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Title

Wooden Cylinders (Pair)

Artist

Artist Unknown Northern and Southern Nguni, South Africa

Physical Description

Each short wooden cylinder is painted with an inlay on both circular face. One face is red, white and blue with brown dots. Other face in dark teal, black, yellow and white with brown dots.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.70.1-2

Medium and Support

wood and paint

relevance

rank 17.65817

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Title

Beaded Scarf

Artist

Artist Unknown Northern and Southern Nguni, South Africa

Physical Description

Striped beaded scarf in white, red, black, dark blue, and light blue beads. Missing small section of white outer beads. Has a few green beads mixed into the light blue sections.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.31

Medium and Support

plastic beads, string

relevance

rank 17.65817

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costume

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Title

Beaded Jewelry

Artist

Artist Unknown Northern and Southern Nguni, South Africa

Physical Description

Beaded jewlery with rectangular piece made up of white beads with red "H" shape in the middle. Three stripes on either end in green, blue and red. Twisted fringe at two ends.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.47

Medium and Support

plastic beads, string

relevance

rank 17.65817

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Title

Beaded Wooden Box

Artist

Artist Unknown Northern and Southern Nguni, South Africa

Physical Description

Beaded wooden box, sides open, inner compartment. Two longer edges with white beaded trim. Two largest faces with beaded detail, one face with white beads and "MITE" details in red and blue. Other face with white, red and blue stripes. Beaded handles.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.63

Medium and Support

wood, plastic beads, string

relevance

rank 17.65817

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Title

Beaded Necklace

Artist

Artist Unknown Northern and Southern Nguni, South Africa

Physical Description

Beaded necklace with stripe design. Button closures. Pink, white, dark blue, yellow, red and light blue beads.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.40

Medium and Support

plastic beads, string

relevance

rank 17.65817

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Beaded Bracelet

Artist

Artist Unknown Northern and Southern Nguni, South Africa

Physical Description

Beaded bracelet with triangle design of black, red, white, yellow and blue. Loop closure with two larger blue beads at the ends. Only thread on back and inside, white tag attached.

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.56

Medium and Support

plastic beads, string

relevance

rank 17.65817

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Title

Summer Watercolor #5

Artist

Richard Tuttle

Physical Description

Watercolor of wavy lines in blue, green, pink, purple and orange on a sheet of paper, which is attached at top by two pieces of masking tape to a strip of Styrofoam, making the drawing “float,” “hang.”

Artist Life Dates

Born 1941

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1986

Accession Number

2008/2.264

Medium and Support

watercolor, Styrofoam, graphite and tape on paper

relevance

rank 17.25076

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Title

Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, flanked by two donor figures and with a mandorla of the seven Buddhas of the past (fragment of a stele)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

6th century

Object Creation Date

circa 500-550

Accession Number

1964/1.89

Medium and Support

stone

relevance

rank 16.65783

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Title

Flat Basket with swastika motif, from Taiwan

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Flat woven bamboo basket with geometric pattern in red and black

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

2006/2.36

Medium and Support

woven bamboo

relevance

rank 16.43585

Secondary Keywords

containers

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grass (plant material)

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Title

Scenes from the Life of the Buddha: Adoration of the Buddha Dimpakara, Conception, Prophecy, Birth (architectural fragment)

Artist

Gandhara (ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)

Physical Description

A curved stone, originally a facing on the drum of a small stupa, carved with a narrative scene.

Century

2nd-3rd century

Object Creation Date

2nd century - 3rd century

Accession Number

1997/2.36

Medium and Support

stone

relevance

rank 15.79607

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Title

Basket with cover

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1950

Accession Number

1985/2.5

Medium and Support

woven raffia and wood

relevance

rank 15.73493

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Title

Blue and Red Hackers Ax

Artist

Jim Pallas

Physical Description

A red and blue painted object with matte and shiny finishes. A long wooden ax handle attached to a computer keyboard wrapped with a curly telephone cord towards the base of the handle.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1941

Object Creation Date

1995

Accession Number

2014/1.594

Medium and Support

pigmented epoxy on computer keyboard and cord with wooden ax handle

relevance

rank 14.69838

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Title

A Votive plaque depicting the Buddha seated in dhyana mudra, and flanked by two stupas

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

A small, thin, molded clay plaque with a bas-relief scene.

Century

7th-9th century

Object Creation Date

618-907

Accession Number

1964/2.23

Medium and Support

terracotta, molded

relevance

rank 14.59379

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Title

Profile Airflow—Test Mold, Front End

Artist

Claes Oldenburg

Physical Description

A polyurethane relief sculpture of the front end of an automobile superimposed over a silkscreen image of the car in an aluminum frame.

Artist Life Dates

American, born Sweden, 1929

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1968-1972

Accession Number

1975/1.80

Medium and Support

polyurethane relief over one-color silkscreen on Plexiglas

relevance

rank 14.11582

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Title

Do yu Get it

Artist

Martin Johnson

Physical Description

7-sided frame made of reclaimed wood moulding and slats nailed together and backed with strips of green felt, possibly from a pool table. Gold wire traces the wood frame, and is accented with a fuzz ball or googly eye at each corner. A toy car is placed on the gold wire “track” at bottom center; car racing flag stickers attached to the frame in a couple places. Three pieces of thread are strung horizontally across the frame, a “spider web” attached to top two lines with puffy paint. A wood (?) cutout of a smiling joker mouth hung from web by wire.

Artist Life Dates

(1951 - )

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1996

Accession Number

2008/2.235

Medium and Support

mixed media consruction, paint, wood, wire, toy car

relevance

rank 13.99899

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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 13.76149

Secondary Keywords

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bone

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Title

Engaged capital with vine rinceau, palmette leaves, and rosettes

Artist

Anonymous French

Physical Description

Engaged capital carved in grayish, coarse sandstone (arkose). The bell-shaped drum is decorated with a pattern of vine rinceau that encircles palmette leaves in a roughly symmetrical arrangement on each face of the capital. These ornamental plant forms are deeply undercut to highlight the pattern in sharp relief. A pair of volutes decorated with vertical striations springs from the vine rinceau in the upper portion of each face of the capital. A rosette enclosed in a circle appears at the top edge of the center of each face of the capital, above the point where the branches of the volutes diverge.

Century

First quarter of 12th century

Object Creation Date

1100-1125

Accession Number

1982/1.273

Medium and Support

sandstone

relevance

rank 13.74400

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Devotees of the Buddha (fragment of a frieze from a stupa, from Nagarjunakonda?)

Artist

India, Andhra Pradesh

Century

2nd-3rd century

Object Creation Date

2nd century - 3rd century

Accession Number

1972/2.42

Medium and Support

limestone

relevance

rank 13.43658

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Title

Untitled (Dollhouse); from the 2002 Peter Norton Family Christmas Project

Artist

Yinka Shonibare

Physical Description

Dollhouse replica of a two-storey Victorian-style flat in the East End of London. The façade is red brick with white molding. The upper storey has two tall windows that face onto the street; the door into the flat is on the left, and to the right of it is a large bay window. The split-level interior holds a bedroom and parlor, both of which are decorated with wallpaper and furnishings, including cabinets, chairs, tables, fireplaces, and a canopy bed. Reproductions of paintings by Shonibare and Jean-Honoré Fragonard hang on the walls. A seal on the right-facing outside wall reads: “Yinka Shonibare, artist, lives here.”

Artist Life Dates

born 1962

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

2002

Accession Number

2008/2.256

Medium and Support

resin, plastic, wood, paper and fabric

relevance

rank 13.39786

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Title

Black Excursion No. 13

Artist

Louise Nevelson

Physical Description

Square, rectangular, and circular pieces of wood and formica are assembled in rectilinear, cabinet-like compartments. The entire object is painted black.

Artist Life Dates

1899 - 1988

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1964

Accession Number

1997/1.131

Medium and Support

painted wood and black formica

relevance

rank 13.00393

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Title

Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, attended by Indra

Artist

Artist Unknown, Gandhara (Ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)

Physical Description

A fragment of a stucco relief sculpture.

Century

2nd-4th century

Object Creation Date

100-399

Accession Number

1961/2.83

Medium and Support

stucco relief with traces of polychromy

relevance

rank 12.80625

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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 12.69742

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