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- Title
- Ivory figure of scholar (snuff bottle?)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920-1950
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.85
- Medium and Support
- ivory with polychrome decoration
- relevance
- rank 9.20493
- Primary Keywords
- ivory
- scholars
- Title
- Figure with Scroll (netsuke?)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1957/1.22
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 9.10260
- Primary Keywords
- ivory carvings
- netsuke
- Title
- Tusk Carving with Stand
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African
- Physical Description
- An ivory tusk carving with images of people on it. Some of the people have their hands in a praying position.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2010/2.1
- Medium and Support
- Ivory
- relevance
- rank 9.10260
- Primary Keywords
- carving
- ivory carvings
- Title
- Carved Elephant Tusk
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Burma
- Century
- 19th-early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - early 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.459
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 9.10260
- Primary Keywords
- carvings
- elephant
- ivory
- Title
- Letter Opener
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1910
- Accession Number
- 1984/2.55
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 9.00252
- Primary Keywords
- ivories
- ivory
- letter openers
- Title
- Rock crystal snuff bottle with Chinese text and deity on lotus blossum
- Artist
- Yeh Chungsan
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1917
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.148
- Medium and Support
- rock crystal, coral, ivory
- relevance
- rank 9.00252
- Primary Keywords
- ivory
- lotus
- snuff bottle
- Title
- Ivory snuff spatula
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1850-1925
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.158
- Medium and Support
- ivory and teakwood
- relevance
- rank 9.00252
- Primary Keywords
- ivory
- snuff bottle
- utensil
- Title
- Ivory snuff bottle with landscape
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1880-1930
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.75
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 9.00252
- Primary Keywords
- ivory
- landscape
- snuff bottle
- Title
- Ivory snuff bottle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1825-1900
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.63
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 9.00252
- Primary Keywords
- ivory
- people
- snuff bottle
- Title
- Netsuke of dancing islander with ball
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- Late 18th-Early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1775-1825
- Accession Number
- 1997/2.19
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 9.00252
- Primary Keywords
- dancing
- ivory carvings
- netsuke
- Title
- Scepter finial in the form of a man's head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kusu
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.356
- Medium and Support
- carved ivory
- relevance
- rank 9.00252
- Primary Keywords
- carvings, ivory
- head
- scepters
- Title
- Casket
- Artist
- Anonymous Siculo-Arabic (Central Italy, Southern Italy, or Sicily)?
- Century
- 13th-14th century
- Object Creation Date
- 13th century - 14th century
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.35
- Medium and Support
- ivory, with later silver mounts; traces of decoration
- relevance
- rank 9.00252
- Primary Keywords
- animals
- boxes (containers)
- ivory
- Title
- Ivory snuff bottle in the shape of a citron
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1912-1949
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.70
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 9.00252
- Primary Keywords
- citron
- ivory
- snuff bottle
- Title
- Ivory snuff bottle in the shape of seashell and fish
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1912-1949
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.68
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.90462
- Primary Keywords
- fish
- ivory
- shells
- snuff bottle
- Title
- Top Hat and Umbrella Inkwell, metal with cane, ivory handle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- A metal inkwell in the shape of a black tophat. A pen shaped like a cane is included. The handle of the cane is ivory.
- Object Creation Date
- 1875-1975
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.272
- Medium and Support
- metal, ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.90462
- Primary Keywords
- cane
- inkwell
- ivory
- top hat
- Title
- Hunter's Whistle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 1987/2.47
- Medium and Support
- carved ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.90462
- Primary Keywords
- head
- hunting
- ivories
- ivory
- whistles
- Title
- Carved ivory ball with interlaced monkeys (okimono)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900-1940
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.157
- Medium and Support
- ivory with red glass stopper in silver collar
- relevance
- rank 8.90462
- Primary Keywords
- ivory
- monkeys
- spheres (geometric figures)
- Title
- Ivory snuff bottle in the shape of corn
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1890-1930
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.74
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.90462
- Primary Keywords
- insects
- ivory
- snuff bottle
- vegetable
- Title
- Pear-shaped ivory snuff bottle with depiction of people
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1912-1949
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.64
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.80883
- Primary Keywords
- ivory
- pear-shaped
- people
- snuff bottle
- Title
- Ivory snuff bottle in the shape of corn
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1912-1949
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.72
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.80883
- Primary Keywords
- foliage
- insects
- ivory
- snuff bottle
- vegetable
- Title
- Inro (four-case medicine box), ojime, and netsuke of Hanshan?
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.103
- Medium and Support
- lacquer on wood with ivory ojime and netsuke
- relevance
- rank 8.80883
- Primary Keywords
- boxes (containers)
- foliage
- ivory carvings
- netsuke
- Title
- "Hôki" (Treasure Tortoise): Seto ware tea caddy, Taikai type, with ivory lid
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- This squat tea caddy has brown and black glaze, two small ornamental handles, and an ivory lid.
- Century
- 17th century?
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1955/1.151A&B
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with brown and black glaze, ivory lid
- relevance
- rank 8.80883
- Primary Keywords
- ceramics
- ivory
- japan
- tea caddies
- vessels
- Title
- Ivory snuff bottle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1825-1900
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.62
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.71508
- Primary Keywords
- bird
- clouds
- immortals
- ivory
- oxen
- snuff bottle
- Title
- Netsuke of seated Hotei
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.33
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.71508
- Primary Keywords
- buddha
- ivory carvings
- miniature (size attribute)
- sculpture
- Title
- Ivory snuff bottle with ram heads and person
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1st half of 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.65
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.71508
- Primary Keywords
- grottoes
- ivory
- ram's heads
- snuff bottle
- Title
- Seal with incised flowers and finial of lion playing with a ball
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.34
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.71508
- Primary Keywords
- ivory carvings
- lion
- miniature (size attribute)
- sculpture
- Title
- Yamabushi (mountain ascetic) (okimono)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.45
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.62330
- Primary Keywords
- ascetic
- ivory carvings
- miniature (size attribute)
- sculpture
- standing
- Title
- Fragment of a gaming piece with male slaying beast, possibly Hercules and the Erymanthian boar, zigzag pattern with incised circles in border
- Artist
- Samson Carver, Pricked-Ivories Workshop, Cologne, Germany
- Physical Description
- Fragment of circular gaming piece carved in elephant ivory in high relief. Standing male figure wearing knee-length robe holds sword in right hand and stabs inverted beast in the chest. Forelegs of beast end in hooves; head of beast characterized by large eye and pronounced nostril. Left arm of figure and rear half of the beast missing. Border contains zigzag pattern with bead motif.
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1150
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.262
- Medium and Support
- elephant ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.62330
- Primary Keywords
- boars
- fighting
- game pieces
- high relief
- ivory
- swords
- Title
- Netsuke of a man seated by a hibachi
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.37
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.62330
- Primary Keywords
- ivory carvings
- man
- miniature (size attribute)
- netsuke
- sculpture
- Title
- Netsuke of a basket of kyôgen masks
- Artist
- Eiraku
- Artist Life Dates
- 19th century
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.36
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.53343
- Primary Keywords
- ivory carvings
- masks (costume)
- miniature (size attribute)
- netsuke
- sculpture
- Title
- Netsuke of the Daoist immortal Gama Sennin with a three-legged toad on his back
- Artist
- Masatsugu
- Artist Life Dates
- active 19th c.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.32
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.53343
- Primary Keywords
- amphibians
- immortals
- ivory carvings
- miniature (size attribute)
- netsuke
- sculpture
- Title
- Netsuke of seated sage with lion dog
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 18th century-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.35
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.53343
- Primary Keywords
- ivory carvings
- lion
- miniature (size attribute)
- sage (people
- sculpture
- Title
- Netsuke of man tossing demon-repelling beans, while a demon hides behind a screen
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.39
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.53343
- Primary Keywords
- demon
- ivory carvings
- man
- miniature (size attribute)
- netsuke
- sculpture
- Title
- Netsuke of sleeping sarumawashi (monkey-trainer) with a monkey on his back
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century - early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.38
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 8.44542
- Primary Keywords
- ivory carvings
- man
- miniature (size attribute)
- monkey
- netsuke
- sculpture
- sleeping
- Title
- Seto ware tea caddy "Hitorine," named by Kobori Enshû (1579–1647)
- Artist
- Seto Shinbei
- Physical Description
- Small, brown, thinly potted container with ivory lid. It has a short neck and round shoulder; The dark glaze is randomly applied from shoulder to the middle of the body. The part at the bottom is unglazed. The bottom has no foot and unglazed. The lid is concaved from the rim toward the center knob.
- Artist Life Dates
- late 16th century - early 17th century
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1600-1647
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.532A&B
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with mottled brown glaze, ivory lid
- relevance
- rank 7.92321
- Primary Keywords
- bags (containers)
- ivory
- jar
- silk (fiber)
- silk (textile)
- tea caddies
- Title
- Knife, from a two-piece fish server
- Artist
- Hatton Works (Wilson and Davis)
- Physical Description
- Knife engraved with leaf pattern and ivory handle
- Artist Life Dates
- active 1870-1883
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1853-1854
- Accession Number
- 1968/1.63
- Medium and Support
- silver with ivory handle
- relevance
- rank 7.82048
- Primary Keywords
- ivory
- knife
- knife (cutting tool)
- silverware
- Title
- Fork, from a two-piece fish server
- Artist
- Hatton Works (Wilson and Davis)
- Physical Description
- Five-tined engraved silver fork with ivory handle
- Artist Life Dates
- active 1870-1883
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1853-1854
- Accession Number
- 1968/1.62
- Medium and Support
- silver with ivory handle
- relevance
- rank 7.82048
- Primary Keywords
- forks
- forks for serving food
- ivory
- silverware