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The Mourning Virgin and holy women (fragment of a Crucifixion from a portable altarpiece); Embriachi Workshop, Venice, Italy; Executed in the workshop of Baldassare degli Embriachi

Title: The Mourning Virgin and holy women (fragment of a Crucifixion from a portable altarpiece)
Artist: Embriachi Workshop, Venice, Italy
Physical Description: This carved bone sculpture depicts the Virgin Mary raising her right hand in a gesture of grief while her head is bent in mourning. A similar female figure, holding her hands clasped before her, appears in profile behind the Virgin, and another female figure stands to the left. Behind the mourning women the pointed helmets worn by two soldiers may be discerned.
Century: 14th-15th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1400
Accession Number: 1976/2.102
Medium and Support: bone
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

A votive plaque depicting an image of the Buddha, housed within a small temple; Artist Unknown, China

Title: A votive plaque depicting an image of the Buddha, housed within a small temple
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: A small, thin, molded clay plaque with a bas-relief scene.
Century: 6th-7th century
Object Creation Date: late 6th century - early 7th century
Accession Number: 1964/2.21
Medium and Support: terracotta, molded
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Abstract Form; Peter Voulkos

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Title: Abstract Form
Artist: Peter Voulkos
Physical Description: Large stoneware abstract sculpture with two balanced lateral crescent-shaped forms branching off a central conical structure. Brown with loosely-painted broad brushstrokes in black and incised decoration of rows of dots in a “stitching-like” pattern
Artist Life Dates: (1924 - 2002)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1960
Accession Number: 1960/1.181
Medium and Support: stoneware
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Angry Neptune; Michele Oka Doner

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Title: Angry Neptune
Artist: Michele Oka Doner
Physical Description: Large bronze sculpture resembling a headless human figure. The surface texture is very rough with deep voids and coarse patches of metal. The brown patina has a whitish tinge.
Artist Life Dates: Born 1945
Object Creation Date: 2008
Accession Number: 2009/1.466
Medium and Support: cast bronze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Apsara Warrior; Ouk Chim Vichet

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Title: Apsara Warrior
Artist: Ouk Chim Vichet
Physical Description: metal figural sculpture made of decommissioned AK-47s welded together
Artist Life Dates: b. 1981
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 2004
Accession Number: 2007/2.79
Medium and Support: metal
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Bhairava: Shiva as Lord of the Cremation Grounds; Artist Unknown, India, Karnataka

Title: Bhairava: Shiva as Lord of the Cremation Grounds
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Karnataka
Physical Description: Shiva as Bhairava stands against a plain pointed arch supported by pilasters with a kirtimukha or face of glory at the top. He stands in a trihanga pose, with his hip thrust to his right and wears platform sandals. He originally has four arms, the front two of which are broken away. His back two arms hold a decorated trident and a drum. He would have held a sword in one hand and a kapala, a cup made out of a scull and a hanging severed head in the other. He is naked, but wears much of jewelry including belts with pendant elements, anklets, armlets, bracelets, necklaces, a band just under his breasts and large circular earrings. He also wears a decorated sacred thread over his left shoulder. His has an elaborate coiffure in curls around the top of his head with a large topknot to one side. His face is badly damaged. Emaciated hungry ghosts attend him, the one to his right dancing with his hands raised above his head with a pot between his legs. The ghost who is on his left stands behind a dog, whose head has broken away. The ghost and the dog would have been playing with the absent severed head, adding to the ghoulish nature of the image.
Century: 12th - 13th century
Object Creation Date: 12th century -13th century
Accession Number: 2001/2.131
Medium and Support: stone
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, attended by Indra; Artist Unknown, Gandhara (Ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)

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
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Bust of Diana; Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière

Title: Bust of Diana
Artist: Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière
Physical Description: Bust-length figure of a woman with head turned proper left, down-turned eyelids and crescent moon atop head; executed in bronze with a rich, dark patina on a brownish stone base.
Artist Life Dates: 1831-1900
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1882
Accession Number: 1986/2.83
Medium and Support: bronze with marble base
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Bust of George Washington (1732-1799), after Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828); Randolph Rogers; After Jean-Antoine Houdon

Title: Bust of George Washington (1732-1799), after Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)
Artist: Randolph Rogers
Physical Description: This is a white marble sculpture that depicts the upper torso of a man. There is drapery wrapped loosely around his figure. He is shown staring into the viewer's space and his facial expression is calm and reserved. This sculpture is carved in a realistic manner and rests on a columnar pedestal.
Artist Life Dates: 1825 - 1892
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1868
Accession Number: 1895.12
Medium and Support: marble
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Ceremonial Cup; Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Suku

Title: Ceremonial Cup
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Suku
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1950
Accession Number: 1985/2.125
Medium and Support: carved wood
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Checkers up at the Farm; John Rogers

Title: Checkers up at the Farm
Artist: John Rogers
Physical Description: Plaster sculpture depicting two men sitting on stools playing checkers using a barrel as a table with a woman holding a baby standing behind them.
Artist Life Dates: 1829-1904
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1875
Accession Number: 1950/1.100
Medium and Support: painted plaster
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Cup; Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba

Title: Cup
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1925
Accession Number: 1984/2.37
Medium and Support: carved wood
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Daedalus; Charles Ginnever

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Title: Daedalus
Artist: Charles Ginnever
Physical Description: Cor-Ten steel abstract sculpture
Artist Life Dates: born 1931
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1975
Accession Number: 1977/2.9
Medium and Support: Cor-Ten steel
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Dakini; Artist Unknown, Nepal

Title: Dakini
Artist: Artist Unknown, Nepal
Physical Description: A small stone sculpture in bas-relief, depicting a tantric goddess. The back of the image is carved in a stylized petal shape, while the figure is crudely carved in relief on the front.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1983/1.111
Medium and Support: stone
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Double Totemic Sculpture; Mark Lindquist

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Title: Double Totemic Sculpture
Artist: Mark Lindquist
Physical Description: rough-hewn hollowed wood sculpture in natural state with spalt, marks, holes, etc.
Artist Life Dates: born 1949
Century: late 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1994-1995
Accession Number: 2002/2.156A
Medium and Support: oak burl
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Double Totemic Sculpture; Mark Lindquist

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Title: Double Totemic Sculpture
Artist: Mark Lindquist
Physical Description: rough-hewn hollowed wood sculpture in natural state with spalt, marks, holes, etc.
Century: late 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1994-1995
Accession Number: 2002/2.156B
Medium and Support: oak burl
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Durga as slayer of the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasuramardini); Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Durga as slayer of the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasuramardini)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.48
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Durga on her lion mount; Artist Unknown, India, Bihar

Title: Durga on her lion mount
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Bihar
Physical Description: The four-armed Durga sits on a stylized crouching lion with her right leg pendant and the left one across her body. Her front right hand extends down with palm outwards in a boon giving gesture while the back right hand holds a sword. Her left font hand holds a fruit or flower bud while her back left hand holds a shield. The whole is simply carved with rather subdued jewelry, but she does wear necklaces, bracelets, armlets and loose anklets as well as large circular earrings and a diadem across her forehead. Her hair is arranged behind the diadem. The stele is subtly pointed and its only decoration is a band along the outside, although a throne is suggested at her knees. A highly stylized lotus supports her right foot at the base.
Century: 13th-14th century
Object Creation Date: 13th century - 14th century
Accession Number: 1981/1.315
Medium and Support: stone
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Egúngún headress (erin type); Adugbologe Workshop of Abeokuta, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria

Title: Egúngún headress (erin type)
Artist: Adugbologe Workshop of Abeokuta, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria
Physical Description: A massive, baroque, and busy wood-carved headdress with stylized face (showing classic Yoruba features) of bulging eyes with defined upper lids, long, straight, triangular nose, symmetrical scarification patterns consisting of three horizontal lines on each cheek, a short beard from ear to ear just underneath the lower lip. Two large “ears” protrude on either side of head and act as “scaffolding” for numerous attachments of symbolic content: birds and lions predominate, but also visible are amulets, wooden claws and beads, crosses, and an insignia shield of some kind. The ears terminate in two oblong mirrors with lions leaping off of each. Layers of pigment are visible, giving impression it has been repainted over time.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1960
Accession Number: 1985/1.183
Medium and Support: wood, mirrors, pigment, gourd, beads, metal
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Elephant rider; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Elephant rider
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1980/2.287
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Emergence; Geoffrey Wilkes

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Title: Emergence
Artist: Geoffrey Wilkes
Physical Description: egg-shaped wood with natural burl, holes, pockets; polished and smoothed at edges
Artist Life Dates: born 1951
Century: late 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1998
Accession Number: 2002/2.184
Medium and Support: manzanita
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Equestrian figure; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Equestrian figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1980/2.259
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Eve with Apple; Andre Dimanche

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Title: Eve with Apple
Artist: Andre Dimanche
Physical Description: A wood carving of a woman holding an apple over her head.
Artist Life Dates: active 1970s
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2011/2.182
Medium and Support: wood carving
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Figure; Henry Moore

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Title: Figure
Artist: Henry Moore
Physical Description: A small carved wood sculpture depicting a seated figure with legs crossed.
Artist Life Dates: (Castleford, England, 7/30/1898 - 8/31/1986, Hertforshire, England)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1932
Accession Number: 1953/1.27
Medium and Support: lignum vitae with wood base
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Flora; Richard James Wyatt

Title: Flora
Artist: Richard James Wyatt
Physical Description: White marble sculpture of female figure, partially nude with a cloth draped loosely around her waist and over her left forearm. She holds a cluster of flowers in her left hand, and a single bloom in her right; a basket of flowers located on base to left and slightly behind figure.
Artist Life Dates: 1795 - 1850
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1850
Accession Number: 1931.17
Medium and Support: marble
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Folk durga -- figure mounted on lion; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Folk durga -- figure mounted on lion
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1980/2.274
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Food Bowl; Artist Unknown, New Guinean, Sepik River region

Title: Food Bowl
Artist: Artist Unknown, New Guinean, Sepik River region
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1950-1960
Accession Number: 1985/1.97
Medium and Support: carved wood
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Food Bowl with Two Male Figures as Handles; New Guinea, Papua

Title: Food Bowl with Two Male Figures as Handles
Artist: New Guinea, Papua
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1985/2.124
Medium and Support: carved wood
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Four seated Buddhas, in dhyana mudra; Artist Unknown, Cambodia (Khmer)

Title: Four seated Buddhas, in dhyana mudra
Artist: Artist Unknown, Cambodia (Khmer)
Physical Description: A molded and incised relief sculpture of four seated Buddhas, on a dais with floral rosette motifs.
Century: 12th century
Object Creation Date: 12th century
Accession Number: 2000/2.152
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Four-armed Ganesha seated in the posture of Royal Ease; Artist Unknown, India, Kerala Workshop

Title: Four-armed Ganesha seated in the posture of Royal Ease
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Kerala Workshop
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1981/2.62
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Ganesha; India, Central India

Title: Ganesha
Artist: India, Central India
Century: 10th-12th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 12th century
Accession Number: 1981/1.317
Medium and Support: sandstone
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Garuda on a pedestal (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India

Title: Garuda on a pedestal (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.39
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Growing Forms; David Smith

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Title: Growing Forms
Artist: David Smith
Physical Description: A roughly teardrop-shaped sculpture of shiny cast aluminum. Within the basic organic shape are several curls and a shape that appears to be a woman or perhaps a fetus. The sculpture sits atop a tall wooden base composed of a stack of fat disc shapes.
Artist Life Dates: 1906-1965
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1939
Accession Number: 1980/1.213A
Medium and Support: cast aluminum on wood base
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Head; Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi

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Title: Head
Artist: Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi
Physical Description: Abstract sculpture vaguely representational of a bust-length head, the face of which appears to be constructed from strips of metal and parts from machines.
Artist Life Dates: 1924 - 2005
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1957
Accession Number: 1979/2.10
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Heather's Fragrance; Alain Mailland

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Title: Heather's Fragrance
Artist: Alain Mailland
Physical Description: organic form consisting of thin concentric tendrils of wood
Artist Life Dates: born, Ivory Coast, Africa, 1959
Century: late 20th century
Object Creation Date: 2001
Accession Number: 2002/2.161
Medium and Support: heather root
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Jina, fragment of a larger shrine; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Jina, fragment of a larger shrine
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 20th-century
Object Creation Date: circa 15th century
Accession Number: 1975/2.123
Medium and Support: copper
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Little Torso No. 5 (Torse); Hans Arp

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Title: Little Torso No. 5 (Torse)
Artist: Hans Arp
Physical Description: A small polished bronze sculpture of a biomorphic form rising gracefully from a small base. Where it contacts the base, the form stands on two leg-like structures. The form rises from there, narrows, then opens up into a wider, more oblong shape at the top.
Artist Life Dates: 1886-1966
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1930; cast 1957
Accession Number: 1983/1.399
Medium and Support: polished bronze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Lotus Relief, Fragment from the crosspiece of a stupa railing in Mathura; India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura

Title: Lotus Relief, Fragment from the crosspiece of a stupa railing in Mathura
Artist: India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura
Physical Description: The red mottled sandstone of this lotus relief is unique to the Sikri quarry, just outside of Mathura.
Century: 3rd century
Object Creation Date: 3rd century
Accession Number: 1963/1.90
Medium and Support: red sandstone
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Mahishasuramardini; Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title: Mahishasuramardini
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.46
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Man in Motion (Uomo in movimento); Mino Rosso

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Title: Man in Motion (Uomo in movimento)
Artist: Mino Rosso
Physical Description: A bronze sculpture of an abstracted male figure in motion. His knees are bent as he leans into his movement. His arms are tucked along his torso, and he appears to be propelling his movement with great force. The surface is a bright bronze color but with some patina.
Artist Life Dates: 1904 - 1963
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1934
Accession Number: 1959/2.100
Medium and Support: bronze with wood base
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Mantel clock with a priestess and Cupid offering a sacriffice to Venus; Joseph Buzot

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
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Model cooking stove (mingqi: tomb object); Artist Unknown, China

Title: Model cooking stove (mingqi: tomb object)
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 206 BCE - 220 CE
Accession Number: 1974/1.174
Medium and Support: earthenware with green lead glaze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Model of a four-story watchtower; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Model of a four-story watchtower
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: model of a four story tower; each story has a movable door attached to the building through hinges; a human figurine stands in front of each door
Century: 1st century
Object Creation Date: 1st century
Accession Number: 1993/1.71.1
Medium and Support: red earthenware with green lead glaze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Model of a four-story watchtower; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Model of a four-story watchtower
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: part of the grave furnishing assemblage for the well-to-do family in Central Plains region of Han Dynasty China during the first century CE
Century: 1st century
Object Creation Date: 1st century
Accession Number: 1993/1.71.2
Medium and Support: red earthenware with green lead glaze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Model of a four-story watchtower; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Model of a four-story watchtower
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: model of a four story tower; each story has a movable door attached to the building through hinges; a human figurine stands in front of each door
Century: 1st century
Object Creation Date: 1st century
Accession Number: 1993/1.71.4
Medium and Support: red earthenware with green lead glaze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Model of a four-story watchtower; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Model of a four-story watchtower
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: model of a four story tower; each story has a movable door attached to the building through hinges; a human figurine stands in front of each door
Century: 1st century
Object Creation Date: 1st century
Accession Number: 1993/1.71.5
Medium and Support: Red earthenware with green lead glaze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Model of a four-story watchtower; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Model of a four-story watchtower
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: model of a four story tower; each story has a movable door attached to the building through hinges; a human figurine stands in front of each door
Century: 1st century
Object Creation Date: 1st century
Accession Number: 1993/1.71.3
Medium and Support: red earthenware with green lead glaze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Model of a goat pen with one ram and three ewes; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Model of a goat pen with one ram and three ewes
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: model of a goat pen with one ram and three ewes, with a small shed over the pen and stairs
Century: 1st century BCE
Object Creation Date: 1st century
Accession Number: 1990/1.211
Medium and Support: red earthenware with green lead glaze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Model of a granary with bear-shaped feet; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Model of a granary with bear-shaped feet
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 1st century BCE
Object Creation Date: 1st century BCE
Accession Number: 1996/2.17
Medium and Support: earthenware, unglazed
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

Model of a mill; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Model of a mill
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 1st century
Object Creation Date: 1st century - 2nd century
Accession Number: 1993/1.61
Medium and Support: earthenware, red, with green lead glaze
Secondary Object Classification: Sculpture

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