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- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.133
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.126
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.118
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.135
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.128
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.120
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.137
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.130
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.122
- Medium and Support
- handscroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.123
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.139
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.132
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.125
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.117
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.134
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.127
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.119
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.136
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.129
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.121
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.138
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.131
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.124
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Portrait of a Emperor(?) and Two Attendants
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1850-1950
- Accession Number
- 1951/2.28
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Mask (vaca bruto, dugn'be type)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Bijogo Peoples Guinea Bissau
- Physical Description
- Naturalistic cow’s head of carved from wood with eyes cut from the bottoms of glass bottles. Natural cow horns are attached. Head is predominantly black with white triangle on forehead, red pigment surrounding eyes, red in interior of ears, white chin, and white dots on cheeks and in red ground around eyes. Horns are white, tipped in black; a fiber cord runs through its nostrils and around back of head.
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1925-1975
- Accession Number
- 1984/1.273
- Medium and Support
- wood, glass, paint, metal, animal horns
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Purple haori with supplementary weft brocade woven bird-and-flowers designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Purple silk damask (rinzu) in T-paper pattern (sayagata), bokashi dyed so that the shoulders are a darker purple than the lower half of the haori. Woven designs of phoenixes, paulownia, cranes, chysanthemums, etc., incorporate metallic threads. Lining is orange and white silk. There are purple and white kumihimo (a kind of cord) with tassels.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1930-1939
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.355
- Medium and Support
- purple silk damask with woven designs
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Black kimono with painted and gilt floral designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- This black silk crepe kimono is decorated with chrysanthemum motifs, and has an inner red lining.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1940s-1950s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.389
- Medium and Support
- silk crepe with painted designs
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Summer crested kimono with orchid design on purple crackled ground (hibiware)
- Artist
- Minagawa Gekka
- Physical Description
- It is a grayish purple silk crepe kimono with wax-resist patterns, hand-painted design and metallic threads embroidery. The kimono is in full length and has elongated sleeves. The fabric is dyed with purple, leaving the family crest under the collar and the floral design part white. The dark purple scale pattern is added using wax-resist technique. Then the design of multiple kinds of plants is hand-painted with white, red, yellow, pale and blue green, and black colors. The half bottom of the family crest is also dyed with pink. There are mix of tropical flowers and foliage including four kinds of orchids, gladiolus, ferns, and ginger in red, yellow, green, purple, black and white hue. Embroidery is added in various metallic threads around the contours of flowers and leaves.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1892-1987
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.359
- Medium and Support
- crepe silk with wax-resist pattern, hand-painted designs, and embroidery
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Dark green silk fukuro obi with embroidered gold medallions of four-petaled flowers in hexagonal shapes
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Dark green plain weave silk with embroidered hexagonal design in couched greenish-gold and yellow-gold wrapped threads
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1970s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.342
- Medium and Support
- green colored silk with gold embroidered design
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Formal gray kimono with gilt, embroidered and appliquéd saga brocade cloud designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Gray silk damask with surihaku (gilt), embroidered and appliquéd brocade designs, bordered in couched gold-wrapped threads. Lining is plain weave silk, white above and gray below. Has double oak-leaf (kashiwa) crest embroidered in gold thread.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.378
- Medium and Support
- gray twill silk with brocade and embroidery designs
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Bizen ware water jar with lid (mizusashi)
- Artist
- Kaneshige Tôyô
- Physical Description
- This is an unglazed stoneware bizen jar fired in a wood-burning kiln.
- It has a hard, smooth surface with decorative incisions near the top of the jar. The lower portion has effect of color gradation of reds and browns. The lid seems to dip into the jar, and has a know handle. The entire piece is not perfectly formed, but has an organic aesthetic.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1896-1967
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1950-1963
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.72
- Medium and Support
- stoneware, unglazed
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Shigaraki ware plate
- Artist
- Takahashi Rakusai III
- Physical Description
- A rectangular shaped plate with eight circular patterns. The rim is slightly flared out to create the concave shape. The top surface is unglazed, scorched to an intense red. The bottom does not have foot. In the kiln, the thick clay slabs were stacked close together so that the floating ash landed on the edge of the plate facing the flame. The circular patterns are areas that were protected from the flame by cylinder clay spacers.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1898-1976
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.76
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with natural ash glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Bowl
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Century
- mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.119
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Ivory maru obi with woven pattern of gold paulownia (kiri) flowers
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Maru obi with ivory colored sateen weave silk (shusu) with large woven paulownia designs in gold-leafed paper (kinran)
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1975
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.328
- Medium and Support
- ivory colored sateen weave silk with large woven designs in gold-leafed paper
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Black kimono with overall shibori design of alternating diagonal columns of rectangular blocks of patterns against black ground
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- White plain-weave with overall black tie-dye design (black acid dye) in hitta kanoko. The pattern consists of rectangular blocks of densely-packed tie-dye knots in rows of 5 x 12. Lining is plain weave white silk with bokashi blue borders.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1950s-1970s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.361
- Medium and Support
- white silk with black tie-dye design
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Kimono with overall woven pattern of assorted flowers
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1920s - 1940s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.392
- Medium and Support
- silk crepe twill with interwoven silver and dark purple threads
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Beaded Coronet (oríkògbòfó or ojewe)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria
- Physical Description
- Round beaded crown with six radiating bands (predominantly green with white, metallic and blue accents) that stem from the central axis upon which the big blue-headed bird sits. Smaller birds perch at the base of the bands. Bottom rim predominantly red with white, metallic and blue accents. Spaces in between vertical bands are filled with yellow feathers or possibly synthetic material.
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1925-1975
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.345
- Medium and Support
- cloth, glass beads, metallic beads, feathers
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Maru obi with woven designs of hexagonal medallions with phoenixes among floral scrolls
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Black pain-weave satin interwoven with silk threads in light purple, rust, coral, maize, chartreuse, red, white, and ultramarine, and metallic threads in three shades of gold. The hexagonal shapes are definied by a weft of gold-coated paper (kinran) in pale greenish gold; the gold threads used in the medallions are wrapped. Inside each medallion is a phoenix design among a floral scroll.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.345
- Medium and Support
- black silk interwoven with silk floss and gold-covered paper threads
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Formal saga nishiki lavender hitoe kimono with brocade patches
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Lavender silk damask with woven chysanthemum design; painted with gold streaks (cloud patterns) and appliquéd patches of Saga brocade; borders with couched gold-wrapped threads.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1950s-1960s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.380
- Medium and Support
- lavender silk painted with gold streaks and appliquéd Saga brocade patches
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Japan's Thousand Island Mt. Huzi
- Artist
- Karol Koslowski
- Artist Life Dates
- (District of Stopnica, Poland, 1885 - 1969)
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960-1965
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.118
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Fan shaped obidome (obi brooch), inscribed bodai no tame
- Artist
- Taniguchi Haruki
- Physical Description
- Metal brooch in the shape of a fan with incised and inlaid decor, including floral designs. "Bodai no tame" is inscribed along with the artist's signature, Taniguchi Haruki, and indecipherable characters.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950-1975
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.369
- Medium and Support
- metal with incised and inlaid decor
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Prestige Pipe
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon Grassfields Cameroon
- Physical Description
- Pipe made in three parts: wood-carved stem, inner metal pipe for drawing smoke, and metal, possibly bronze bowl. Wood-carved, openwork stem is comprised of interlocking lizards; spiral whorls cover the cast metal bowl. bands of cowrie shells encircle the bottom and “neck” of the bowl, while its lip is topped with the classic Grassfields motif of a prestige cap.
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1925-1975
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.150
- Medium and Support
- wood, metal, possibly copper and bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Black Nagoya-style obi with embroidered pine needle designs in gold- and copper-colored metallic threads
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Black silk damask with some interwoved black lacquered threads; pine-needle design embroidery in gold- and copper-colored metallic threads
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.330
- Medium and Support
- black silk damask with mettalic thread embroidery
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Black saga brocade zôri (shoes)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Black silk damask with interwoven black lacquered threads that create a shiny effect in the light. Marked "Shizuko" on the bottom.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.370A&B
- Medium and Support
- black saga nishiki brocade uppers with rubber soles
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Silk underkimono with bokashi dye in large squares of aqua and white
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Silk crepe damask with alternating weaves in checkerboard design
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.394
- Medium and Support
- Silk crepe with twill geometric design
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Ogun Ax (àáké or edùn Ogun)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria
- Physical Description
- Carved ax handle is comprised of a kneeling male figure with rounded knob on top of his head, into which narrow end of triangular iron ax blade is embedded.
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1925-1975
- Accession Number
- 2006/2.73
- Medium and Support
- wood, iron
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Dark indigo shibori haori
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- White silk hand tie-dyed with dark indigo, in two techniques: makiage shibori and kanako shibori. Cream or pale peach-colored plain weave silk lining. Cord silver and white braided silk (kumihimo)
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.347
- Medium and Support
- white silk tie dyed dark indigo
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Khaki-colored koma-rinzu kimono with overall pattern of small silver flowers
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Silk crepe (repp weave) interwoven with synthetic silver threads. Lining is plain weave silk: white above and gray below.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1920s - 1940s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.383
- Medium and Support
- silk crepe interwoven with synthetic silver threads
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Mauve and periwinkle crested haori with wax-resist designs of floral clusters and embroidery in metallic threads
- Artist
- Minagawa Gekka
- Physical Description
- Overall wax-resist dyed pattern of crackled pale mauve on periwinkle ground, decorated with wax-resist dyed patterns of foral clusters in red, yellow, purple and white, and embroidery in gold, silver, and red metallic threads. White plain weave silk lining with wax-resist designs of fabric samples, predominantly red, blue, and gold. Silver and red red cords with tassles. Crest on the back of paired oak leaves (kashiwa) embroidered with gold couched threads and red and white bokashi silk thread.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1892-1987
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.350
- Medium and Support
- crepe silk with colorful wax resist design and metallic thread embroidery
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Black silk gauze fukuro obi with large woven floral 'hosoge' medallions
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Black silk leno weave (gauze) fukuro obi; floral medallion patterns woven in lacquered red, gold-coated paper (kinran). and a synthetic turquoise metal-coated paper.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.334
- Medium and Support
- silk leno weave (gauze) with patterns woven in coated paper
- relevance
- rank 5.01066