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Title

Blue-and-white bowl with floral scroll design

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

15th century

Accession Number

1971/2.111

Medium and Support

porcelain with blue underglaze painting

relevance

rank 5.92511

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Title

Stiff Box 12

Artist

Lucas Samaras

Physical Description

Made of thick steel, this sculpture has two very distinct halves. One on side, the thick sheet of steel gracefully curves around and back on itself, making loops and rounded edges. On the reverse, the steel is angular, jagged, and sharp, jutting into the spaces in the sculpture's interior and the space around the whole. At the very center of the piece, along the implied dividing line between the two sides, is a relatively small box.

Artist Life Dates

American, born Greece, 1936

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1971

Accession Number

1997/1.138

Medium and Support

Cor-Ten steel

relevance

rank 5.91367

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Title

Changsha ware bird-shaped water dropper

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

9th century

Object Creation Date

9th century

Accession Number

1987/1.311

Medium and Support

stoneware with brown iron glaze

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rank 5.90751

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Title

Blue-and-white ewer with silver fittings & floral design, Yongle era (1403–25)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Ewer decorated floral scrolls in fine blue-and-white and a slim handle. The original spout broke off and a silver replacement and lid are later additions.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1403-1425

Accession Number

1968/1.50

Medium and Support

porcelain with underglaze cobalt decoration, silver spout and lid

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rank 5.90751

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Title

La Marchande de Moutarde, one of the "Twelve Etchings from Nature," or the "French Set"

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Physical Description

A young woman at the left stands at the threshold of a stone doorway; in the interior beyond her, a woman in a white cap is preparing a jar at a desk or counter. Above the desk is a row of jars on a shelf.

Artist Life Dates

1834-1903

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1858

Accession Number

1954/1.329

Medium and Support

etching, printed in black ink on Japan paper, laid down on white wove plate paper

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rank 5.87920

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Title

Blue-and-white covered box with floral and geometric designs

Artist

Kiln Unknown, Vietnam

Physical Description

A melon-shaped stoneware box with a lid, the shape slightly faceted on the sides and the lid concave to a disk-shape center. The box is decorated with freehand floral and geometric designs in blue cobalt pigment, and then a whitish glaze was applied to the whole.

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

16th century

Accession Number

1993/2.23.1-2

Medium and Support

stoneware with blue underglaze painting

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rank 5.87847

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Title

Ovoid vase

Artist

Kawai Kanjirô

Artist Life Dates

(1890 - 1966)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1937-1938

Accession Number

2003/2.15

Medium and Support

stoneware with iron glaze; scallop design created with wax resist

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rank 5.87847

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Title

Maebyeong (wine storage jar) with design cranes, butterflies, & stylized clouds

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

The vase has a slightly outward-turned rim and a short neck. The elegantly-shaped bottle flares out to a broad shoulder, then tapers gradually to a slim waist before flaring out once more at the base. The shoulder, mid-belly and base of the vase are decorated with black and white clay-inlaid cloud, crane and butterfly motifs.

Century

12th century

Object Creation Date

12th century

Accession Number

1972/2.80

Medium and Support

Stoneware with inlaid with white and black slip under celadon glaze

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rank 5.87697

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Title

Blue-and-white small jar with peony and 'cloud collar' designs

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2004/1.285

Medium and Support

porcelain with blue underglaze painting

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rank 5.87418

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Title

Round-Bottomed Jar with Wide Flared Mouth

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Spherical stoneware jar with an elongated neck and wide flaring mouth. Two indented bands stretch across the base of the neck and repeat halfway up the neck as it flares outward.

Century

5th-6th century

Object Creation Date

5th century - 6th century

Accession Number

2004/1.183

Medium and Support

unglazed stoneware with incised decoration

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rank 5.87386

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Title

Round-Bottomed Jar with Straight Mouth

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A sturdy, well-potted stoneware jar, with a spherical bottom, a sharply angled shoulder, and a wide slightly flaring mouth. The decoration consists of four bands of combed wavy lines: one at the waist, one at the shoulder, and two on the neck. The neck bands are bordered by three ridges, a double ridge topmost.

Century

5th century

Object Creation Date

5th century

Accession Number

2004/1.172

Medium and Support

unglazed stoneware with combed decoration

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rank 5.87386

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Title

Buncheong ware shallow bowl with stamped, inlaid floral designs

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

It has a relatively wide mouth for its height and slighly surving sides. Originally, this tpye of bowl was first produced in celadon in the late Goryeo period and was made in large numbers in buncheong ware during the early Joseon period. The foot is shallow and roughly trimmed.

Century

15th-16th century

Object Creation Date

15th century - 16th century

Accession Number

1962/1.92

Medium and Support

Stoneware with celadon glaze and inlaid stamped designs

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rank 5.86649

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Title

The Terrace, Luxembourg

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Physical Description

Six figures, women and girls, sit or stand in front of a balustrade. On the left side is an urn holding a plant; the upper portion of a young tree projects above the balustrade at center; in the distance on the right appears the upper portion of a building with a mansard roof

Artist Life Dates

1834-1903

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1894

Accession Number

1954/1.448

Medium and Support

transfer lithograph with stumping on laid paper

relevance

rank 5.85865

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Title

One of two small blue-and-white jarlets, decorated with lions frolicking among clouds

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1600-1640s

Accession Number

1977/2.12

Medium and Support

porcelain with blue underglaze painting

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rank 5.85004

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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

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rank 5.84904

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Title

Frosted Vase

Artist

Jill Bedford

Physical Description

Vase with a pink flower laying down on the surface.

Object Creation Date

1985

Accession Number

2013/1.235

Medium and Support

chromogenic print on paper

relevance

rank 5.84329

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Title

Flores Negras (Black Flowers)

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

A woodblock print on toned paper. The image is of four black potted flowers with broad leaves, casting shadows on the pot and the surface on which it stands.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

1956

Accession Number

2011/2.95

Medium and Support

woodblock print on paper

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rank 5.84329

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Title

Inro (four-case medicine box), ojime, and netsuke of Hanshan?

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1972/2.103

Medium and Support

lacquer on wood with ivory ojime and netsuke

relevance

rank 5.83938

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Title

Blue-and-white water dropper with landscape design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

It is simple in shape, like a donut but with a sharply trimmed rim in the manner of a metal vessel. The hole in the middle is believed to be a symbol of Eastern philosophy. Designs are painted on the surface in cobalt blue pigment.

Century

17th–18th century

Object Creation Date

late 17th century - early 18th century

Accession Number

1965/2.57

Medium and Support

porcelain with blue underglaze painting

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rank 5.83938

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Title

Blue-and-white bowl with pine tree designs

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

mid 18th century

Accession Number

2004/1.289

Medium and Support

porcelain with blue underglaze painting

relevance

rank 5.83658

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Title

Blue-and-white miniature jar with stylized floral design

Artist

Kiln Unknown, Vietnam

Physical Description

A small, stoneware jar of squat proportions, with a narrow, upright neck and a short, cylindricrical foot. The jar is decorated with loosely drawn floral patterns in cobalt blue underneath an overalll whitish glaze.

This jar makes an interesting contrast to 2002/2.18, which has a very similar design in a crisp, dark blue; the faded, smudged blue here may be a result of less than ideal conditions in the kiln.

Century

13th-15th century

Object Creation Date

13th century - 15th century

Accession Number

2002/2.19

Medium and Support

stoneware with blue underglaze painting

relevance

rank 5.82855

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Title

Blue-and-white miniature jar with stylized floral design

Artist

Kiln Unknown, Vietnam

Physical Description

A small, stoneware jar of squat proportions, with a narrow, upright neck and a short, cylindricrical foot. The jar is decorated with loosely drawn floral patterns in cobalt blue underneath an overalll whitish glaze.

Century

13th-15th century

Object Creation Date

13th century - 15th century

Accession Number

2002/2.18

Medium and Support

stoneware with blue underglaze painting

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rank 5.82855

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Title

Wooden Bowl

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A large and oblong rectangular carved wooden bowl with rounded ends.

Object Creation Date

1875-1925

Accession Number

2009/2.30

Medium and Support

wood

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rank 5.82601

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Title

Farmer's Lunchbox

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A rectangluar box woven with bamboo. There is a strip of bamboo with a clasp to keep the basket closed and in one piece. Used as a fermer's lunchbox.

Object Creation Date

1875-1925

Accession Number

2009/2.50

Medium and Support

bamboo

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rank 5.82601

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Title

Pipe Bowl

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon

Century

early 20th century

Object Creation Date

early 20th century

Accession Number

2000/2.116

Medium and Support

terracotta

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rank 5.82601

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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

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rank 5.81867

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Title

Floral Still Life

Artist

Hans Zatzka

Physical Description

A wide gladd vase rests upon a table partly covered by a cloth in a blue pattern. The vase contains a tall floral arrangement. Some flowed include pink, white, red and yellow roses, hydrageas, and lillies, among other flowers and greens. Floating around the flowers are three blue and white butterflies. The background behind the flower arrangement transitions from an almost black background from the left to a distant landscape scene, either through a window view or a painting.

Artist Life Dates

1859-1945

Object Creation Date

1877-1977

Accession Number

2009/2.92

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 5.80999

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Title

Pulqueria

Artist

Manuel Carrillo

Artist Life Dates

(1906 - 1989)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

1981/2.11

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 5.80681

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Title

Blue-and-white octagonal water dropper with floral design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

It is in the shape of a flat disk with octagonal sides, a type that was widely produced in the 19th century. The center of the top surface features a flower petal in a darkish cobalt blue pigment. A pale blue glaze applied over the entire surface, but has a slightly hue. The pigment used on the flower is also applied around the edgesof the octagon, more heavily so in the corners.

Century

17th-19th century

Object Creation Date

17th century - 19th century

Accession Number

1977/1.197

Medium and Support

porcelain with blue underglaze painting

relevance

rank 5.80257

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Title

Imari vase in the shape of a double gourd, with overall design of chrysanthemums

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

This vase takes the shape of a double gourd, with a large pear-shaped bottom topped by a smaller oval shape. The vase is decorated with overgalze enamels, primarily with an overall pattern of chrysanthemums. The design is also interspersed with plum blossoms, peonies, and auspicious birds.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1820-1850

Accession Number

2002/2.11

Medium and Support

porcelain, blue underglaze and enamel overglaze

relevance

rank 5.79328

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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

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rank 5.79077

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Title

Preserve Jar with Lid

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Dark brown glaze has been dripped over the pot from above, allowing it to flow unevenly so that the lighter clay body shows through in an unpredictable pattern. The jar appears rounded in gradations, and has a small circular lid, as well as base.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2004/1.294A&B

Medium and Support

Stoneware with mottled dark brown glaze

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rank 5.78664

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Title

Red Raku ware shallow tea bowl

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

This squat bowl is not smooth but has subtle irregularities in texture and shape, intentionally highlighted by the brilliant red glaze.

Century

19th century?

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1954/1.536

Medium and Support

earthenware with red glaze

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rank 5.77874

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Title

Shaving bowl with design of long-tail bird and flowers

Artist

Artist Unknown, Imari ware, Japan

Physical Description

A medium size, shallow bowl with a semi-circular cut out on the rim. The bowl has flat surface on the rim and is concaved in the middle like a soup bowl. It has two holes on the opposite side of the cut out and a short foot. There is a blue band around the rim. There are two long-tailed birds in red, pale orange and yellow, perched on a blue pine tree which grows underneath the birds. Behind the pine tree trunk, there is a cherry tree in full blossom, its brunches extends in circle around the rim. The cherry tree and blossoms are in red, pale orange and yellow. More cherry flowers adorn the background of the birds. There are also red peonies on the left side of the pine tree; peony flowers also appear as spray on the four sides of the rim, backed by blue cloud design.

Century

Mid-17th century

Object Creation Date

mid 17th century

Accession Number

2002/2.7

Medium and Support

porcelain, blue underglaze, and enamel overglaze painting

relevance

rank 5.76586

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Title

Imari bowl with design of irises, horses, and blossoming cherries

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

late 19th century

Accession Number

2002/2.17

Medium and Support

Porcelain with enamel overglaze painting

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rank 5.76536

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Title

Large Ovoid Vase with Bamboo Design

Artist

Hamada Shôji

Physical Description

Ovoid stoneware vase with brown iron glaze and bamboo design stretching diagonally across the height of the vase. A short, tapered neck flares iinto a wide rimmed opening.

Artist Life Dates

(1894 - 1978)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1930-1950

Accession Number

2003/2.16

Medium and Support

stoneware with iron glaze; bamboo design created with wax resist

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rank 5.75911

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Title

Bowl

Artist

Rude Osolnik

Physical Description

oval-shaped wood bowl with dipped lip; wood grain and spalt lines highly visible across surface

Artist Life Dates

(active Dawson, New Mexico, 1915 - 2001, Berea, Kentucky)

Century

late 20th century

Object Creation Date

1998

Accession Number

2002/2.173

Medium and Support

spalted maple

relevance

rank 5.75911

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Title

Page, from "Photograph Album of the Holy Land: St. Anne's Church"

Artist

Felix Bonfils

Artist Life Dates

1831-1885

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1860-1885

Accession Number

1994/2.28.1

Medium and Support

nine albumen prints on mounted in paper bound album

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rank 5.75612

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Title

Bowl with Double-Parrot Design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Stoneware teabowl with celadon glaze. A pair of parrots is incised on he inside of the bowl, as well as a line that runs slightly below and parallel to the rim.

Century

11th century

Object Creation Date

11th century

Accession Number

2004/1.213

Medium and Support

stoneware with incised decoration under celadon glaze

relevance

rank 5.75082

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Title

Tulip-shaped Vase (base broken off)

Artist

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Physical Description

This vase is in the form of a flower. The "petals" of the vessel are of folded iridescent glass in shades of gold, pink, and green. The slender green "stem" continues to the base, also in green glass.

Artist Life Dates

1848-1933

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1896-1900

Accession Number

1972/2.207

Medium and Support

opalescent and iridescent glass

relevance

rank 5.75082

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Title

Liber Studiorum. 59. VIlle de Thun

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artist Life Dates

1775-1851

Century

18th-19th century

Object Creation Date

1775-1851

Accession Number

1957/1.36

Medium and Support

mezzotint and etching on paper

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rank 5.74242

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Title

Wine Bottle with Sgraffito Foliage Design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Pear-shaped stoneware wine bottle with white slip and sgraffito designs. Stylized foliage is incised across the main register of the body, separated from the register above by two incised bands. Above this are perhaps incised stylized petals, and separating them from the flared lip of the bottle are two more incised bands. The incisions reveal the gray clay beneath the white slip.

Century

15th-16th century

Object Creation Date

15th century - 16th century

Accession Number

2004/1.264

Medium and Support

stoneware with brushed incised decoration on white slip under colorless glaze

relevance

rank 5.73534

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Title

Bowl with tenmoku glaze and floral roundels

Artist

Hamada Shôji

Physical Description

Shallow bowl with unglazed foot. Body of the bowl is decorated with a brown glaze, with circular area on interior of bowl areas where wax resist was applied and tan shows through. In these circles are painted brown stylized floral designs.

Artist Life Dates

(Tokyo, 1894 - 1978, Mashiko)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1960

Accession Number

1964/1.81

Medium and Support

stoneware with tenmoku glaze with wax resist floral roundels

relevance

rank 5.71488

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Title

Bowl with painted petal design on exterior

Artist

Artist Unknown, Iran

Physical Description

A deep bowl with wide-mouth and small base.

Century

14th century

Object Creation Date

14th century

Accession Number

1957/1.74

Medium and Support

earthenware with glaze

relevance

rank 5.71480

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Title

Dance, from Spherical series

Artist

Christian Burchard

Physical Description

wood orb vessel

Artist Life Dates

born Germany, 1955

Century

late 20th century

Object Creation Date

1996

Accession Number

2002/2.125

Medium and Support

madrone burl

relevance

rank 5.71457

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Title

#4

Artist

Mark Lindquist

Physical Description

rough-hewn oversized wood bowl in natural state with spalt, marks, holes, etc.

Artist Life Dates

born 1949

Century

late 20th century

Object Creation Date

1994

Accession Number

2002/2.155

Medium and Support

oak burl

relevance

rank 5.71457

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Title

Wormwood Vase

Artist

Dale Nish

Physical Description

small sandblasted wood vase displaying holes and trails eaten by worms

Artist Life Dates

(active Cardston, Alberta, Canada, 1932 - )

Century

late 20th century

Object Creation Date

1997

Accession Number

2002/2.172

Medium and Support

wormy ash

relevance

rank 5.71457

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Title

Black Palm

Artist

Dewey Garrett

Physical Description

black dyed wood vase with exggerated texture fibers

Artist Life Dates

(active California, 1969 - )

Century

late 20th century

Object Creation Date

1997

Accession Number

2002/2.137

Medium and Support

dyed palm wood

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rank 5.71457

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Title

Pipe Bowl

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Ethiopia, Anuak

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1960

Accession Number

1985/2.36

Medium and Support

ceramic

relevance

rank 5.71101

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Large Porcelain "Guan" Jar , Baluster Form

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

The short vertical neck is decorated with a key motif repeat. The shoulders are decorated with a tapered lappet device repeat. The open large scale decoration features two mythical kylin in a suggested landscape of mountains. The opposing side depicts a moonlit valley with assorted foliage and stylized clouds. The base is unglazed with turning marks and discolored with good evidence of age.

Object Creation Date

circa 1573-1619

Accession Number

2009/2.109

Medium and Support

porcelain

relevance

rank 5.70961

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