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Title

Photograph Album

Artist

Anonymous English

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1994/2.19

Medium and Support

168 albumen prints mounted in leather bound album

relevance

rank 22.31136

Secondary Keywords

abbeys

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Title

Night Scene from Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's "The Lectern" [Le Lutrin], Illustration for the 3rd Canto

Artist

Bernard Picart

Physical Description

Three men standing in a surprised movement with an owl coming out of an overturned lectern. There is decorated border around the drawing.

Artist Life Dates

1673-1733

Century

18th century

Accession Number

2013/2.566

Medium and Support

etching and engraving on laid paper

relevance

rank 18.78918

Secondary Keywords

accessories worn on the head

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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 18.53709

Secondary Keywords

altar and altar component coverings and hangings

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Title

Jaina altar piece of the 24 [Caturvimsati] Jinas: with standing nude figure of Mahavira cast in the round occupying central area of base, flanked by small tirthankaras; incsribed but unread. From Mysore, Karnataka.

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, South India

Century

15th-16th century

Object Creation Date

15th century - 16th century

Accession Number

1978/2.118

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 18.02942

Secondary Keywords

altars and altar components

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Title

Caturvimsati Pata (Shrine of the 24 Jinas)

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat

Physical Description

This shrine depicts a large seated Jina surrounded by 23 other jina figures and a variety of attendants. The Jina figures that adorn the sides and are arranged in tiers above the main figure. The side columns and the whole is surmounted by auspicious pot forms. The main figure sits in the lotus position on a lion throne flanked by a male and female demigod. Along the sides he is flanked by standing cauri bearers, garland bearers above them and riders on elephants above that with an umbrella with a standing figure on it above his head. At the base in the center is a standing figure holding a sick or club with a bull cognizance behind him on the base of the throne. The nine globs on the base, four to his right and five to his left represent the nine planets and his hands folded in a gesture of meditation

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1464

Accession Number

1975/2.120

Medium and Support

bronze or brass

relevance

rank 17.90052

Secondary Keywords

altars and altar components

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Title

N. 211 Interno della Chiesa di S. Marco Navata principale

Artist

Carlo Ponti

Physical Description

Interior image of a church altar with empahasis on the side pillars and ceiling. The angle of the image is from the left hand side, looking at the altar. There is sunlight coming through the windows. The image is toned in browns.

Artist Life Dates

(1820 - 1893)

Object Creation Date

circa 1860

Accession Number

2012/2.173

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

relevance

rank 16.25918

Secondary Keywords

altars and altar components

architectural elements

architectural elements by building type

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Title

Buddha, standing, in double abhaya mudra and dressed in royal attire

Artist

Artist Unknown, Thailand

Physical Description

Gilded brass (or gilded copper alloy) standing Buddha on lotus pedestal with both hands raised in abhaya mudra.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1975/1.66

Medium and Support

gilded brass (or gilded copper alloy?)

relevance

rank 15.71689

Secondary Keywords

altars and altar components

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asia (continent)

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Title

Mahavira

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra

Century

12th century

Object Creation Date

12th century

Accession Number

1979/2.53

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 15.41340

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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Title

One of Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables

Artist

Artist Unknown, Thailand

Physical Description

Gilt and lacquered wooden table of ten-piece altar set. Not including the base, the set is designed in three rows, which simultaneously recede from the viewer and increase in height, culminating in one central table that rises above the rest allocated for a statue of the Buddha. Each table is carved along the edges in stylized floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt. The wood surfaces of the tables are coated in red lacquer, and with the exclusion of the short, wide base, each table in the set includes a mirror designed to face the viewer.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.466.2

Medium and Support

gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors

relevance

rank 15.31666

Secondary Keywords

altars and altar components

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Title

One of Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables

Artist

Artist Unknown, Thailand

Physical Description

Gilt and lacquered wooden table of ten-piece altar set. Not including the base, the set is designed in three rows, which simultaneously recede from the viewer and increase in height, culminating in one central table that rises above the rest allocated for a statue of the Buddha. Each table is carved along the edges in stylized floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt. The wood surfaces of the tables are coated in red lacquer, and with the exclusion of the short, wide base, each table in the set includes a mirror designed to face the viewer.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.466.1

Medium and Support

gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors

relevance

rank 15.31666

Secondary Keywords

altars and altar components

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support furniture

Title

One of Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables

Artist

Artist Unknown, Thailand

Physical Description

Gilt and lacquered wooden table of ten-piece altar set. Not including the base, the set is designed in three rows, which simultaneously recede from the viewer and increase in height, culminating in one central table that rises above the rest allocated for a statue of the Buddha. Each table is carved along the edges in stylized floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt. The wood surfaces of the tables are coated in red lacquer, and with the exclusion of the short, wide base, each table in the set includes a mirror designed to face the viewer.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.466.10

Medium and Support

gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors

relevance

rank 15.31666

Secondary Keywords

altars and altar components

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Title

One of Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables

Artist

Artist Unknown, Thailand

Physical Description

Gilt and lacquered wooden table of ten-piece altar set. Not including the base, the set is designed in three rows, which simultaneously recede from the viewer and increase in height, culminating in one central table that rises above the rest allocated for a statue of the Buddha. Each table is carved along the edges in stylized floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt. The wood surfaces of the tables are coated in red lacquer, and with the exclusion of the short, wide base, each table in the set includes a mirror designed to face the viewer.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.466.5

Medium and Support

gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors

relevance

rank 15.31666

Secondary Keywords

altars and altar components

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Title

One of Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables

Artist

Artist Unknown, Thailand

Physical Description

Gilt and lacquered wooden table of ten-piece altar set. Not including the base, the set is designed in three rows, which simultaneously recede from the viewer and increase in height, culminating in one central table that rises above the rest allocated for a statue of the Buddha. Each table is carved along the edges in stylized floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt. The wood surfaces of the tables are coated in red lacquer, and with the exclusion of the short, wide base, each table in the set includes a mirror designed to face the viewer.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.466.9

Medium and Support

gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors

relevance

rank 15.29954

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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Title

Platform for Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables

Artist

Artist Unknown, Thailand

Physical Description

Gilt and lacquered wooden platform for ten-piece altar set. The platform is carved along the edges in floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt are larger in size and less stylized than those found on the set it spports. Located between upper and lower carved floral registers is a band decorated with a repeating geometrical rectangular pattern, covered also with gold gilt. The red wood surface of the long, short platform is coated in lacquer.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.466.11

Medium and Support

gilt and lacquered wood

relevance

rank 15.29954

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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Title

One of Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables

Artist

Artist Unknown, Thailand

Physical Description

Gilt and lacquered wooden table of ten-piece altar set. Not including the base, the set is designed in three rows, which simultaneously recede from the viewer and increase in height, culminating in one central table that rises above the rest allocated for a statue of the Buddha. Each table is carved along the edges in stylized floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt. The wood surfaces of the tables are coated in red lacquer, and with the exclusion of the short, wide base, each table in the set includes a mirror designed to face the viewer.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.466.4

Medium and Support

gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors

relevance

rank 15.29954

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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Title

One of Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables

Artist

Artist Unknown, Thailand

Physical Description

Gilt and lacquered wooden table of ten-piece altar set. Not including the base, the set is designed in three rows, which simultaneously recede from the viewer and increase in height, culminating in one central table that rises above the rest allocated for a statue of the Buddha. Each table is carved along the edges in stylized floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt. The wood surfaces of the tables are coated in red lacquer, and with the exclusion of the short, wide base, each table in the set includes a mirror designed to face the viewer.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.466.6

Medium and Support

gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors

relevance

rank 15.29954

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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Title

One of Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables

Artist

Artist Unknown, Thailand

Physical Description

Gilt and lacquered wooden table of ten-piece altar set. Not including the base, the set is designed in three rows, which simultaneously recede from the viewer and increase in height, culminating in one central table that rises above the rest allocated for a statue of the Buddha. Each table is carved along the edges in stylized floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt. The wood surfaces of the tables are coated in red lacquer, and with the exclusion of the short, wide base, each table in the set includes a mirror designed to face the viewer.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.466.8

Medium and Support

gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors

relevance

rank 15.29954

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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support furniture

Title

One of Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables

Artist

Artist Unknown, Thailand

Physical Description

Gilt and lacquered wooden table of ten-piece altar set. Not including the base, the set is designed in three rows, which simultaneously recede from the viewer and increase in height, culminating in one central table that rises above the rest allocated for a statue of the Buddha. Each table is carved along the edges in stylized floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt. The wood surfaces of the tables are coated in red lacquer, and with the exclusion of the short, wide base, each table in the set includes a mirror designed to face the viewer.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.466.3

Medium and Support

gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors

relevance

rank 15.29954

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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support furniture

Title

One of Ten-Piece Set of Altar Tables

Artist

Artist Unknown, Thailand

Physical Description

Gilt and lacquered wooden table of ten-piece altar set. Not including the base, the set is designed in three rows, which simultaneously recede from the viewer and increase in height, culminating in one central table that rises above the rest allocated for a statue of the Buddha. Each table is carved along the edges in stylized floral and leaf patterns coated with gold gilt. The wood surfaces of the tables are coated in red lacquer, and with the exclusion of the short, wide base, each table in the set includes a mirror designed to face the viewer.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.466.7

Medium and Support

gilt and lacquered wood with mirrors

relevance

rank 15.29954

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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Title

Altar

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Benin

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

1997/1.359

Medium and Support

carved wood

relevance

rank 15.04814

Secondary Keywords

altars and altar components

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Title

Mantel clock with a priestess and Cupid offering a sacriffice to Venus

Artist

Joseph Buzot

Physical Description

The dial of this elaborately decorated clock stands upon a two-tiered base. The lower tier consists of a hollow base made of ebony and adorned with a frieze of gilded bronze scrollwork and palmette motifs. The upper tier, made entirely of gilded bronze, features six fluted pilasters with a decorative panel centered on the front below the dial. This panel is composed of a pair of doves touching beaks before a crossed quiver of arrows and a flaming torch framed by leaves. A woman in long flowing robes stands to the right of the dial and empties a small cup onto a dove held by a winged putto who lies on a rocky projection. Behind the dove burns a fire on a small altar inscribed "Altar of Venus" [Autel à Venus].

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1780

Accession Number

2001/2.82

Medium and Support

gilded bronze, ebony, porcelain, and glass

relevance

rank 11.67565

Secondary Keywords

additive and joining processes and techniques

altars and altar components

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architectural elements

architectural elements by building type

birds

ceremonies

components

components and systems

components by specific context

descriptors

design elements

enclosing structural elements

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european styles and periods

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measuring devices

measuring devices for extent

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modern european styles and movements

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structural elements and structural element components

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styles and periods by region

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wall components by form or function

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