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Flattened Bottle with Lion-head and Turle Lugs; Artist Unknown, Korea

Title: Flattened Bottle with Lion-head and Turle Lugs
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: Unglazed gray stoneware flattened bottle with two lion-head lugs near teh upper corners, and two turtle shaped lugs on the bottom.
Century: 10th-11th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 11th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.210
Medium and Support: unglazed stoneware with appliqued decoration
relevance: rank 11.05500

Plate with brown-and-white ornamental design; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Plate with brown-and-white ornamental design
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 10th-11th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 11th century
Accession Number: 1957/1.50
Medium and Support: buff earthenware coated with sgraffito design in white slip
relevance: rank 11.05500

Head of Shiva; India, Central India

Title: Head of Shiva
Artist: India, Central India
Century: 10th-11th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 11th century
Accession Number: 1998/1.182
Medium and Support: sandstone
relevance: rank 11.05500

Ganesa; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Ganesa
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 10th-11th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 11th century
Accession Number: 1983/2.116
Medium and Support: sandstone
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Celestial Maiden Removing a Thorn from her Foot; India, Central India

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Title: Celestial Maiden Removing a Thorn from her Foot
Artist: India, Central India
Century: 10th-11th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 11th century
Accession Number: 2005/2.79
Medium and Support: sandstone
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Standing figure of Shiva; India, Central India

Title: Standing figure of Shiva
Artist: India, Central India
Physical Description: Shiva stands in an unbending pose and the sculpture is broken just below the knees. He is two-armed and his right hand is raised with his palm outward. His left arm is broken away. He wears a short lower garment with incised lines delineating folds and he is ithyphallic, his upraised penis extending up from behind his belt. He wears simple jewelry, a belt, armlets, a bracelet on the one wrist still extant and a simple beaded necklace. There is an auspicious diamond pattern in the middle of his chest. He has a fleshy face with a full mouth and large eyes, a third eye is incised on his forehead. His hair is done in an elaborate coiffure piled high.
Century: 10th-11th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 11th century
Accession Number: 1998/1.181
Medium and Support: sandstone
relevance: rank 11.05500

Bowl with Chrysanthemum Design; Artist Unknown, Korea

Title: Bowl with Chrysanthemum Design
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: Stoneware bowl with celadon glaze. The bowl is decorated by an incised line stretching parallel to the rim, bounding a chrysanthemum design below.
Century: 10th-11th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 11th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.220
Medium and Support: stoneware with incised decoration under celadon glaze
relevance: rank 11.05500

Covered jar; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Covered jar
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 10th-11th century
Object Creation Date: 936-1125
Accession Number: 1971/2.71A&B
Medium and Support: earthenware with amber lead glaze
relevance: rank 11.05500

Torso of a Conch Bearer; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Torso of a Conch Bearer
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 10th-11th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 11th century
Accession Number: 1987/1.364
Medium and Support: black stone
relevance: rank 11.05500

Vishnu as Varaha, the Cosmic Boar; India, Central India

Title: Vishnu as Varaha, the Cosmic Boar
Artist: India, Central India
Physical Description: This intricate stele has a large Varaha in the center. He is in the archer’s stance, with his right leg extended and his left leg bent resting on a lotus held up by a male and female snake figures. They have human bodies from the waist up and knotted snake bodies below. Varaha has a human body with the head of a boar, his head thrown back supporting the figure of the earth goddess who holds on to his snout. A lotus leaf acts as an umbrella over his head. Three of his four arms are intact with his right one at his hip holding a broken lotus, only the stem survives, and the two left hands holding a conch at his chest and a discus at his knee. The broken arm held the club and the top of it is still visible next to the pavilion on the left over his shoulder. Besides the two snake figures, three figures stand on the base to either side, the other one female, while the others are male. The inner two hold the conch and discus and can be considered shankhapurausha and cakrapurusha, the personifications of the two weapons. The figure in the center on the left ahs his hand raised over his head and the one on the right holds an arrow. They stand against pilaster forms, each surmounted by a pillared pavilion. To the sides of the pillars, vyalis (a composite animal) decorate the columns, a conventional throne motif and above them on the outside some devotee figures, the one on the right is broken. Against the pillar a broken animal figure is to the right and a seated devotee is seen on the left. The two pavilion forms house gods. The one to the left houses a small four-armed image of Brahma (three of his heads show, the central one with a beard) holding his usual attributes, a ladle for ritual and probably a pot, etc.. That on the right houses a four-armed figure of Shiva holding a trident and other attributes. The top of the stele is broken, but there is a devotee to the left and a row of seven figures all with hand up in a reassuring gesture and the other holding a pot. Could there have been two more and represent the nine planets? They do not appear very different one from the other.
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: circa 10th century
Accession Number: 2002/1.167
Medium and Support: sandstone
relevance: rank 5.43105

Head of a Buddha; Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java

Title: Head of a Buddha
Artist: Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 2001/2.129
Medium and Support: andesite stone
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Prajñâpâramitâ (Buddhist Goddess of Wisdom); Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java

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Title: Prajñâpâramitâ (Buddhist Goddess of Wisdom)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: circa 10th century
Accession Number: 2005/2.76
Medium and Support: bronze with copper, tin and zinc
relevance: rank 5.43105

Ganesa; India, Central India

Title: Ganesa
Artist: India, Central India
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 1983/2.115
Medium and Support: sandstone
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Tara; Artist Unknown, India, Northeastern India

Title: Tara
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Northeastern India
Physical Description: Black schist carved in the relief of Green Tara, a guide and saviouress on the Buddhist path to enlightenment. She holds two lotuses, one open and one closed and makes the gesture of gift-giving with her palm facing outwards, towards the devotee.
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 1981/2.156
Medium and Support: black schist
relevance: rank 5.43105

Vairocana Buddha, Seated in the Mudra of the Union of Six Elements; Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java

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Title: Vairocana Buddha, Seated in the Mudra of the Union of Six Elements
Artist: Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: circa 10th century
Accession Number: 2005/2.78
Medium and Support: bronze with copper, tin and zinc
relevance: rank 5.43105

Tea Bowl; Artist Unknown, Korea

Title: Tea Bowl
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: Stoneware tea bowl with celadon glaze.
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.217
Medium and Support: stoneware with celadon glaze
relevance: rank 5.43105

Vishnu Stele, four-armed Vishnu with two of his attributes personified; Artist Unknown

Title: Vishnu Stele, four-armed Vishnu with two of his attributes personified
Artist: Artist Unknown
Physical Description: Vishnu stand in a strict unbending pose, samabhanga and has four hands. Reading clockwise from the front right hand, he holds lotus, a club, a discus and a conch. The lotus and conch are also personified with full standing figures at the base below his tow front hands, the lotus as a female figure to his right and the conch as a male figure to his left. On the pointed arch behind the figure a flying figure holding garlands is carved in shallow relief to either side of his crown. He wears a diaphanous lower cloth, the folds of the garment are articulated with a flared section down the center. He wears a long garland down to his knees, a sacred thread and various pieces of jewelry, including bracelets, armlets, a necklace and large earrings and an elaborate crown.
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: circa 10th century
Accession Number: 2003/1.385
Medium and Support: black schist
relevance: rank 5.43105

Kubera, god of wealth, seated in lalitasana on double lotus dais; Nepal

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Title: Kubera, god of wealth, seated in lalitasana on double lotus dais
Artist: Nepal
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 2000/2.156
Medium and Support: bronze
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Varahi; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nandu, Kanchipuran

Title: Varahi
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nandu, Kanchipuran
Physical Description: Varahi has a crowned boar’s head on a woman’s body. She sits with her ankles crosses and originally had four arms, the back two have broken away as has the front right hand which had probably been held up in a reassuring gesture. Her left from hand is held down at her left knee with the palm held facing out in a gesture of giving. Her body is softly modeled with a narrow waist and full breasts. She wears jewelry that is in sharp but low relief and includes a series of necklaces forming a collar of decoration and a longer one that falls between her breasts which suggests the sacred thread extending down to her waist at her right. She is naked from the waist up and the lower garment is merely suggested by the heavier folds at the waist. Her head is tilted and her chin/snout had jutted out to the left, but the lower snout is broken away. She wears a conical crown that accents the long diagonal of her face. Originally there was an arch behind the image which would have supported her back arms, so the image would have appeared denser, with only the cut away empty space to the sides of her waist.
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: circa early 10th century
Accession Number: 1960/1.113
Medium and Support: granite
relevance: rank 5.43105

Unidentified Goddess (Tara?); Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java

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Title: Unidentified Goddess (Tara?)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: circa 10th century
Accession Number: 2005/2.75
Medium and Support: bronze with copper, tin and zinc
relevance: rank 5.43105

Bottle; Artist Unknown, Korea

Title: Bottle
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: This dark grayish-blue earthenware vessel is from the Goryeo period. The neck flares out toward the top and the mouth spreads widely out to the side. The neck and body are encircled by two thick incised line. The body has gently sloping sides that flare out and then taper down toward the base.
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.207
Medium and Support: stoneware
relevance: rank 5.43105

Yue ware half of the lid of a box; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Yue ware half of the lid of a box
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 1964/2.3
Medium and Support: stoneware with celadon glaze
relevance: rank 5.43105

Large Storage Jar; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Large Storage Jar
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 1993/1.63
Medium and Support: stoneware with light olive glaze
relevance: rank 5.43105

Seated figure with tripartite crown; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Seated figure with tripartite crown
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 1960/1.134
Medium and Support: terracotta
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Four-Armed Esoteric Deity, probably Avalokitesvara; Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java

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Title: Four-Armed Esoteric Deity, probably Avalokitesvara
Artist: Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: circa 10th century
Accession Number: 2005/2.77
Medium and Support: bronze with copper, tin and zinc
relevance: rank 5.43105

Tea Bowl with Incised Line; Artist Unknown, Korea

Title: Tea Bowl with Incised Line
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: Stoneware tea bowl with celadon glaze and line incised horizontally below the rim.
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 2004/1.216
Medium and Support: stoneware with celadon glaze
relevance: rank 5.43105

Deep bowl with vegetal and calligraphic designs; Iran, Nishapur

Title: Deep bowl with vegetal and calligraphic designs
Artist: Iran, Nishapur
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 1961/1.185
Medium and Support: fritware with painted designs in red, yellow, and dark brown
relevance: rank 5.43105

Bowl with concentric bands of epigraphic decoration; Iran or Transoxiana

Title: Bowl with concentric bands of epigraphic decoration
Artist: Iran or Transoxiana
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 1961/1.184
Medium and Support: earthenware with white slip, red, brown, and green slip painting, clear glaze
relevance: rank 5.43105

Capital from the palace-city of Medinat al-Zahara with stylized acanthus leaves, vine rinceau and fleurons; Artist Unknown, Cordova, Spain

Title: Capital from the palace-city of Medinat al-Zahara with stylized acanthus leaves, vine rinceau and fleurons
Artist: Artist Unknown, Cordova, Spain
Physical Description: This capital, based upon the Roman composite order, features stylized acanthus leaves and rinceau on the bell of the capital, which terminates in a band of bead-and-reel motif on the astragal. This, in turn, is capped by an echinus decorated with three fleurons and vine rinceau on each face as well as four projecting volutes also decorated with rinceau and fleurons. Originally the bell of the capital had two tiers of acanthus leaves, but the capital has been cropped below the top of the first tier and the tips of the leaves, which once curved outward from the surface of the capital, have been sheared off.
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 936-1010
Accession Number: 1979/2.1
Medium and Support: marble
relevance: rank 5.43105

Flask with molded decor; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Flask with molded decor
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 10th-12th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 12th century
Accession Number: 1959/1.89
Medium and Support: molded desig(n) on earthenware (?)
relevance: rank 5.37068

Covered funerary jar in the shape of a lotus bud, with molded and incised design; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Covered funerary jar in the shape of a lotus bud, with molded and incised design
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 10th - 12th century
Object Creation Date: 960-1127
Accession Number: 1971/2.74A
Medium and Support: stoneware with celadon glaze
relevance: rank 5.37068

Temmoku Ware; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Temmoku Ware
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 10th-13th century
Object Creation Date: 960-1279
Accession Number: 1983/1.342
Medium and Support: stoneware with tenmoku glaze
relevance: rank 5.37068

Domed boss surrounded by raised band and dots, field of two phoenixes among flowers and vines, raised border with floral motif and five-lobed edges on both sides.; Artist Unknown, Korea

Title: Domed boss surrounded by raised band and dots, field of two phoenixes among flowers and vines, raised border with floral motif and five-lobed edges on both sides.
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: This mirror features designs of two birds, coupled with floral motifs, positioned symmetrically on the left and right sides. Eight-foiled barbed bronze mirror is general. This type is a modified form of that.
Century: 10th–14th century
Object Creation Date: 918-1392
Accession Number: 1965/2.61
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 5.37068

Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Chinese, Guanyin) with a willow branch and vase; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Chinese, Guanyin) with a willow branch and vase
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 7th-10th century
Object Creation Date: 618-907
Accession Number: 1964/2.20
Medium and Support: Molded terracotta votive plaque
relevance: rank 5.37068

Flask with Lid; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Flask with Lid
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 10th-12th century
Object Creation Date: 936-1125
Accession Number: 1993/1.101.1-2
Medium and Support: earthenware with green lead glaze
relevance: rank 5.37068

Shiva, head; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Shiva, head
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 9th-10th century
Object Creation Date: 9th century - 10th century
Accession Number: 1996/2.47
Medium and Support: stone
relevance: rank 5.37068

Vishnu and Attendants with a Solar Disc in the Background; Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India

Title: Vishnu and Attendants with a Solar Disc in the Background
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
Century: 10th–12th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 12th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.45
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 5.37068

Narrow-neck jug with single handle and molded decorative register at shoulder; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Narrow-neck jug with single handle and molded decorative register at shoulder
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 10th-12th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 12th century
Accession Number: 1959/1.93
Medium and Support: molded terracotta
relevance: rank 5.37068

Mirror, Lion-and-Grape type; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Mirror, Lion-and-Grape type
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 7th-10th century
Object Creation Date: 618-907
Accession Number: 1958/2.73
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 5.37068

Temmoku ware teabowl shard with mottled brown flecks on olive-brown ground; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Temmoku ware teabowl shard with mottled brown flecks on olive-brown ground
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 10th-13th century
Object Creation Date: 960-1279
Accession Number: 1983/1.344
Medium and Support: stoneware with tenmoku (?) glaze
relevance: rank 5.37068

Sancai baby bird; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Sancai baby bird
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 7th-10th century
Object Creation Date: 618-907
Accession Number: 1987/1.288
Medium and Support: earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze
relevance: rank 5.37068

Ewer; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Ewer
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: stoneware flasks with amber glaze on the upper portion and lower portion unglazed, showing white slip
Century: 10th-12th century
Object Creation Date: 936-1125
Accession Number: 1993/1.92
Medium and Support: stoneware with white slip and amber glaze
relevance: rank 5.37068

Ceremonial Blade; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Ceremonial Blade
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 10th - 13th century
Object Creation Date: 960-1279
Accession Number: 1971/2.98
Medium and Support: jade
relevance: rank 5.37068

Temmoku Ware; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Temmoku Ware
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 10th-13th century
Object Creation Date: 960-1279
Accession Number: 1983/1.349
Medium and Support: stoneware with tenmoku glaze
relevance: rank 5.37068

Changsha ware pitcher with globular body, short spout, & appliqued fish design; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Changsha ware pitcher with globular body, short spout, & appliqued fish design
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 7th-10th century
Object Creation Date: 618-907
Accession Number: 1987/2.51
Medium and Support: stoneware
relevance: rank 5.37068