head and feet are depicted on the main body below. Two blue bands separate the design from the white base below, balancing the rim and bottom portion of the jar. The very tip and base of the piece are also marked with blue bands.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2004/1.282

Medium and Support

porcelain with cobalt pigment under colorless glaze

relevance

rank 9.57999

Primary Keywords

ceramics

dragons

jar

porcelain, opaque

Title

Blue-and-white square incense burner

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1844

Accession Number

1985/2.47

Medium and Support

porcelain with blue underglaze painting

relevance

rank 9.57999

Primary Keywords

dragons

incense burners

porcelain, opaque

Title

Incense burner with openwork lid

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1997/1.233A&B

Medium and Support

iron with gold and silver inlay and gilt

relevance

rank 9.57999

Primary Keywords

dragons

flowers (plants)

incense burners

Title

Jar with abstract dragon design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Round porcelain jar with iron pigment under colorless glaze. An abstract dragon spirals around and up the body of the piece, marked by quick brushstrokes indicating scales and unrestrained swirls indicating features such as its head and feet. A slight valley in the contour of the jar marks where two separately thrown pieces were joined together.

The foot is rather small for the size of the body.

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

17th century

Accession Number

1961/2.88

Medium and Support

porcelain with iron pigment under colorless glaze

relevance

rank 9.57999

Primary Keywords

ceramics

dragons

jar

porcelain, opaque

Title

Everything You Wish in the Nine Heavens: Gods of Wealth Increase Good Fortune

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Two male figures wearing official robes and hats, sit side by side on thrones. The one on the right holds a shoe-shaped ingot and a scepter. The god on the left holds only a shoe-shaped ingot. In front of them is basin filled with coins and rarities such as jewels, branches of coral and shining ingots. On the right, a smaller male figure holds a horse on a tray while his counter part on the left holds a brush and a scroll. At the top is a sinuous dragon whose spine is composed of coins and above him is a horse bearing a stack of shoe-shaped ingots.

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

2006/2.49

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 9.47693

Primary Keywords

coins

dragons

gods

horse

jewels

scepter

Title

Female Buddhist Deity?

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

14th-15th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1350-1450

Accession Number

1961/2.54

Medium and Support

wall painting (fragment): ink and color on plaster

relevance

rank 9.37607

Primary Keywords

buddhism

dragons

flames

goddesses

mural painting

swords

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 9.37607

Primary Keywords

bells (idiophones)

bronze (metal)

dragons

lions

temple

Title

Jason Sowing the Dragon's Teeth

Artist

Artist Unknown, Italy or France

Physical Description

A group of armed men struggles in a landscape while a helmeted female figure hovers on a cloud above them and points to a distant city that lies across an expanse of water. A man at the left with a green cuirass and cloth knotted about his waist and neck stands apart from the combatants and looks up toward the gesturing woman. Behind him appears a row of sword-wielding men locked in combat, with several casualties lying at their feet. On a hillock in the background a pair of oxen, an orange-gold colored sheep, and a winged dragon may be discerned.

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1557-1600

Accession Number

1978/2.38

Medium and Support

tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) with underglaze painting

relevance

rank 9.27733

Primary Keywords

battles

dragons

maiolica

mythology (literary genre)

oxen

sheep

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

relevance

rank 9.27733

Primary Keywords

boxes (containers)

dragons

lacquer

shellwork

wood (plant material)

Title

Stove God and Wife with Calendar

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

This print is typical, depicting the Stove God and his wife with halos and elegant clothing. Before them is a table with common worship instruments, including candles, an incense burner, and flowers. Standing in the bottom corners are two officials, and between them a container of jewels. The jewels are flanked by a dog and rooster; animals thought to be symbols of domesticity with auspicious connotations. Above the scene a calendar for the year 1949 is framed by an auspicious dragon motif.

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1948

Accession Number

1989/2.116

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 9.18064

Primary Keywords

calendar

candles and candleholders

dragons

flowers

gods

incense burners

wife

Title

Rubbing of Journey of the Soul to the Paradise of the Queen Mother of the West (2000/2.1) - Front

Artist

Bo Yang

Physical Description

Rubbing of limestone slab carved bas-relief with six registers. The lower register depicts a chariot procession above fish-inhabited waters. The central three registers depict figures carrying out funerary rites. The top register shows a winged creature with a human face flanked by two writhing dragons and other animals, including two rabbits and a nine-tailed fox.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1961

Century

21st century

Object Creation Date

2008

Accession Number

2008/1.154.1

Medium and Support

ink on paper

relevance

rank 8.99320

Primary Keywords

chariot (ancient vehicle)

dragons

fish

fox

moon

murals

rabbits

rubbings

water

Title

Conch trumpet, in an embossed silver mount, inlaid with lapis lazuli, turquoise and coral

Artist

Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal

Physical Description

An elaborately decorated conch shell trumpet, with extensions and a side chamber made from silver, inlaid with other precious metals and semi-precious stones of turquoise, lapiz lazuli, and mountain coral.

Century

9th-20th century

Object Creation Date

800-1900

Accession Number

1982/2.42A

Medium and Support

conch shell, silver, vermeil, lapis lazuli, and coral

relevance

rank 8.99320

Primary Keywords

buddhism

conch (shell)

deer

deity

dragons

elephants

himalayan

musical instruments

phoenix

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

relevance

rank 8.90232

Primary Keywords

ceramics

chicken

china (nation)

dragons

eastern jin

stoneware

vessel

vessels for serving drinks

Title

Architectural ceiling boss with two dragons, probably from the Church of St. Andrews at Cullompton

Artist

Artist Unknown, England

Physical Description

Two rampant dragons with open wings, wide flared tails and red-painted eyes stand facing one another with a large plant form held between them.

Century

15th Century

Object Creation Date

circa 1430

Accession Number

1968/2.46

Medium and Support

wood with red polychrome

relevance

rank 8.90232

Primary Keywords

bosses

carvings

cullompton (inhabited place)

dragons

vaults (structural elements)

wood (sculpture by material)

Title

Dragons

Artist

Robert W. Chatelain

Physical Description

wood and purple resin vase with gold leaf

Artist Life Dates

born 1945

Century

late 20th century

Object Creation Date

1997

Accession Number

2002/2.126

Medium and Support

black cherry burl, violet pigmented epxoy resin and gold inlay

relevance

rank 8.53760

Primary Keywords

dragons

vessels

wood (plant material)

woodworking and woodworking processes and techniques

Title

Journey of the Soul to the Paradise of the Queen Mother of the West

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Limestone slab carved bas-relief with six registers. The lower register depicts a chariot procession above fish-inhabited waters. The central three registers depict figures carrying out funerary rites. The top register shows a winged creature with a human face flanked by two writhing dragons and other animals, including two rabbits and a nine-tailed fox.

Century

2nd century

Object Creation Date

2nd century

Accession Number

2000/2.1

Medium and Support

carved limestone slab

relevance

rank 8.39341

Primary Keywords

chariot (ancient vehicle)

dragons

fish

fox

funerary object

moon

rabbits

relief

ricing sticks

sculpture

shrines

stone

tomb

water

Title

Suiten kyo (Sutra of Varuna, Deity of the Waters)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

This is a long horizontal scroll with several calligraphic inscriptions on the right portion of the paper. On the left are 3 figural scenes. The one closest to the writing shows a male figure wearing a large headdress seated in the lotus position within a circle. Next there is a figure with four arms who stands on the back of a dragon. Two people stand on either side- one a short blue-skinned man who holds a bowl and the other a smaller figure who holds a brush and paper. The third scene shows a male figure, seated in the lotus position, who holds a sword, a wheel, a brush and paper in his four hands.

Century

14th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1300-1335

Accession Number

1964/2.104

Medium and Support

handscroll, ink and color on paper

relevance

rank 7.98667

Primary Keywords

buddhism

calligraphy

deity

dragon

dragons

figures

figures (representations)

handscroll

handscrolls

japan

japan (nation)

Title

The Labors of Hercules: The Dragon of the Garden of the Hesperides (one of the s

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist Life Dates

1502- circa 1561

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1550

Accession Number

1956/1.68

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

relevance

rank 7.89943

Primary Keywords

buildings

clubs (weapons)

dragon

dragons

fighting

hercules

house

lame

monsters

nudes

rocks

standing

tower

towers (building divisions)

towers (single built works)

trees