Works of Art (264)
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Administrative tablet with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars, 3100–2900 B.C.; Jemdet Nasr period (Uruk III script), Mesopotamia, Clay (1988.433.1) |
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American Modern dinnerware, 1937, Russel Wright (American), Glazed earthenware (2002.585.17a–j) |
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Amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a bird-man, late 5th century B.C.; Classical,
Greek, Attic,
Terracotta (1999.68) |
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Ampulla (Flask) of Saint Menas, late 500s–mid-700s, Byzantine; Probably made at Abu Menas, near Alexandria, Egypt, Terracotta (27.94.19) |
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Ancestor Pair, 1st–3rd century A.D., Mexico; Nayarit (Chinesco), Ceramic (1999.272.1,2) |
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Antefix in the shape of a female head, ca. 625–600 B.C.,
South Italian; From Matauros,
Terracotta (22.139.56) |
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Antefix with the head of Medusa, 6th century B.C.,
Tarantine; Said to be from Taranto,
Terracotta (26.60.73) |
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Apothecary Jar (Orciuolo), 1431 (?), Florence, perhaps workshop of Giunta di Tugio (Italian), Maiolica (1975.1.1061) |
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Armorial Plate (Tondino), ca. 1520–25 (or 1519?), Nicolò da Urbino (probably Nicola di Bagriele Sbarage) (Italian), Majolica (1975.1.1019) |
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Barrel oinochoe, 8th–early 7th century B.C.; Italo-Geometric, Italian peninsula, possibly Campania or Etruria, Terracotta (1975.363) |
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Basin (Lebrillo) with Figure of a Woman, 1660–80, Attributed to Damian Hernández, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware, decorated in the aborronado style (11.87.3) |
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Basin (Lebrillo) with Lacework Pattern, ca. 1650, Mexican (Puebla), Tin-glazed earthenware decorated in cobalt strapwork with lace patterning in manganese (12.3.1) |
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Basin (pen), Majiayao culture, Majiayao phase, ca. 3200–2700 B.C., Gansu Province, China, Earthenware with painted decoration (L.1996.55.6) |
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Basin with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent, 1390–1400, Spanish (Valencia?), Lustered earthenware (41.100.173) |
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Beaker-shaped vessel, Ban Chiang type, late 3rd–1st millennium B.C., Thailand, Earthenware with incised and impressed decoration (1984.494.6) |
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Bench figure, 1st century B.C.–4th century A.D.,
Ecuador; Tolita/Tumaco,
Ceramic (1991.436.7) |
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Bird-shaped vessel, Three Kingdoms period, ca. late 2nd–3rd century, Korea, Earthenware (1997.34.1) |
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Bottle (Florero), 1st–5th century, Mexico; Teotihuacan, Ceramic (1979.205.6) |
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Bottle (Refredador), first half of 16th century, Spanish (Valencia), Tin-glazed earthenware with luster decoration (94.4.358) |
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Bottle with flattened side, Unified Silla dynasty, 8th–10th century, Korea, Stoneware (1994.226) |
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Bottle, Koryô dynasty, 13th century, Korea, Stoneware with inlaid design of chrysanthemums under celadon glaze (27.119.6) |
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Bottle, Late Jomon period (ca. 1500–1000 B.C.), Japan, Earthenware with incised designs (1975.268.184) |
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Bowl with Fish, 1000s–1200s, Byzantine, Terracotta, white slip, and transparent glaze (2000.322) |
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Bowl with Human Feet, Predynastic Period, probably late Naqada I–early Naqada II, ca. 3750–3550 B.C., Egyptian, Ceramic (10.176.113) |
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Bowl with painted decoration, ca. 2600–1900 B.C., Excavated at Damb Sadaat (level III), Pakistan, Ceramic, paint (57.99.2) |
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Bowl with three fish, first half of 14th century, Iran, Fritware, monochrome glazed (59.60) |
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Bowl, 10th century, Samarqand (Uzbekistan) or Nishapur (Iran), Earthenware, red body, white engobe, underglaze-painted (65.106.2) |
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Bowl, 10th century, Iran (Nishapur), Earthenware, slip-painted and glazed (65.270.1) |
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Bowl, 10th century, Samarqand, Central Asia, Earthenware, glazed, with slip-painted white engobe (61.144) |
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Bowl, 15th century; Timurid
Iran or Central Asia, Earthenware, underglaze-painted (32.33) |
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Bowl, 7th–6th millennium B.C., Halaf period, Syria, Tell Halaf, Ceramic (1983.407) |
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Bowl, 9th century; cAbbasid, Iraq, Earthenware, tin-glazed and stained (63.159.4) |
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Bowl, 9th–4th century B.C.,
Ecuador; Chorrera,
Ceramic (1991.436.2) |
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Bowl, ca. 1000; Fatimid, Egypt, Earthenware, glazed and luster-painted (63.178.1) |
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Bowl, ca. 10th century, Probably Iran (Nishapur); Excavated in Nishapur, Iran, 1939, Earthenware, underglaze-painted in black and red over cream-colored slip (40.170.15) |
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Bowl, Chosôn dynasty, first half of 16th century, Korean, Stoneware with white slip under punch’ông glaze (1983.557.2) |
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Bowl, Chosôn dynasty, second half of 15th century, Korea, Stoneware with inlaid and stamped decoration of peony leaves and chrysanthemum flowers under punch'ông glaze (2002.132) |
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Bowl, late 12th–early 13th century; Seljuq, Central or northern Iran, Mina'i ware, composite body, opaque white glaze with gilding, overglaze painting (57.36.4) |
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Bowl, late 12th–early 13th century; Seljuq, Iran, Composite body, overglaze-painted and gilded (51.53) |
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Bowl, late 13th–early 14th century, Iran, Fritware, overglaze painted and gilded (lajvardina) (34.151) |
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Bowl, Qing dynasty, Daoguang mark and period (1821–50), China, Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (79.2.536) |
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Bowl, second half of 15th century; Timurid, Northwestern Iran (17.120.70) |
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Broth Bowl and Cover (scodella and tagliere), ca. 1530–40, Baldassare Manara (Italian), Maiolica (1975.1.1043a) |
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Bust of a female figurine, Final Jomon period (ca. 1000–300 B.C.), Japan, Earthenware with incised and cord-marked designs (1975.268.191) |
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Bust of a warrior, Kofun period, 5th–6th century, Kanto region, Japan, Earthenware with painted, incised, and applied decoration (1975.268.414) |
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Bust of Francis I, 1529, Girolamo della Robbia (Italian), Glazed terracotta (41.100.245) |
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Bust of the Virgin, ca. 1390–95,
Bohemian,
Terracotta with several layers of paint (2005.393)
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Calyx-krater depicting a phlyax masquerading as a reveler, ca. 400–390 B.C.; Red-figure,
Attributed to the Konnakis Group,
Greek, South Italian, Apulian,
Terracotta (51.11.2) |
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Camel with packboards and baggage, 6th–7th century, Western China or Central Asia, Earthenware with pigment (2000.8) |
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Censer with Seated Figure, 5th–6th century, Guatemala; Maya, Ceramic (1982.394) |
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Central watchtower, architectural model, Eastern Han dynasty, 1st–early 3rd century
China, Earthenware with green lead glaze (1984.397ab) |
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Centuripe vase, ca. 400–375 B.C.; Hellenistic, Italic-Native, Sicilian (Centuripe) Terracotta (53.11.5) |
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Ceramic bowl, 10th century, Iran or Transoxiana, Nishapur or Samarqand, Reddish body, white engobe, underglaze painted and incised, clear colorless glaze (40.170.25) |
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Chariot cup, Three Kingdoms period, Kaya Federation, 5th century, Korea, Stoneware with traces of incidental ash glaze (1997.34.2) |
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Chariot krater, ca. 1400—1370 B.C.; Late Helladic IIIA, Helladic (Mycenaean), Terracotta (74.51.964) |
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Choes (jug), ca. 450–400 B.C.; red-figure,
Greek, Attic,
Terracotta (37.11.19) |
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Classic Kerma Beaker, Egyptian Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 13, ca. 1802–1640 B.C., Classical Kerma; From Abydos, Egypt, Garstang excavations, Black-topped red polished ceramic (20.2.45) |
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Coffeepot, ca. 1912, Pavel Janák (Czech), Earthenware (2000.173a,b) |
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Cone mosaic, 3300–3100 B.C.; Late Uruk period, Excavated at the "Columned Hall," Uruk, Mesopotamia, Clay, mud plaster (L.1995.48.2) |
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Container in the shape of a horse and rider, 12th–13th century, Iran, Composite body, underglaze-painted (66.23) |
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Covered jar (hu), Western Han dynasty, 2nd–1st century B.C., Probably from Luoyang area, China, Earthenware with painted decoration (1992.165.20ab) |
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Cult vessel in the form of a tower, 19th century B.C.; Old Babylonian period, Syria, Ceramic (68.155) |
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Cuneiform tablet case, 1920–1840 B.C.; Old Assyrian Trading Colony period, Central Anatolia, Kültepe (Karum Kanesh), Clay (66.245.5b) |
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Cylindrical Vessel, 1st–2nd century, Guatemala; Maya, Ceramic (1982.207.7) |
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Deep bowl with sculptural rim, late Middle Jomon period, ca. 1500 B.C., Japan, Earthenware (1992.252.1) |
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Dish with a handle (tebachi) in the shape of a double fan, Momoyama period, late 16th–early 17th century, Japanese, Stoneware with overglaze enamels (Mino ware, Oribe type) (1975.268.443) |
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Dish with design of peonies, 15th century, Vietnam, Stoneware with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration (1989.157) |
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Dish with recumbent elephant surrounded by clouds, 15th–16th century, Vietnam, Stoneware with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration (1998.213) |
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Dish, 14th–mid-16th century, Thailand, Earthenware with underglaze iron-brown decoration (Kalong ware) (1992.72.39) |
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Dish, 15th century (1486–87), Possibly made in Pesaro, Italy, Majolica (tin-enameled earthenware) (46.85.30) |
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Dish, 18th–19th century, Transoxiana (Uzbekistan), Bukhara, Clay, painted and glazed (1997.312) |
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Dish, 19th century, Joseph-Théodore Deck (French, Earthenware with underglaze and enamel polychrome decoration ("Persian" faience) (1985.225) |
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Dish, 6th–5th millennium B.C.; Ubaid period, Excavated at Ubaid Cemetery, Grave 136, Eridu, Mesopotamia, Ceramic (49.133.2) |
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Dish, ca. 1520, Italian (Deruta), Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) with on-glaze blue painting and luster (29.100.93) |
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Dish, ca. 1525–30; Ottoman; Iznik, Attributed to Iznik, Turkey, Underglaze-painted composite body (14.40.727) |
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Dish, last quarter of 16th century; Ottoman, Iznik, Turkey, Composite body, painted and glazed (1979.412) |
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Dish, late 12th–early 13th century, Iran, Kashan, Composite body, glazed and luster-painted (1983.247) |
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Dish, second half of 12th century, Syria, Composite body, carved in relief, incised, and painted under a clear glaze (1979.210) |
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Dish, Southern Song dynasty, 12th–13th century; Guan ware, From the Hangzhou kilns, Zhejiang Province, China, Porcelaneous stoneware with crackled blue glaze (24.172.1) |
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Double Gourd-Shaped Bottle (Botellón), late 17th century, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware (11.87.30) |
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Double-handled vessel, Three Kingdoms period, probably Paekche kingdom, 5th–6th century, Korea, Stoneware (1997.34.25) |
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Double-Headed Figure, end of 3rd millennium B.C., Ecuador; Valdivia, Ceramic (1980.34.1) |
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Double-spout bottle, 2nd–4th century,
Peru; Nazca,
Ceramic (1996.174) |
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Drinking Cup, ca. 1900–1550 B.C., C-Group; From Faras, Lower Nubia, grave 110, Griffith excavations, Polished black ware with decoration filled with white pigment (13.125.28A) |
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Ewer and Basin, French, in the manner of Bernard Palissy, after an original pewter set of ca. 1585–90 by François Briot, White earthenware, molded in relief, with colored lead glazes (53.225.29,04.9.20) |
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Ewer in the form of a phoenix, ca. 15th–16th century, Vietnam, Stoneware with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration (1992.72.1) |
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Ewer, Eastern Jin dynasty, second half of 4th century, China, Stoneware with celadon glaze (Yue ware) (1979.353) |
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Ewer, Northern Song dynasty, 11th–12th century; Yaozhou ware, China, Stoneware with incised, carved, and relief decoration under glaze (26.292.73) |
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Feline figure, 1st century B.C.–4th century A.D.,
Ecuador; Tolita/Tumaco,
Ceramic (1991.436.8) |
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Female dancer, early Western Han dynasty, 2nd century B.C., China, Earthenware with slip and pigments (1992.165.19) |
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Female Figure, 1st century B.C.–2nd century A.D., Mexico; Jalisco, Ceramic (1979.355) |
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Figure bottle, 1st–2nd century,
Peru; Nazca,
Ceramic (1978.412.53) |
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Figure of a woman, mid-5th century B.C., Greek, Terracotta (06.1151) |
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Figure of Bodhidharma, Ming dynasty, 17th century, China, Porcelain (Dehua ware) (63.176) |
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Flask-Shaped Bottle, Chosôn dynasty, late 15th century, Korean, Stoneware with sgraffito design of flowers under punch’ông glaze (1986.305) |
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Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider, early 1200s, Byzantine; Made possibly in Antioch, Terracotta with green glaze over slip, decorated in sgraffito (1984.181) |
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Frieze tile with two hunters, ca. 1270–75, Iran (probably Takht-i Sulayman), Fritware, overglaze luster-painted (10.9.1) |
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Funerary urn (hunping), Western Jin dynasty, ca. 250–300, China, Earthenware with green glaze (1992.165.21) |
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Funerary Vessel, 19th–20th century, Ghana; Akan, Asante, Terracotta (1980.68) |
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Haniwa boar, Kofun period, 5th century, Japan, Earthenware (1975.268.418) |
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Head of a male, 2000–1600 B.C.; Old Babylonian period, Probably Isin, southern Mesopotamia, Ceramic (1972.96) |
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Head of a ram, 3300–3100 B.C.; Late Uruk period
Mesopotamia, Ceramic, paint (1981.53) |
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Head, 16th–17th century, Nigeria; Edo peoples, court of Benin, Terracotta, sacrificial materials (1991.17.7) |
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Horse with Female Rider, Tang dynasty, 7th century, Astana, Turfan, Xinjiang Uighur Autonmous Region, China, Clay, Unfired clay with pigment (51.93ab) |
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Hunchback, 12th–9th century B.C., Mexico; Olmec, Ceramic, pigment (1989.392) |
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Inkwell, ca. 1900,
Maker: Adrien-Pierre Dalpayrat (French)
Glazed earthenware, gilt bronze (1999.398.3) |
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Jar (Tibor) with Decoration of Pendant Garlands, 18th century, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware (11.87.8) |
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Jar (Tibor), probably 18th century, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware (11.87.36) |
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Jar from the tomb of Sennedjem, New Kingdom, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279–1213 B.C., Egyptian; From the tomb of Sennedjem, Deir el-Medina, western Thebes, Painted red pottery (86.1.10) |
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Jar with cover, first half of 18th century, Iran, Ceramic, glazed (30.95.160ab) |
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Jar with Cut Maguey Leaves, 2nd century B.C.–2nd century A.D., Mexico; Colima, Ceramic (1979.206.958) |
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Jar with Four Faces, mid-13th–mid-15th century, Casas Grandes peoples; Chihuahua, Ceramic (1979.206.1171) |
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Jar with Iron Collar (Chocolatero), ca. 1700, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware (11.87.7) |
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Jar with molded decoration, A.H. 681/1282–83 A.D., Iran, Fritware, monochrome glazed (56.185.3) |
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Jar with Ritual Scene, 15th century, Mexico; Mixtec/Nayarit, Ceramic (1992.3) |
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Jar, 14th century; Mamluk, Syria, Composite body, underglaze-painted in cobalt blue and black on white slip, transparent glaze (91.1.130) |
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Jar, Ban Chiang type, ca. 300 B.C.–200 A.D., Thailand, Earthenware with painted decoration (1987.424.9) |
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Jar, Chosôn dynasty, 18th century, Korea, Porcelain with underglaze copper-red decoration of grapevine (1979.413.2) |
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Jar, Late Bronze Age, ca. 4th century B.C., Korea, Burnished red earthenware (1998.212) |
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Jar, Majiayao culture, Machang phase, ca. 2300–2050 B.C., Gansu or Qinghai Province, China, Earthenware with painted decoration (1992.165.8) |
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Jar, mid-6th millennium B.C.; Hacilar I type, South central Anatolia, Ceramic with paint (64.286.5) |
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Jar, Six Dynasties (late Northern dynasties period)–Sui dynasty, ca. late 6th century, China, Earthenware with relief decoration under olive-green glaze (1996.15) |
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Jardinière, ca. 1893,
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (French); Clément Massier (French),
Golfe-Juan, France,
Earthenware with metallic glaze (2005.220) |
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Jug with an oversized spout, mid-6th century B.C.,
Lydian; Excavated at Sardis,
Terracotta (14.30.9) |
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Jug, ca. 1600—1450 B.C.; Late Cypriot I, Cypriot, Base Ring I Ware, Terracotta (74.51.1084) |
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Jug, ca. 220–250, Roman, Terracotta (74.51.383) |
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Krater with a lid surmounted by a small hydria, mid-8th century B.C.; Geometric,
Greek, Euboean or Cycladic; Found at Kourion, Cyprus,
Terracotta (74.51.965) |
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Krater, ca. 750–700 B.C.; Geometric, Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (14.130.14) |
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Kylix (drinking cup), ca. 470 B.C.; Classical, white-ground, Attributed to the Villa Giulia Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (1979.11.15) |
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Kylix, ca. 460 B.C.; red-figure, Attributed to the Painter of Munich 2660, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (17.230.10) |
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Kylix, ca. 500 B.C.; red-figure, Attributed to Douris, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (1986.322.1) |
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Kylix–Type B, ca. 500 B.C.; red-figure, Attributed to the Ashby Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (1993.11.5) |
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La Négresse, 1872,
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French), Cast terracotta (1997.491) |
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Lamentation Group, dated 1487, Italian (Faenza), probably made for a Franciscan church or convent near Faenza, Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) (04.26a-h) |
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Lamp, late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.; Early Imperial, Roman, Terracotta, mold-made, (74.51.2027) |
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Lantern, late 12th–first half of 13th century, yria (Raqqa), Underglaze-painted composite ceramic body and overglaze luster-painted (91.1.138) |
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Large Bowl with Equestrian Figure, ca. 1820, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware (11.87.68) |
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Large Jar, Chosôn dynasty, second half of 15th century Korean Stoneware with sgrafitto design of peonies under punch’ông glaze (16.122.1) |
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Large jar, late Kofun or Asuka period, 6th–7th century, Japan, Stoneware with natural ash glaze and comb and cord markings (Sue ware) (1975.268.420) |
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Lekythos (oil flask), ca. 460–450 B.C.; red-figure Attributed to the Nikon Painter Greek, Attic Terracotta (53.224) |
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Lekythos (oil flask), ca. 470–460 B.C.; Classical; White ground with red-figure,
Attributed to the Painter of the Yale Lekythos,
Greek, Attic,
Terracotta (07.286.44) |
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Lekythos (oil flask), ca. 480–470 B.C.; red-figure Attributed to the Tithonos Painter Greek, Attic Terracotta (25.78.2) |
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Lekythos, ca. 550 B.C.; black-figure, Attributed to the Amasis Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (56.11.1) |
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Lentoid flask, 11th century B.C., Levantine, Bichrome Ware, Terracotta (74.51.431) |
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"Listening to Waves" vase, Heisei period, 2004,
Sakiyama Takayuki (Japanese),
Sand-glazed stoneware (2004.201) |
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Long-necked bottle, Nara period, 8th century, Japan, Stoneware with natural ash glaze and incised decoration (Sue ware) (1975.268.425) |
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Luster bottle, second half of 17th century, Iran, Earthenware, glazed (30.95.158) |
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Lydion (perfume jar), 6th century B.C., Greek, Lydian, Terracotta (26.164.27) |
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Maebyông, Koryô dynasty, late 13th–early 14th century, Korea, Stoneware with inlaid design of cranes and clouds under celadon glaze (27.119.11) |
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Melon-shaped wine ewer, Koryô dynasty, 12th century, Korea, Stoneware with carved and incised design of bamboo under celadon glaze (1996.471) |
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Memorial Head, 19th–20th century, Côte d'Ivoire; Akan, Anyi subgroup, Terracotta (1978.412.394) |
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Molded plaque with a king or god carrying a mace, 2000–1700 B.C.; Isin-Larsa-Old Babylonian period, Southern Mesopotamia, Ceramic (32.39.2) |
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Mosque lamp, first quarter of 16th century; Ottoman, Anatolia (Iznik), Composite body, opaque white glaze, underglaze painted (59.69.3) |
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Mosque lamp, late 16th century, Turkey; Iznik, Composite body, painted and glazed (14.40.731) |
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Neck amphora (storage jar), ca. 620/615–595/590 B.C.,
Greek, Corinthian; Said to be from Capua,
Terracotta (06.1021.18) |
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Neck amphora, fourth quarter of 8th century B.C.; Late Geometric, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (10.210.7) |
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Necklace with Pendant, 16th–18th century, Angola; Chokwe, Wood, ceramic, raffia (1996.456) |
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Nolan neck-amphora with triple handles, ca. 470–460 B.C.; red-figure,
Attributed to the Achilles Painter,
Greek, Attic,
Terracotta (25.189.2) |
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Nude female with birdlike face holding an infant, ca. 1450–1200 B.C.; Late Cypriot II; Base-Ring Ware, Cypriot; Said to be from Nicosia–Ayia Paraskevi, Terracotta (74.51.1542) |
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Nude goddess figurine, [late 8th–7th century B.C.?], Excavated at Tell el-Duweir (ancient Lachish), southern Levant, Ceramic (34.126.53) |
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Oil bottle, Koryô dynasty, late 12th century, Korea, Stoneware with reverse inlaid design of peonies under celadon glaze (17.175.9) |
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Open bowl, 1st century A.D., Nabataean; Jordan, Ceramic (1977.234.12) |
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Pair of Bottles with "Mosque" Motifs, late 18th century, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware (11.87.44); Covered Soup Bowl (Sopera con tapa), ca. 1808–21, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware (17.108.11,.12) |
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Pair of vases, Hongxian mark and period, 1915–16, China, Porcelain painted in overglaze sepia and black (68.4.1,.2) |
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Panel of four calligraphic tiles, 14th–early 15th century; Marinid, Morocco, Glazed composite body (1999.146) |
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Panel: striding lion, 604–562 B.C.; Neo-Babylonian period, reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, Excavated at Wall of Processional Way, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Glazed brick (31.13.2) |
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Pedestal Bowl, 13th–16th century, Colombia/Ecuador; Tuza/Cuasmal, Ceramic (1994.35.63) |
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Pedestal dish with cover, Three Kingdoms period, Silla Kingdom, 5th–6th century, Korea, Stoneware with traces of incidental ash glaze (1997.34.7a,b) |
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Pharmacy Jar, dated 1515, Italian (Siena), Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) (23.166) |
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Pharmacy Jar, late 15th century, Italian (Naples), Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) (46.85.15) |
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Phoenix-headed ewer, Tang dynasty, late 7th–first half of 8th century, China, Earthenware with three-color (sancai) glaze (1991.253.4) |
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Pietà, ca. 1864,
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French), Terracotta (2001.199) |
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Pitcher, 1879–82,
Christopher Dresser (British),
Earthenware (1988.423.1) |
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Plate (Piatto), 1532, Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo (Italian), Maiolica (1975.1.1131) |
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Plate with Standard-Bearer, ca. 1670, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware (11.87.4) |
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Plate, 10th–11th century, Iran or Afghanistan, Earthenware, incised and glazed (1993.24) |
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Plate, 6th–5th millennium B.C.; Ubaid period, Excavated at Ubaid Cemetery, Grave 142, Eridu, Mesopotamia, Ceramic (49.133.4) |
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Plate, ca. 1820, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware (18.36) |
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Plate, ca. 1877,
English, Earthenware (1991.110.3) |
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Psykter, ca. 520–510 B.C.; Archaic; red-figure, Attributed to Oltos, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (1989.281.69) |
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Pyxis (box with lid), mid-8th century B.C.; Geometric, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (48.11.5a,b) |
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Pyxis, ca. 1400–1100 B.C.; Late Minoan IIIB, Minoan; Greece, Crete, Terracotta (1999.423) |
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Pyxis, second half of 11th century, Syria, Composite body; luster-painted (1998.298ab) |
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Rectangular bottle, Showa period, ca. 1960,
Hamada Shoji (Japanese),
Produced in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture,
Stoneware with underglaze iron decoration (1994.289) |
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Rhyton in the form of a bull's head, ca. 1450–1400 B.C.; Late Minoan II, Minoan; Greece, Crete, Terracotta (1973.35) |
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Ritual Vessel (Paccha), 15th–early 16th century, Peru; Inka, Ceramic (1979.206.1149) |
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Seated Figure Censer (Incensario), 4th century, Mexico or Guatemala; Maya, Ceramic (1999.484.1a,b) |
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Seated luohan, Liao dynasty, ca. 1000, Yixian, Hebei Province, China, Earthenware with three-color (sancai) glaze (21.76) |
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Service plate for the 20th Century Limited train, 1938, Henry Dreyfuss (American), Glazed pottery (2002.585.2) |
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Shallow bowl, 6th–5th millennium B.C.; Ubaid period, Excavated at Ubaid Cemetery, Grave 134, Eridu, Mesopotamia, Ceramic (49.133.3) |
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Skyphos (drinking cup), 6th century B.C., Greek, Lydian, Terracotta (16.75.14) |
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Small figurine, Final Jomon period (ca. 1000–300 B.C.), Japan, Earthenware (1978.346) |
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Soup Bowl with Handles (Sopera con asas), ca. 1840, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware (11.87.51); Large Bowl, ca. 1840, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware (11.87.54); Footed Bowl with Heads, ca. 1845, Puebla, Tin-enameled earthenware (11.87.55) |
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Spherical Jar, Meroitic Period, ca. 100 B.C.–300 A.D., Meroitic, Painted pottery (08.202.47) |
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Spout in the shape of a man's head, 1st–2nd century A.D.; Parthian period, Iran, Glazed ceramic (56.56) |
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Spouted Bottle, 12th–4th century B.C., Ecuador; Chorrera, Ceramic (1988.117.6) |
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Spouted jar and stand, 9th century B.C.; Iron Age II, Excavated at Hasanlu cemetery, northwestern Iran, Ceramic (60.20.15) |
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Stand, Three Kingdoms period, Silla Kingdom, 5th–6th century, Korea, Stoneware with traces of incidental ash glaze (1997.34.23) |
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Standing court lady, Tang dynasty, mid-7th century, China, Earthenware with pigment (1978.345) |
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Standing figure, 1st–5th century,
Ecuador; Jama Coaque,
Ceramic (1980.34.38) |
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Standing Figure, end of 3rd millennium B.C., Ecuador; Valdivia, Ceramic (1980.83.12) |
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Standing male figure, Bronze and Iron Age, 300 B.C.–200 A.D., Indonesia, eastern Java, Earthenware (2000.284.42) |
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Statuette of a gladiator, 1st–2nd century A.D.; Imperial, Roman, Terracotta, (10.210.78) |
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Stem cup, Ban Chiang type, 1st millennium B.C., Thailand, Earthenware with painted and incised decoration (1987.424.4.2)
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Stemmed cup with murex decoration, late 14th century B.C.; Late Helladic IIIA:2, Mycenaean, Terracotta (1972.118.137) |
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Stirrup-spout bottle with snake, 2nd–3rd century,
Peru; Moche,
Ceramic (1992.60.9) |
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Stirrup-spout bottle, 12th–5th century B.C.,
Peru; Cupisnique,
Ceramic (1978.412.38) |
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Stirrup-spout bottle: figure with deer, 12th–5th century B.C.,
Peru; Cupisnique,
Ceramic (67.239.16) |
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Storage jar (albarello), late 13th–14th century, Iran, Fritware, overglaze painted (lajvardina) (57.61.12a,b) |
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Storage Jar (Urpu), 15th–early 16th century, Peru; Inka, Ceramic (1978.412.68) |
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Storage jar decorated with mountain goats, early 4th millennium B.C.; Chalcolithic period, Sialk III 7 type, Central Iran, Ceramic, paint (59.52) |
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Storage Jar, 600–700, Byzantine; Made in Egypt, Ceramic, painted (23.2.74) |
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Storage Jar, ca. 2000–1600 B.C., C-Group; From Faras, Upper Nubia, grave 3, Griffith excavations, Red and black ware with incised linear decoration (13.125.29) |
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Storage jar, late Yayoi period, ca. 100–200, Japan, Earthenware with incised decoration (1975.268.375) |
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Storage jar, Middle Jomon period (ca. 2500–1500 B.C.), Japan, Earthenware, unglazed (1975.268.182) |
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Storage jar, Muromachi period, 14th–15th century; Shigaraki ware, Japan, Stoneware with natural ash glaze (1975.268.428) |
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Storage jar, Yayoi period (ca. 4th century B.C.–3rd century A.D.), Japan, Earthenware (1975.268.378) |
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Tazza, ca. 1550–55, French (Saint-Porchaire), Lead-glazed white earthenware, with inlaid designs in brown clay (17.190.1745a,b) |
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Tea bowl, Song dynasty, 960–1279; Jian ware, Fujian Province, China, Stoneware with hare's-fur glaze (91.1.226) |
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Terracotta Figure of Isis-Aphrodite, Roman period, 2nd–3rd century,
Egyptian,
Alluvial clay; brown, black, red, and pink paint on white englobe (1991.76) |
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Terracotta figurine with articulated arms and legs, early 5th century B.C., Greek, Corinthian (44.11.8) |
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Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar) with figural medallion, 3rd century B.C.; Ptolemaic,
Greek (90.9.67) |
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Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar) with funerary inscription, 226–225 B.C.; Ptolemaic,
Greek (90.9.5) |
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Terracotta hydria (water jar), ca. 520–510 B.C.; black-figure,
Greek, Caeretan,
Attributed to the Eagle Painter (64.11.1) |
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Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar), ca. 510 B.C.; Archaic, red-figure,
Greek, Attic (56.171.31) |
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Terracotta standing male figurine holding a quadruped, ca. 750–600 B.C., Cypriot (74.51.1613); Terracotta standing warrior (?), ca. 750–600 B.C., Cypriot (74.51.1614); Terracotta standing warrior with a shield, ca. 750–600 B.C., Cypriot (74.51.1655); Terracotta standing male figurine playing a double flute, ca. 750–600 B.C., Cypriot (74.51.1691); Terracotta standing male figurine, ca. 750–600 B.C., Cypriot (74.51.1692) |
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Three female figures, ca.1400–1300 B.C.; Late Helladic IIIA, Mycenaean, Terracotta (35.11.16-.18) |
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Tile assemblage, first half of 13th century; Seljuq, Anatolia, Composite body, overglaze-painted (1976.245) |
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Tile from a squinch, second half of 14th century; Timurid, Samarqand, Uzbekistan, Earthenware, glazed (20.120.189) |
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Tile panel, 17th century, Syria, Six ceramic tiles, composite body, painted and glazed (22.185.13) |
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Tile panel, dated 1591–2; Ottoman, Syria, Composite body with underglaze paint (58.90.1a–g) |
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Tile with arabesque decoration, early 15th century; Ottoman, Anatolia (Bursa), Carved, glaze-painted, and gilded earthenware (1998.246) |
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Tile, ca. 1270–1280; Ilkhanid, Kashan, Iran, Composite body, molded and overglaze luster-painted (12.49.4) |
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Tile, first half of 15th century; Mamluk, Syria, Composite body with underglaze paint (x.228.1) |
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Tile, second half of 15th century; Mamluk, Egypt, Composite body with underglaze paint (67.69.4) |
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Tomb guardian (zhenmushou), Northern Wei to Northern Qi dynasties, mid- to late 6th century, China, Earthenware with pigment (1979.438) |
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Tomb Plaque, 400–800, Byzantine or Visigothic; Probably made in Spain, Terracotta (1985.147) |
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Tondo: Prudence, ca. 1475, Andrea della Robbia (Italian), Italian (Florence), Terracotta with tinted tin-enamel glazes (21.116) |
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Torso (A Study for Ariane without Arms), modeled ca. 1905 or earlier, Auguste Rodin (French), Terracotta (12.13.1) |
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Tray, dated 1784, Italian (Pesaro); Made at the Casali and Galigari Factory (59.208.26) |
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Tripod Bird Bowl, 3rd–4th century, Guatemala; Maya, Ceramic (1984.614a,b) |
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Two tiles, second half of 12th–early 13th century, Afghanistan, Earthenware, molded and glazed (1975.193.5,6) |
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Vase with blue glaze in gradated shades, Heisei period, 2001,
Miyashita Zenji (Japanese),
Stoneware with blue glazes (2001.732) |
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Vase, 1898,
Louis Comfort Tiffany (American),
Glazed porcelaneous earthenware (51.121.21) |
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Vase, ca. 1885,
Maker: Olivier de Sorra; Factory: Pierrefonds,
French (Pierrefonds), Stoneware (1991.390.1) |
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Vase, ca. 1899,
Designer: Max Läuger (German); Factory: Kandern Tonwerke,
German (Baden), Earthenware (1991.182.1) |
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Vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, late 17th–early 18th century, China, Porcelain painted in overglaze famille verte enamels and gilt (61.200.66) |
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Vase, Southern Song dynasty, 12th–13th century; Longquan ware, China, Possibly from the Dayao kilns, Zhejiang Province, Porcelaneous stoneware with relief decoration under celadon glaze (50.145.301) |
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Vessel (zun), late Shang dynasty, 13th–11th century B.C., Probably from Anyang, Henan Province, China, Earthenware with incised and relief decoration (50.61.5) |
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Vessel fragment with bird in profile, 7th–6th millennium B.C.; Halaf period, Excavated at Tell Brak, Eye Temple fill, Syria, Ceramic, paint (1988.323.7) |
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Vessel fragment with geometric design, 7th–6th century B.C., Anatolia, Phrygia, Gordion
Ceramic, paint (L.1994.96.6)
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Vessel fragment with rosette, 7th–6th millennium B.C.; Halaf period, Excavated at Tell Brak, FS 1314, Syria, Ceramic, paint (1988.323.6) |
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Vessel in the form of an elephant and rider, 14th–mid-16th century, Thailand, Earthenware with underglaze iron-brown decoration (Sawankhalok ware) (1989.238.41) |
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Vessel with Mythological Scene, 8th century, Mexico or Guatemala; Maya, Ceramic (1978.412.206) |
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Vessel, Predynastic Period, Naqada II, ca. 3450–3300 B.C., Egyptian, Painted pottery (20.2.10) |
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Volute-krater (vase for mixing wine and water), early 6th century B.C.,
Attributed to Sophilos,
Greek, Attic, Terracotta (1977.11.2) |
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Volute-krater, ca. 515 B.C.; red-figure, Attributed to the Karkinos Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (21.88.74) |
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Votive panels, Kushan dynasty, ca. 3rd century A.D., Bactria (northern Afghanistan), Terracotta and gouache (2000.42.2,4) |
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Wave bowl, ca. 1880,
Formerly attributed to Christopher Dresser (British),
Glazed earthenware (2001.549) |
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Wine Cistern, ca. 1562, Manufactured by the factory of Orazio Fontana, Urbino, Italy, Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) (32.100.362) |
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Wine ewer, Koryô dynasty, early 12th century, Korea, Stoneware with incised and carved design of geese, waterbirds, and reeds under celadon glaze (27.119.2) |
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Woman Wearing a Tunic, 4th–5th century; Early Byzantine, Egyptian; Probably Eshmunein, Plaster terracotta (12.185.4) |
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Yoke-Form Vessel, 5th century, Guatemala; Maya, Ceramic (1970.138a,b) |
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