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Title

Large storage jar with gourd design

Artist

Artist Unknown, China, Majiayao Culture

Physical Description

This pot has a narrow, cylindrical neck, abruptly giving way to a rounded upper half, tapering gently to a flat bottom, with two small lugs (ring handles) at the waist. Painted decoration is confined to the upper half, perhaps because these pots were set into the earth to keep them upright. The painted designs evoke fish nets and swirling eddies of water.

Artist Life Dates

2600 BCE - 2300 BCE

Century

25th-24th century BCE

Object Creation Date

2600 BCE - 2300 BCE

Accession Number

1993/1.46

Medium and Support

red earthenware with black slip decoration

relevance

rank 15.97694

Secondary Keywords

ceremonial containers

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Title

Sarcophogi, Termessos, Turkey

Artist

Marilyn Bridges

Physical Description

A broken sarcohpogi in Termessos, Turkey.

Artist Life Dates

American, born 1957

Object Creation Date

2004

Accession Number

2012/2.62

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 11.87712

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Jewish Funeral, Jerusalem, Israel

Artist

Leonard Freed

Physical Description

A group of Hassidic men standing over a body covered in a cloth. There are windows behind them.

Object Creation Date

1972

Accession Number

2014/2.332

Medium and Support

vintage gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 11.54371

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Title

Leaf from a book of hours with a funeral mass

Artist

Gold Scrolls Group

Physical Description

This miniature painting depicts a group of male figures gathered around a coffin draped with a blue cloth. Two pairs of candles set on tall candlesticks are placed at the head and foot of the coffin. To the left of the coffin stand four mourners wearing long gray robes with hoods. Facing them from the other side of the coffin are three tonsured clergymen dressed in white, who look at an open book placed before them. The group stands upon a green tiled floor next to a pink wall. The background is painted red and decorated with an exuberant pattern of gold scrolling foliage motifs.

Artist Life Dates

active circa 1415-1450

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1415-1455

Accession Number

1993/2.8

Medium and Support

ink, tempera, gold, and silver alloy on parchment

relevance

rank 10.05946

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Hunping (spirit jar)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Jar with grey-green celadon glaze; top half of vessel is filled with an assortment of figures, birds, and architectural elements in a tiered arrangement.

Century

3rd century

Object Creation Date

3rd century

Accession Number

2000/1.39

Medium and Support

stoneware with celadon glaze

relevance

rank 9.97198

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Study for a Chapel in Vienna

Artist

Andrea Pozzo

Physical Description

This study depicts a rectangular chapel with the side walls bent outward at an angle in order to provide a clearer view of the decoration. The chapel design centers upon a sarcophagus placed beneath a painted altarpiece of the Virgin and Child, which are both set within a semicircular architectural projection that extends dynamically from the wall. On the left the pair of angels that support a large oval-shaped painting reach vigorously outward, their wings overlapping the pilasters. On the right appears another sarcophagus surmounted by a pair of putti. Leaning out from the oval niche above the sarcophagus is a female half-figure—probably a portrait of the deceased—making a gesture of devotion toward the altar.

Artist Life Dates

1642-1709

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1662-1709

Accession Number

1960/2.124

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 9.40128

Secondary Keywords

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