Works of Art (260)
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Adam, modeled in 1880; this bronze case in 1910, Auguste Rodin (French), Bronze (11.173.1) |
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Altar to the Hand (Ikegobo), late 18th century, Nigeria; Edo peoples, court of Benin, Bronze (1979.206.218) |
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Anklet, Meroitic period, 100–250, Meroitic; from Faras, Lower Nubia, cemetery 1, grave 186, Bronze (26.4.110a) |
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Apollo, ca. 1595–97, Adriaen de Vries (Netherlandish), Bronze (41.190.534) |
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Aquamanile in the Form of a Mounted Knight, late 13th century, German; Made in Saxony, Bronze (64.101.1492) |
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Aquamanile: Aristotle Ridden by Phyllis, ca. 1400, Southern Netherlands or Eastern France (Lorraine), Bronze (1975.1.1416) |
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Ardhanarishvara (Composite of Shiva and Parvati), Pre-Angkor period, 7th–8th century,
Cambodia,
Bronze (1993.387.4) |
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Arrowheads, early 1st millennium B.C., Caucasus Mountain region, Bronze (1991.314.3-.8) |
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Astronomical Table Clock, second quarter of 16th century, German; Made in Augsburg, Case of gilt bronze and gilt brass; movement of gilt brass and steel (17.190.747) |
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Asymmetrical wine container (hu), 8th century B.C., North central China, Bronze (49.135.9 a) |
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Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion Seated in Royal Ease, Angkor period, Khmer style of Banteay Srei, fourth quarter of 10th–first quarter of 11th century, Cambodia or Thailand, Bronze with silver inlay (1992.336) |
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Bacchante and Infant Faun, 1893–94; this cast 1894, Frederick William MacMonnies (American), Bronze (97.19) |
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Bell (dotaku), late Yayoi period, 1st–2nd century, Japan, Bronze (18.68) |
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Bell inscribed with the Urartian royal name Argishti, 786–756 B.C., Eastern Anatolia or Northwestern Iran, Urartian, Bronze, iron (1977.186) |
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Bell, Eastern Zhou dynasty, late Spring and Autumn period, early 5th century B.C., China, Bronze (1988.20.7) |
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Belt Buckle, 550–600, Visigothic, Copper alloy, cells inset with garnets, glass, lapis lazuli, and cuttlefish bone (1988.305 ab) |
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Belt buckle, Xiongnu type, 3rd–2nd century B.C., North China, Gilt bronze (18.33.1) |
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Belt clasp, 1st–3rd century A.D., Caucasus region (Georgia), Bronze (21.166.5) |
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Belt fragment of animals, 7th century B.C., Northwestern Iran, possibly Gushi, Bronze (52.123) |
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Belt plaque with three ibexes, Xiongnu type, 2nd–1st century B.C., Northwest China, Bronze (28.68.4) |
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Bird handles from a bowl or basin, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C.,
Northwestern Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu,
Bronze (61.100.3a,b) |
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Bottle (kundika), Koryô dynasty, 10th century, Korea, Bronze (23.115) |
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Bow-shaped fitting, 13th–10th century B.C., Northwest China, Bronze (26.203.2) |
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Bowl with handles terminating in lotuses, ca. 850–750 B.C.; Cypro-Geometric III, Cypriot; Said to be from Kourion, Bronze (74.51.5673) |
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Bowl, 12th–13th century; Ghaznavid, Afghanistan, High tin bronze, cast, hammered, chased, punched, and engraved (2000.57) |
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Box mirror with the head of Pan, late 4th century B.C.; Hellenistic,
Greek, Bronze (25.78.44a-d) |
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Boy and Duck, 1895–96; this cast, 1901, Frederick William MacMonnies (American), Bronze (22.61) |
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Brazier, second half of 13th century, Mamluk, Rasulid; Egypt, Cast bronze inlaid with silver (91.1.540) |
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The Bronco Buster, 1895; revised 1909; this cast, by November 1910,
Frederic Remington (American),
Bronze (39.65.45) |
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The Bronze Age, also known as The Vanquished, modeled 1876, this bronze cast ca. 1906, Auguste Rodin (French), Bronze (07.127) |
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Bronze footbath with stand, late 5th–early 4th century B.C.,
Greek,
Bronze (38.11.5a,b)
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Bronze hydria (water jar), 4th century B.C.; Classical,
Greek, Bronze (44.11.9) |
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Bronze hydria (water jar), 5th century B.C.; Classical,
Greek (06.1078) |
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Bronze hydria (water jar), late 7th–early 6th century B.C.,
Greek, Bronze (1995.92) |
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Bronze hydria (water jar), mid-5th century B.C.; Classical,
Greek, Bronze (26.50) |
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Bronze kylix (drinking cup), 4th–3rd century B.C.,
Greek,
Bronze (07.286.97) |
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Bronze oinochoe, mid-6th century B.C.,
Greek,
Bronze (1997.158)
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Bronze pointed neck-amphora with stand, ca. 500–450 B.C.,
Greek, Bronze (2004.171a,b)
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Bronze rod tripod stand, early 6th century B.C.
Greek,
Bronze (1997.145.1)
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Bronze rod tripod, ca. 1250–1050 B.C.; Late Bronze Age, Cypriot; Said to be from Kourion, Bronze (74.51.5684) |
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Bronze waterspout in the form of a lion mask, ca. 100 B.C.–100 A.D.; late Hellenistic or early Roman; Greco-Roman style, Greco-Roman; From Cyprus, Bronze (74.51.5677) |
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Brooch in the form of a stag, late 3rd–early 4th century, Caucasus region, Bronze (21.166.3) |
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Buckle with Seated Couple, ca. 1200, Mosan, Gilded bronze (47.101.48) |
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Buckle, Buckle, 2nd century B.C.; European Iron Age, Celto-Iberian; Spain, Leaded bronze, silver, iron (1990.62 ab) |
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Buddha sheltered by a naga, Angkor period, 12th century, Cambodia, Bronze (1987.424.19ab) |
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Buddha, Gupta period, second half of 6th century, India (probably Bihar), Bronze (69.222) |
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Buddha, probably Vairochana (Piluzhena), Liao dynasty, early 11th century,
China,
Gilt bronze (2006.284) |
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Buddhist Guardian Mahabala, Eastern Javanese period, 11th century, Indonesia (Java), Bronze (1995.570.4) |
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The Burghers of Calais, modeled 1884–95; this bronze cast 1985, Auguste Rodin (French), Bronze (1989.407) |
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Candlesticks, 1735–50,
French (Paris),
Gilt bronze (1999.370.1a,b,.2a,b)
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Casket (cofanetto or scrigno), ca. 1570–90,
Venice,
Beech wood, partially gilded and painted rosewood veneer; gold powder, gold leaf, silver flakes, silver-gilt, bronze, and yellow metal (57.25ab) |
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Cat, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 400–30 B.C., Egyptian, Bronze (56.16.1) |
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Ceremonial object in the form of an ax head, 500 B.C.–300 A.D., Indonesia (Sulawesi), Bronze (1993.525) |
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Chariot, ca. 550–525 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, ivory (03.23.1) |
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The Cheyenne, 1901; this cast, by March 1907, Frederic Remington (American), Bronze (07.80) |
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A Chief of the Multnomah Tribe, 1903; this cast, ca. 1907, Hermon Atkins MacNeil (American), Bronze (39.65.54a,b) |
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Choosing of the Arrow, 1849,
Henry Kirke Brown (American),
Copper alloy (2005.405a–d) |
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Cista with Amazonomachy, 4th–3rd centuries B.C., Italic, Bronze (96.18.1) |
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Cista with Herakles Amazonomachy, 4th–3rd centuries B.C., Italic, Bronze (22.84.2) |
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Coins of Titus, Trajan, and Hadrian, 80–81, 105–7, 134–38 A.D.; Flavian, Trajanic, Hadrianic, Roman, Bronze and gold (99.35.177) |
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Container with spiral decoration, Bronze and Iron Age, Late period, 300 B.C.–200 A.D., Thailand, Bronze (2000.284.53) |
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Curb Bit, ca. 1350, Spanish, Iron, bronze, enameled and gilt (04.3.478a,b) |
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Dancer in the Role of Harlequin, cast in 1920 from a wax sculpture modeled probably ca. 1884–85, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, number 39/A (29.100.411) |
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Dancer Looking at the Sole of Her Right Foot, cast in 1920 from a plaster cast of ca. 1900, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, number 40/A (29.100.377) |
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David with the Head of Goliath, 15th century (1470–80),
Bartolomeo Bellano (Italian, Paduan),
Gilt bronze, oil gilding of later date (64.304.1) |
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Deified king (?), Angkor period, second half of 11th century; Khmer style of the Baphuon, Cambodia, Gilt bronze with silver inlay (1988.355) |
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Descending Night, ca. 1914; this cast, by 1917, Adolph Alexander Weinman (American), Bronze (1994.501) |
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Diadem, 1200–800 B.C.; Bronze Age, East-central Europe, Carpathian Basin region, Copper alloy (2000.281.1) |
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Diana, 1888–89; this cast, 1890, Frederick William MacMonnies (American), Bronze (27.21.9) |
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Diana, 1892–93; this cast, 1928, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze, gilt (28.101) |
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Diana, 1893–94; this cast, 1894 or after, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze (1985.353) |
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Dish, ca. 1600, India, Deccan, Bijapur, Bronze, tinned (1983.227) |
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Disk with running dogs surrounding a mountain goat, 1st–3rd century A.D., Caucasus region, Bronze (21.166.1) |
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Dragonesque Brooch, 1st century, Provincial Roman, probably made in Britain,> Bronze with champlevé enamel (1980.450) |
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Dressed Dancer at Rest, Hands Behind Her Back, Right Leg Forward, cast in 1920 from a wax and cork sculpture modeled possibly ca. 1895 or later, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, number 51/A (29.100.392) |
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Drum model with four frogs, Dongson culture, 300 B.C.–200 A.D. Vietnam Bronze (2000.284.57) |
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Ear probe, Roman,
Cypriot,
Bronze (74.51.5491) |
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Ecce Puer (Behold the Child), 1906, Medardo Rosso (Italian), Bronze (1990.304) |
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Ewer, 11th century, Found at the Tepe Madraseh, Nishapur, Iran, Bronze, cast and engraved (38.40.240) |
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Ewer, 7th century, Iran, Bronze, cast, chased, and inlaid (47.100.90) |
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Ewer, 7th–6th century B.C., Phoenician; [Spain?], Bronze (55.121.1) |
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Ewer, 8th–early 9th century, Probably Syria, Bronze, cast, engraved, and pierced (41.65) |
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Female bust, second quarter of 18th century,
French,
Gilt bronze (07.225.510.118)
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Fibula, 8th–7th century B.C., Central Anatolia, Phrygia, Bronze (1970.231.1) |
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Figure of a bull, ca. mid- to late 1st millennium B.C., Southwestern Arabia, Bronze (47.100.85) |
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Filatrice, 1850; this cast, after 1850, Henry Kirke Brown (American), Bronze (1993.13) |
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Final Study of the Monument to Balzac, modeled 1897, this bronze cast 1972, Auguste Rodin (French), Bronze (1984.364.15) |
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First Arabesque Penchée, cast in 1920 from a wax sculpture modeled probably before ca. 1890, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, number 2/A (29.100.398) |
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Foundation peg in the shape of the forepart of a lion, 2200–2000 B.C., Probably Tell Mozan (ancient Urkish), northeastern Syria, Bronze (48.180) |
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Fountain Figure of a Winged Infant, ca. 1440, Italian (Florence), Gilt bronze (1983.356) |
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Fountain, 17th century, Attributed to India, Deccan, Cast bronze (1997.150) |
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Four deities from a Vajradhatu (Diamond World) Mandala, Eastern Javanese period, fourth quarter of 10th–first half of 11th century, Indonesia (Java, Nganjuk), Bronze (1987.142.5, 7-9) |
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Four-armed Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, ca. second quarter of 8th century, Prakhon Chai, Buriram Province, Thailand, Bronze with silver and black glass or obsidian inlay in eyes (67.234) |
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The Freedman, 1863; this cast, 1891, John Quincy Adams Ward (American), Bronze (1979.394) |
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Frog Fountain, 1901; this cast, by 1906, Janet Scudder (American), Bronze (06.967) |
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Front of a cuirass, 4th century B.C., Greek, Apulian, Bronze (1992.180.3a) |
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The Genius of the Dance, 1872,
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French), Bronze (1970.171) |
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Girl Braiding Her Hair, 1600–1610,
Barthélemy Prieur (French),
Bronze with red-brown lacquer patina (1982.60.126)
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Great Teacher Marpa, early 12th century, Tibet, Bronze with copper and silver inlays and gold plugs (1995.176) |
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Grotesque, 2nd century B.C.–1st century A.D.; Hellenistic, Greek, Bronze, (12.229.6) |
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Handle of a hydria, early 6th century B.C., Greek, Bronze (06.1093) |
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Handles and rim of a cauldron, ca. 1300–1050; Late Bronze Age, Cypriot, Bronze (74.51.5685) |
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Head of a griffin from a cauldron, third quarter of 7th century B.C.,
Greek (from Olympia),
Bronze (1972.118.54) |
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Head of a youth, third quarter of 5th century B.C.; Classical, Greek, Bronze (29.48) |
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Head of Ptolemy II or III, Ptolemaic Period, reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes, ca. 246–221 B.C.,
Egyptian,
Bronze (66.99.134) |
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Head of Victory, 1897–1903; this cast, 1907, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze (07.90) |
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Helmet (Spangenhelm), 6th century, Ostrogothic, Bronze-gilt, iron (42.50.1) |
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Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings, 14th century B.C.; Middle Elamite period, Southwestern Iran, Bronze (63.74) |
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Helmet, late 7th century B.C.; Archaic, Greek, Cretan, Bronze (1989.281.49) |
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Horse at Trough, cast in 1920 from a wax sculpture of probably ca. 1866–68, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, number 13/A (29.100.433) |
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Horse Trotting, the Feet Not Touching the Ground, cast in 1920 from a wax sculpture modeled after 1878, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, number 49/A (29.100.428) |
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Horse with Head Lowered, cast in 1920 from a wax sculpture modeled probably ca. 1883–90, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, number 22/A (29.100.430) |
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Incense burner, 1181–1182; Seljuq, Jacfar ibn Muhammad ibn cAli, Khorasan (eastern Iran), Iran; Found in Khorasan (eastern Iran), Tay-abad (Kariz), Iran, Cast bronze with openwork decoration (51.56) |
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Incense burner, 11th century, Spain (Andalusia), Cast bronze, openwork and incised (67.178.3a,b) |
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Incense Burner, ca. 1530–40, Northern Italian (probably Padua), Bronze with dark brown lacquer patina (1982.60.108) |
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Incense burner, mid-1st millennium B.C., Southern Arabia, Bronze (49.71.2) |
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The Indian Hunter, 1860; this cast, before 1910, John Quincy Adams Ward (American), Bronze (1973.257) |
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Iris, Messenger of the Gods, also known as Another Voice, Called Iris, modeled ca. 1895, this bronze cast 1965, Auguste Rodin (French), Bronze, on a black marble base (1984.364.7) |
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Joseph, Chief of the Nez Percé Indians, 1889; this cast, 1906, Olin Levi Warner (American), Bronze (06.313) |
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Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1880; this cast, 1910, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze (12.76.4) |
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Kneeling female, Angkor period, second half of 11th century; Khmer style of the Baphuon, Cambodia, Bronze with silver inlay and traces of gold (1972.147) |
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Kneeling statuette of Thutmose III, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 B.C.,
Egyptian,
Bronze (1995.21) |
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Knife, 12th–11th century B.C., Northwest China, Bronze inlaid with turquoise (49.136.9) |
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Knife, 8th century B.C., Northeast China or southeast Inner Mongolia, Bronze (24.216.1) |
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Krishna on Garuda, Central Javanese period, second half of 9th century, Java, Indonesia, Bronze (1992.135) |
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Kushite Pharaoh, Late Period, Dynasty 25, ca. 713–664 B.C. Egyptian Bronze with gilding (2002.8) |
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Ladle with dragon handle, Three Kingdoms period, 3rd century, China, Gilt bronze (1994.605.90) |
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Lamp, 1904–15,
Louis Comfort Tiffany (American); Tiffany Studios,
Leaded Favrile glass, bronze (1974.214.15a,b) |
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Large cista, mid-4th century B.C., Italic, Bronze (22.84.1) |
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Ligula
Roman,
Bronze (17.230.110) |
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Lion head terminal, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C.,
Northwestern Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu,
Bronze (63.109.1) |
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Lion, cast 1000–1100,
Probably South Italy,
Bronze (originally gilded and inlaid) (L.2000.84) |
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The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer; cast in 1922 from a mixed-media sculpture modeled ca. 1879–80, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, partly tinted, with cotton skirt and satin hair ribbon, on a wooden base (29.100.370) |
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Madeleine, II, 1903, Henri Matisse (French), Bronze (2002.456.115) |
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Maitreya altarpiece, 5th year of the Zhengguang era, dated 524; Northern Wei dynasty, Hebei Province, China, Gilt bronze (38.158.1a-n) |
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Mantel clock, ca. 1750,
ST Germain for Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain (French); Gosselin à Paris, possibly Jean-Philippe (French) or Jean-Baptiste Gosselin (French, active Paris),
Bronze, originally gilded or silvered, enameled dial (37.160.9)
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Mantel clock, ca. 1780–90,
French (Paris),
Gilt bronze, enamel, and marble (17.190.2126)
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Medallion with a griffin fighting an Arimaspian, 4th century B.C., Italic; Praeneste, Bronze (10.230.1) |
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Mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman, ca. 460–450 B.C.; Classical, Greek, Argive, Bronze (1972.118.78) |
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Mirror with a support in the form of a nude girl, second half of 6th century B.C.,
Laconian; Said to be from southern Italy,
Bronze (38.11.3) |
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Mirror with decoration of figures in a landscape, Koryô dynasty (918–1392), Korea, Bronze (25.219.4) |
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Mirror, 12th century, Iran, Cast bronze (42.136) |
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Model of a stupa (Buddhist shrine), ca. 4th century, Pakistan, ancient region of Gandhara, Bronze (1985.387ab) |
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Monstrance Clock or Mirror Clock, ca. 1570, Made in Nuremberg, Germany, Case of gilt bronze; dial of gilt brass; movement of steel (17.190.639) |
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The Mountain Man, 1903; this cast, by March 1907, Frederic Remington (American), Bronze (07.79) |
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Mourning Virgin, from a Crucifixion Group, ca. 1585–90, Manner of Germain Pilon (French), Gilt bronze (1998.437) |
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Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold), 1888; this cast, 1890, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze (17.104) |
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Oil lamp, late 12th–early 13th century,
Iran, Khorasan,
Bronze with silver and copper inlay (2001.470) |
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The Old Courtesan, modeled 1887, this bronze cast 1910,
Auguste Rodin (French), Bronze (11.173.3) |
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On the Border of the White Man's Land, 1899; this cast, 1906–7,
Solon Hannibal Borglum (American),
Bronze (07.104) |
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Orpheus and Eurydice, probably modeled before 1887, executed 1893, Auguste Rodin (French), Marble (10.63.2) |
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Pair of candelabra, modeled in 1840, Antoine-Louis Barye (French), Bronze (10.108.1a,b) |
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Pair of covered ritual wine containers (hu), late Western Zhou dynasty, late 9th–early 8th century B.C., China, Bronze (1988.20.4a,b-5a,b) |
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Pair of eyes, 5th century B.C. or later Probably Greek Bronze, marble, frit, quartz, and obsidian (1991.11.3a,b) |
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Pair of mounted vases, ca. 1740–50,
Chinese porcelain with French mounts,
Hard-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mounts (1984.471.3,.4)
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Panther and Cubs, ca. 1850–55, Henry Kirke Brown (American), Bronze (1992.372) |
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Paris, ca. 1500, Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) (Italian), Bronze, partly gilt and silvered (55.93) |
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Part of a throne with deity on a bull, late 8th–7th century B.C.; Urartian style, Probably Toprakkale, eastern Anatolia, Bronze (50.163) |
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Patera handle in the form of a youth, ca. late 6th century B.C.,
Greek,
Bronze (2005.457) |
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Pin with recumbent lion, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C.,
Northwestern Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu,
Bronze (61.100.10) |
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Plaque fragment inscribed with the Urartian royal name Argishti (probably Argishti II), 8th–7th century B.C., Eastern Anatolia or Northwestern Iran, Urartian, Bronze (1976.5) |
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Plaque of Mithras slaying the bull, mid-Imperial, 2nd or early 3rd century A.D.,
Roman,
Bronze (1997.145.3) |
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Polycandelon with Crosses, 500–600, Byzantine, Copper alloy (2002.483.7) |
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Pope Alexander VII, Fabio Chigi (1599–1667, r. 1655–1667), 1667, Melchiore Caffa (Maltese), Bronze (57.20) |
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Pope Innocent X, Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (1574–1655, r. 1644–1655), second half of 17th century, After Alessandro Algardi (Italian), Bronze (08.49) |
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Portrait bust of a Roman matron, mid-1st century A.D.; Late Julio-Claudian, Roman, Bronze (52.11.6) |
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Portrait statue of a boy, Late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Bronze (14.130.1) |
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Psykter with lid and two swinging handles, late 6th century B.C., Greek, Bronze (60.11.3a,b) |
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Pull toy of a cart and driver, Eastern Javanese period, ca. 15th century, Indonesia (Java), Majapahit kingdom, Bronze (1987.142.261a-c) |
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The Puritan, 1883–86; this cast, 1899 or after, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze (39.65.53) |
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Rafter finial in the shape of a dragon head and wind chime, Late Unified Silla–early Koryô dynasty, 10th century, Korea, Gilt bronze (1999.263ab) |
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Rattle Staff (Ukhurhe) of Oba Akenzua I, 1725–50, Nigeria; Edo peoples, court of Benin, Bronze, copper, iron (1974.5) |
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Razor and mirror, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, early co-reign of Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, ca. 1479–1473 B.C., Egyptian; From the tomb of Hatnofer and Ramose, western Thebes, Bronze and wood (36.3.69,.13) |
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Reclining Figure, No. 4, 1954–55, Henry Moore (British), Bronze (1995.600) |
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Reclining Nude, II, 1927, Henri Matisse (French), Bronze (1996.403.16) |
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Ritual basin, 7th–9th century, Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara) or Central Asia, Bronze (1987.218.6) |
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Ritual food container (dui), Eastern Zhou dynasty, ca. 4th century B.C.,
China,
Bronze inlaid with composition of bone black and lacquer (2006.117a,b) |
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Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887–88; this cast, 1910, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze (12.76.1) |
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Rodman de Kay Gilder, 1879; this cast, probably 1880, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze (1994.50) |
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Royal or divine figure with high conical headdress, 18th century B.C.; Middle Bronze Age, Syria or Levant, Bronze (1985.262.2) |
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Samuel Gray Ward, 1881; this cast, ca. 1908–9, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze (12.29) |
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Satyr, Statuette, 16th century (ca. 1506–8), Il Riccio (Andrea Briosco) (Italian, Paduan), Made in Padua, Italy, Bronze (1982.45) |
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Seated Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, Anuradhapura period, ca. late 7th–first half of 8th century, Sri Lanka, Bronze (1987.142.65) |
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Seated Buddha Amoghasiddhi, the Transcendent Buddha of the North, late 10th–early 11th century, India (Himachal Pradesh, ancient kingdoms of Tibet), Silver and bronze with copper inlay and traces of gold foil (1984.211) |
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Seated Buddha, 15th century; Sukhothai style, Thailand, Bronze (2002.131) |
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Seated Buddha, 8th–early 9th century,
Burma; Pyu kingdom,
Bronze (2006.53) |
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Seated Crowned and jeweled Buddha, Pala period, late 10th century; Kurkihar style, Bihar, India, Bronze with silver, lapis lazuli, and rock-crystal inlays (1993.311 ab) |
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Seated female ascetic, Eastern Javanese period, 15th–16th century, Indonesia (Java), Majapahit kingdom, Bronze (1997.435) |
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Seated Ganesha, ca. 15th century; Sukhothai or Lan Na style, Thailand, Bronze (1983.512) |
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Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana, Central Javanese period, ca. late 9th century, Indonesia, Java, Bronze (1987.142.23) |
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Serpentine Brooch, 6th century B.C.; Iron Age, Halstatt period, Copper alloy (1992.280.3) |
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Set of four wall brackets, 18th century (ca. 1788),
Made under the direction of Jean Hauré (French), cast either by Étienne-Jean Forestier (French) or his brother Pierre-Auguste (French), chased by Pierre-Philippe Thomire (French),
Gilt bronze (1979.172.3-6)
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Shaiva saint, Karaikkal Ammaiyar, Chola period, ca. late 13th century, Tamil Nadu, India, Copper alloy (1982.220.11) |
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Shears, 18th–19th century, Turkey, Steel, bronze, gold (67.55.127) |
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Sickle sword, 1307–1275 B.C.; Middle Assyrian period, reign of Adad-nirari I, Mesopotamia, Bronze (11.166.1) |
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Situla with design of ships, Dongson culture, 100 B.C.–100 A.D., Vietnam, Bronze (2000.284.60) |
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Smiting god wearing an Egyptian atef crown, 15th–14th century B.C., Levant, Bronze (1986.42) |
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Spanish Dance, cast in 1920 from a wax sculpture modeled probably ca. 1884, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, number 45/A, (29.100.395) |
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Spatula, Roman,
Cypriot, Bronze (74.51.5509) |
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Spouted ritual wine vessel (guang), Shang dynasty, early Anyang period, 13th century B.C., Possibly Anyang, Henan Province, China, Bronze (43.25.4) |
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Square-Headed Brooch, 6th century, Anglo-Saxon, Copper alloy with gilding and niello inlay (1985.209) |
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Stalking Panther, 1891–92; revised mid-1890s; this cast, ca. 1914–17, Alexander Phimister Proctor (American), Bronze (1996.561) |
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Standard top, 8th–7th century B.C., Luristan, western Iran, Bronze (1996.82.1) |
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Standard top, late 2nd millennium B.C.; Middle Elamite period, Southwestern Iran, Bronze (57.13.1) |
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Standing boar, Eastern Javanese period, ca. 14th century, Indonesia (Java), Bronze (1987.142.259) |
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Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future, 9th–10th century, Nepal, Copper alloy with gilding and color (1982.220.12) |
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Standing bodhisattva, 8th–9th century, Nepal, Gilt copper alloy (1981.59) |
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Standing Buddha, 8th–9th century; Mon style, Thailand, Bronze with high tin content, or silver alloy (1993.387.6) |
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Standing Buddha, ca. 6th century, Pakistan, ancient region of Gandhara, Bronze (1981.188ab) |
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Standing Buddha, Northern Wei dynasty, mid-5th century, China, Gilt bronze (26.123) |
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Standing Buddha, Pagan period, 12th–13th century, Burma, Bronze with silver inlay (1993.235.1) |
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Standing Buddha, Polonnaruva period, 11th–12th century, Sri Lanka, Gilt bronze (1993.387.8) |
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Standing Buddha, probably Shakyamuni, 5th–6th century, Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu, India, Bronze (1998.414) |
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Standing Buddha, Unified Silla dynasty, 8th century, Korea, Gilt bronze (12.37.136) |
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Standing four-armed Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, ca. 9th century; Peninsular or Shrivijaya style, Thailand, Bronze (1982.64) |
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Standing Hanuman, Chola period, 11th century, Tamil Nadu, India, Copper Alloy (1982.220.9) |
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Standing Jain tirthankara, Chalukya period, 9th century, Karnataka or Tamil Nadu, India, Copper alloy (1995.423) |
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Standing Parvati, Chola period, ca. first quarter of 10th century, Tamil Nadu, India, Copper alloy (57.51.3) |
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Statue of an athlete finishing a jump, ca. 450 B.C., Greek, Bronze (08.258.11) |
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Statue of Eros sleeping, Hellenistic or Augustan, 3rd century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.,
Greek or Roman,
Bronze (43.11.4) |
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Statuette of a diskos thrower, ca. 480–460 B.C.; Classical, Greek, Bronze (07.286.87) |
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Statuette of a draped man, 1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.; Hellenistic or Early Imperial, Greek or Roman, Bronze, (07.286.96) |
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Statuette of a horse or elephant rider, 3rd century B.C.; Hellenistic,
Greek; Said to be from ancient Athribis, Egypt, Bronze (55.11.11) |
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Statuette of a horse, 8th century B.C.; Geometric, Greek, Bronze (21.88.24) |
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Statuette of a man and centaur, ca. 750 B.C.; Geometric, Greek, Bronze (17.190.2072) |
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Statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand, Early Imperial, Augustan, late 1st century B.C.,
Roman,
Marble (10.231.1) |
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Statuette of a standing maiden, late 6th century B.C., Etruscan; Italy, Etruria, Bronze (17.190.2066) |
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Statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, Hellenistic, 3rd–2nd century B.C.,
Greek,
Bronze (1972.118.95)
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Statuette of an African (known as Ethiopian), 3rd–2nd century B.C.,
Greek,
Bronze (18.145.10) |
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Statuette of Aphrodite, ca. 150–100 B.C.,
Greek, late Hellenistic; variant of the 4th century B.C. Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles,
Bronze (12.173) |
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Statuette of Cybele on a cart drawn by lions, Imperial, second half of 2nd century A.D.,
Roman,
Bronze (97.22.24), |
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Statuette of Herakles, last quarter of 6th century B.C.; Archaic, Greek, Bronze (28.77) |
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Statuette of Saint Agnes after Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), third quarter of 17th century, Cast after a terracotta sketch-model for one of the statues over the colonnades of Saint Peter's Square, Rome, Bronze, brown natural patina, traces of red-gold lacquer (1978.202) |
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The Sun Vow, 1899; this cast, 1919, Hermon Atkins MacNeil (American), Bronze (19.126) |
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Swords, with scabbard mounts, Sui dynasty, ca. 600, Chinese, Iron, gilt bronze, silver, wood (30.65.2) |
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Tabernacle of Cherves, ca. 1220–1230, French; Made in Limoges, Gilded copper and champlevé enamel (17.190.735) |
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Three Men Walking II, 1949, Alberto Giacometti (Swiss), Bronze (1999.363.22) |
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Top of a bell in the form of a demon king or guardian, Eastern Javanese period, ca. second half of 12th–early 13th century, Indonesia (Java), Bronze (1987.142.17) |
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Torque (Neck Ring), 4th–3rd century B.C.; European Iron Age, Celtic, Copper alloy (17.194.1919) |
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Torso of a youth, Roman overcast of a Greek bronze statue of the early 5th century B.C., Bronze (20.194) |
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Tripod, ca. 1450—1050; Late Cypriot II or III, Cypriot, Bronze (74.51.5587) |
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Triton, 16th century (1560–70), Giovanni Bologna, called Giambologna, Made in Florence, Italy, Bronze (14.40.689) |
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The Tub, cast in 1920 from the original mixed-media sculpture of 1888–89, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, number 26/A (29.100.419) |
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Two chariot yoke ornaments in the shape of does, 5th–4th century B.C., North China, Bronze (1985.214.88-89) |
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Two Plaquettes with Charity and Temperance, ca. 1540, Peter Flötner (German, Nuremberg), Bronze (26.14.13, 1986.319.43) |
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Two portraits of Trebonianus Gallus, 251–53 A.D., Roman, Bronze (05.30, 05.47) |
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913, Umberto Boccioni (Italian), Bronze (1990.38.3) |
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Vase or clock ornament, ca. 1770,
French,
Gilt bronze (07.225.510.316)
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Vessel, ca. 700, Syria, Bronze, pierced and chased, openwork design (1993.319) |
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The Victory of the Maréchal de Villars at Denain, 1806, modified 1818,
Louis-Simon Boizot (French); cast by Pierre-Phillipe Thomire (French)
Bronze (1978.55) |
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Votive plaque inscribed with Sabaean dedication, late 1st millennium B.C., Southwestern Arabia, Bronze (1993.169) |
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Weight: Elephant, 19th–20th century, Ghana; Akan, Asante, Brass (1978.412.407); Weight: Bird with Body in Knot, 18th–19th century, Ghana; Akan, Brass (1994.312.17); Weight: Bird Claw, 19th—20th century, Ghana; Akan, Asante, Brass (1979.206.182) |
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Wine container (hu), Eastern Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period, early 5th century B.C., China, Bronze inlaid with copper (1999.46ab) |
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Woman Getting Out of the Bath, cast in 1920 from a wax fragment, now destroyed, but modeled probably ca. 1883–90, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, number 71/A (29.100.383) |
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Woman Seated in an Armchair Wiping Her Left Armpit, cast in 1920 from a sculpture made of wax, cork, and wood probably ca. 1895, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French),Bronze, number 43/A (29.100.415) |
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Woman Stretching, cast in 1920 from a wax sculpture modeled probably ca. 1885 or earlier, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, number 53/A (29.100.393) |
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Woman's Head, 1909, Pablo Picasso (Spanish), Bronze (1996.403.6) |
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Yashoda and Krishna, Vijayanagar period, ca. early 14th century, India (perhaps Karnataka), Copper alloy (1982.220.8) |
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A Young Mother, 1896; this cast, ca. 1906, Bessie Potter Vonnoh (American), Bronze (06.306) |
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Zao Gongen, Heian period, 11th–?12th century, Japan, Gilt bronze (1975.268.155) |
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