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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A glazed and speckled porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide decorated cylinder which tapers sharply into a narrow top. The base supports a wide, shallow bowl.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.47

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 16.17604

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A tall glazed and speckled gray porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder which widens at the top into a shallow dish. At the bottom of the base as well as a circle on the top of the dish there is some discoloration and morphing of the ceramic, most likely through use.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.39

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 16.17604

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A tall glazed and speckled white-blue porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder. Where the base of the dish and the top of the base meet there is a bowl-shape ring as the bottom of the dish and a wide angled lip that surrounds it.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.41

Medium and Support

ceramic

relevance

rank 16.17604

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A short glazed and speckled gray porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder which at the top is attached to a shallow dish. At the bottom of the base as well as a circle on the top of the dish there is some discoloration and morphing of the ceramic.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.44

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 16.17604

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A glazed porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a narrow tapered cylinder with a ridged pattern on it. On top of it is a wide and shallow dish.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.46

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 16.17604

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A glazed porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide cylinder which tapers sharply into a narrow top. The base supports a wide, almost flat disk as the bowl.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.48

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 16.17604

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A short glazed and speckled gray porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a small, tapered cylinder which then becomes the base of a slighlt deep dish. The gray glaze has some green coloration throughout the piece.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.40

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 16.17604

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A tall glazed and speckled white-blue porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder. The dish a the top is quite wide and shallow until it reaches the point of the base, where there is a deep hole in the cylinder of the base.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.43

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 16.17604

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A tall glazed and speckled porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a narrow and sharply tapered cylinder which meets an angular bottom of a dish. The dish itself is wide and shallow.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.45

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 16.17604

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Cinerary Urn or Reliquary with stamped circle designs

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

This stoneware vessel consists of a bowl and lid. The curved hemispheric lid has a ring-shaped knob in the center and is decorated with stamped design irregularly. The high and hemispheric bowl stands on the low foot with a flat base. This part is also decorated with densely and evenly stamped design.

Century

8th-early 9th century

Object Creation Date

8th century - early 9th century

Accession Number

2004/1.205A&B

Medium and Support

stoneware

relevance

rank 13.79329

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Cinerary urn with circle-and-dot design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Stoneware jar with natural ash glaze and rounded lid. Along the widest horizontal stretch is an incised circle-and-dot design. A design of concentric circles also loops around just as the rounded curve of the lid begins to flatten into a plateau on which a cintamani style knob rests.

Century

7th century

Object Creation Date

7th century

Accession Number

1973/2.35A&B

Medium and Support

stoneware with stamped decoration

relevance

rank 13.18694

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Cinerary urn with concentric circles design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Stoneware jar with natural ash glaze, squat body and lid. Along the widest horizontal stretch is a design of incised concentric circles, with another row above consisting of circles comprised of a pattern of impressions marking the edge of each circle. The convex curve of the lid also contains a row of incised concentric circles, before sloping into a concave valley, and rising up again to a small plateau. It is on this landing that a cintamani style knob rests.

Century

7th-8th century

Object Creation Date

7th century - 8th century

Accession Number

1973/2.34A&B

Medium and Support

stoneware with stamped design and natural ash glaze

relevance

rank 13.18694

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Cinerary urn with triangular circle-and-dot design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Stoneware jar with natural ash glaze and bell-shaped lid. Along the widest horizontal stretch of the base is an incised circle-and-dot design. A variation on this pattern also loops around the lid, topped by a line marking a ring along the surface of the lid, and incised lines extending outward from a button-shaped knob.

Century

7th century

Object Creation Date

7th century

Accession Number

1973/2.36A&B

Medium and Support

stoneware with stamped and incised decoration and natural ash glaze

relevance

rank 12.10960

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Christ giving communion to the Apostles in an historiated initial "C"

Artist

Artist Unknown, Netherlands

Physical Description

Eight robed male figures, each with a halo, kneel before a v-shaped bench or rail. They face a male figure with a crossed halo that stands on the other side of the bench, holding a golden chalice in his left hand and a circular white wafer imprinted with a crucifixion scene in his right. An altar draped with a red cloth appears behind him. The entire scene is enframed within the letter "C."

Century

Mid-15th century

Object Creation Date

1440-1460

Accession Number

1968/2.44

Medium and Support

tempera and gold leaf on vellum

relevance

rank 11.73469

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Title

Kadampa Stupa

Artist

Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal

Physical Description

A miniature stupa, cast of bronze in several parts, consisting of a bell-shaped base; an inverted cone-shaped tower, capped by an "umbrella" with pendant, fringe-like decoration, inlaid with semi-percious stone, surmounted by a lotus bud. Atop the whole structure is a half-moon and sun disk motif, supported by intertwined ribbons and culminating in another lotus bud.

Century

13th century

Object Creation Date

13th century

Accession Number

2003/1.386

Medium and Support

bronze with inlaid turquoise and coral

relevance

rank 10.64619

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Stupa: Hyakuman tô (one of one million pagodas)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

Wooden miniture model of a tower, comprised of a round base, a bar in the middle where three larger discs and six or seven small discs are inserted. A bulb-shaped ornament rests on top.

Century

8th century

Object Creation Date

764-770

Accession Number

1969/2.21

Medium and Support

carved wood with traces of gesso

relevance

rank 9.89608

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