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Title: Covered jar with design of flower maiden, sage, and child amidst flowering plants
Artist: Artist Unknown, Imari ware, Japan
Physical Description: A medium size, well potted porcelain jar with wooden rid, round shoulder and neck. Floral designs are painted with blue underglaze and red and gold overglaze enamels. There are Chinese scholar and attendant boy with a fan on one side and Japanese lady in kimono on the opposite side, painted with enamels. Band of flowers on the neck, another broader band of chrysanthemums on the shoulder. There is also a band of leaf patterns on the bottom. A large crack from neck to the middle of the body; porcelain glaze has small cracks all over the body. The foot is unglazed; the eye is fully glazed. No glaze on the rim. The teak wood lid, a later addition, has a finial made of an ivory netsuke of laughing Hotei.
Century: Mid-17th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1650
Accession Number: 1972/2.72A&B
Medium and Support: porcelain, blue underglaze, and enamel overglaze painting
relevance: rank 17.73248
Primary Keywords: boy; chrysanthemums; jar; sage (people

Title: Tibetan monk-scholar: print from inside conch trumpet
Artist: Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal
Physical Description: A woodblock print on paper, with large tears at the upper right hand and lower left hand corners, much abraded. Formerly placed insite the conch trumpet 1982/2.42 as a talisman.
Century: late 18th-early 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 18th century - early 19th century
Accession Number: 1982/2.42B
Medium and Support: woodblock print on paper
relevance: rank 17.35502
Primary Keywords: buddhism; himalayan; portrait; sage (people; woodblock prints

Title: Shakya Senge: Padmasambhava as a young monk
Artist: Tibet
Physical Description: A woodblock print on paper; the block was quite worn, resulting in broken or smudged lines.
Century: 20th century?
Object Creation Date: 20th century (?)
Accession Number: 1973/1.808C
Medium and Support: woodcut print on paper
relevance: rank 17.17225
Primary Keywords: buddhism; conch (shell); goddess; himalayan; sage (people; teacher

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 16.99329
Primary Keywords: ivory carvings; lion; miniature (size attribute); sage (people; sculpture

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