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Title

Cinerary Urn or Reliquary with stamped circle designs

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

This stoneware vessel consists of a bowl and lid. The curved hemispheric lid has a ring-shaped knob in the center and is decorated with stamped design irregularly. The high and hemispheric bowl stands on the low foot with a flat base. This part is also decorated with densely and evenly stamped design.

Century

8th-early 9th century

Object Creation Date

8th century - early 9th century

Accession Number

2004/1.205A&B

Medium and Support

stoneware

relevance

rank 12.61935

Secondary Keywords

ceramics

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Title

Hunping (spirit jar)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Jar with grey-green celadon glaze; top half of vessel is filled with an assortment of figures, birds, and architectural elements in a tiered arrangement.

Century

3rd century

Object Creation Date

3rd century

Accession Number

2000/1.39

Medium and Support

stoneware with celadon glaze

relevance

rank 12.42615

Secondary Keywords

additive and joining processes and techniques

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Title

Cinerary urn with circle-and-dot design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Stoneware jar with natural ash glaze and rounded lid. Along the widest horizontal stretch is an incised circle-and-dot design. A design of concentric circles also loops around just as the rounded curve of the lid begins to flatten into a plateau on which a cintamani style knob rests.

Century

7th century

Object Creation Date

7th century

Accession Number

1973/2.35A&B

Medium and Support

stoneware with stamped decoration

relevance

rank 12.01384

Secondary Keywords

ceremonial containers

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Title

Cinerary urn with concentric circles design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Stoneware jar with natural ash glaze, squat body and lid. Along the widest horizontal stretch is a design of incised concentric circles, with another row above consisting of circles comprised of a pattern of impressions marking the edge of each circle. The convex curve of the lid also contains a row of incised concentric circles, before sloping into a concave valley, and rising up again to a small plateau. It is on this landing that a cintamani style knob rests.

Century

7th-8th century

Object Creation Date

7th century - 8th century

Accession Number

1973/2.34A&B

Medium and Support

stoneware with stamped design and natural ash glaze

relevance

rank 12.01384

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Large storage jar with gourd design

Artist

Artist Unknown, China, Majiayao Culture

Physical Description

This pot has a narrow, cylindrical neck, abruptly giving way to a rounded upper half, tapering gently to a flat bottom, with two small lugs (ring handles) at the waist. Painted decoration is confined to the upper half, perhaps because these pots were set into the earth to keep them upright. The painted designs evoke fish nets and swirling eddies of water.

Artist Life Dates

2600 BCE - 2300 BCE

Century

25th-24th century BCE

Object Creation Date

2600 BCE - 2300 BCE

Accession Number

1993/1.46

Medium and Support

red earthenware with black slip decoration

relevance

rank 11.28461

Secondary Keywords

ceremonial containers

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Title

Sarcophogi, Termessos, Turkey

Artist

Marilyn Bridges

Physical Description

A broken sarcohpogi in Termessos, Turkey.

Artist Life Dates

American, born 1957

Object Creation Date

2004

Accession Number

2012/2.62

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 11.27310

Secondary Keywords

ceremonial containers

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Title

Cinerary urn with triangular circle-and-dot design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

Stoneware jar with natural ash glaze and bell-shaped lid. Along the widest horizontal stretch of the base is an incised circle-and-dot design. A variation on this pattern also loops around the lid, topped by a line marking a ring along the surface of the lid, and incised lines extending outward from a button-shaped knob.

Century

7th century

Object Creation Date

7th century

Accession Number

1973/2.36A&B

Medium and Support

stoneware with stamped and incised decoration and natural ash glaze

relevance

rank 11.03233

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Jewish Funeral, Jerusalem, Israel

Artist

Leonard Freed

Physical Description

A group of Hassidic men standing over a body covered in a cloth. There are windows behind them.

Object Creation Date

1972

Accession Number

2014/2.332

Medium and Support

vintage gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 10.95663

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A tall glazed and speckled gray porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder which widens at the top into a shallow dish. At the bottom of the base as well as a circle on the top of the dish there is some discoloration and morphing of the ceramic, most likely through use.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.39

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 10.85332

Secondary Keywords

asian

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east asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A tall glazed and speckled white-blue porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder. Where the base of the dish and the top of the base meet there is a bowl-shape ring as the bottom of the dish and a wide angled lip that surrounds it.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.41

Medium and Support

ceramic

relevance

rank 10.85332

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A short glazed and speckled gray porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder which at the top is attached to a shallow dish. At the bottom of the base as well as a circle on the top of the dish there is some discoloration and morphing of the ceramic.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.44

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 10.85332

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A glazed porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a narrow tapered cylinder with a ridged pattern on it. On top of it is a wide and shallow dish.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.46

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 10.85332

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A glazed porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide cylinder which tapers sharply into a narrow top. The base supports a wide, almost flat disk as the bowl.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.48

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 10.85332

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A short glazed and speckled gray porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a small, tapered cylinder which then becomes the base of a slighlt deep dish. The gray glaze has some green coloration throughout the piece.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.40

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 10.85332

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A tall glazed and speckled white-blue porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder. The dish a the top is quite wide and shallow until it reaches the point of the base, where there is a deep hole in the cylinder of the base.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.43

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 10.85332

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A tall glazed and speckled porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a narrow and sharply tapered cylinder which meets an angular bottom of a dish. The dish itself is wide and shallow.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.45

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 10.85332

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Altar Dish

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

A glazed and speckled porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide decorated cylinder which tapers sharply into a narrow top. The base supports a wide, shallow bowl.

Object Creation Date

1000-1800

Accession Number

2009/2.47

Medium and Support

glazed porcelain

relevance

rank 10.85332

Secondary Keywords

asian

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east asian

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Title

Kadampa Stupa

Artist

Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal

Physical Description

A miniature stupa, cast of bronze in several parts, consisting of a bell-shaped base; an inverted cone-shaped tower, capped by an "umbrella" with pendant, fringe-like decoration, inlaid with semi-percious stone, surmounted by a lotus bud. Atop the whole structure is a half-moon and sun disk motif, supported by intertwined ribbons and culminating in another lotus bud.

Century

13th century

Object Creation Date

13th century

Accession Number

2003/1.386

Medium and Support

bronze with inlaid turquoise and coral

relevance

rank 9.69912

Secondary Keywords

asian

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south asian

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Title

Leaf from a book of hours with a funeral mass

Artist

Gold Scrolls Group

Physical Description

This miniature painting depicts a group of male figures gathered around a coffin draped with a blue cloth. Two pairs of candles set on tall candlesticks are placed at the head and foot of the coffin. To the left of the coffin stand four mourners wearing long gray robes with hoods. Facing them from the other side of the coffin are three tonsured clergymen dressed in white, who look at an open book placed before them. The group stands upon a green tiled floor next to a pink wall. The background is painted red and decorated with an exuberant pattern of gold scrolling foliage motifs.

Artist Life Dates

active circa 1415-1450

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1415-1455

Accession Number

1993/2.8

Medium and Support

ink, tempera, gold, and silver alloy on parchment

relevance

rank 9.54787

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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Title

Stupa: Hyakuman tô (one of one million pagodas)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

Wooden miniture model of a tower, comprised of a round base, a bar in the middle where three larger discs and six or seven small discs are inserted. A bulb-shaped ornament rests on top.

Century

8th century

Object Creation Date

764-770

Accession Number

1969/2.21

Medium and Support

carved wood with traces of gesso

relevance

rank 9.01574

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Title

Study for a Chapel in Vienna

Artist

Andrea Pozzo

Physical Description

This study depicts a rectangular chapel with the side walls bent outward at an angle in order to provide a clearer view of the decoration. The chapel design centers upon a sarcophagus placed beneath a painted altarpiece of the Virgin and Child, which are both set within a semicircular architectural projection that extends dynamically from the wall. On the left the pair of angels that support a large oval-shaped painting reach vigorously outward, their wings overlapping the pilasters. On the right appears another sarcophagus surmounted by a pair of putti. Leaning out from the oval niche above the sarcophagus is a female half-figure—probably a portrait of the deceased—making a gesture of devotion toward the altar.

Artist Life Dates

1642-1709

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1662-1709

Accession Number

1960/2.124

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 8.92317

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Censer with Maltese crosses, birds, and columns

Artist

Artist Unknown, Coptic, Egypt

Physical Description

The body of this cylindrical censer is decorated with eight columns spaced at regular intervals. The lid of the censer consists of an openwork dome divided into sections by eight vertical ribs that converge at its apex. An arched horizontal band intersects the midpoint of the ribs, and these eight junctures are marked with a projecting bird that holds a small bronze ball dangling from its beak. Two segments of the dome are decorated with Maltese crosses while another two feature curved plant forms. The apex is surmounted by a finial comprised of a globe topped by a Maltese cross on which a bird holding a piece of fruit perches.

Century

6th-7th century

Object Creation Date

500-699

Accession Number

1960/2.4

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 8.39630

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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 7.87339

Secondary Keywords

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