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Rousseau is regarded as a major pioneer in the renewal of French glass design during the 19th century. In this example, a Japanese lady wearing a kimono and carrying a fan is posed against an oval doorway.
9 1/16 in. (23 cm)
medium: layered lass, lacquer, red enamel
style: Japonism
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
The two people on the left of this box lid's design are Portuguese traders, identifiable by their balloon-shaped pants. Facing them is a Jesuit priest in a long robe. Portuguese ships arrived in Japan in the 1540s. Imagery first made to document the appearance of the foreigners survived as decoration on later objects like this one.
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
lacquered wood with gold maki-e, silver inlay and red lacquer on black ground
23 x 20.2 cm (9 1/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Did you know...
The Japanese term <em>nanban</em> 南蛮 is used to describe designs like the one on this box.
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Thomas Kelah Wharton
American (born England), Hull 1814–1862 New Orleans, Louisiana
3 x 3 9/16 in. (7.6 x 9 cm)
medium: Graphite on white wove Bristol board
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1994.187.14 1994
Purchase, Mrs. Louis Marx Gift, 1994
This scroll is part of the 600-volume <em>Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra</em>. The sacred text addresses the perfection of wisdom and the nonsubstantiality of all phenomena, or the emptiness of all things. It takes the form of Shakyamuni Buddha’s preaching at four locations. This scroll is from the <em>Perfection of Wisdom in 100,000 Lines</em>, which occupies the first 400 volumes. At one time, religious clergy kept all the scrolls in a lacquered wood repository on view nearby. They are now too fragile to open and we will conserve them over time.
Japan, Heian period (794–1185)
Handscroll; ink and gold on dyed paper
Anonymous Gift
Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Tuthmosis III (1479–1425 BCE)–reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE)
Nile silt ware
Overall: 13.5 x 7.4 x 5 cm (5 5/16 x 2 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
Just like the last one, the illustration blows me away. I have a strong desire to be a better creator of characters.
This lapis lazuli amulet appears to represents a four-headed ram, which is connected to the idea of the four winds and the four points of the compass. The amulet is pierced under the belly and may have served as a part of a necklace.
H: 1/8 x W: 1/4 x D: 1/16 in. (0.38 x 0.61 x 0.08 cm)
medium: lapis lazuli
dynasty: Ptolemaic Dynasty
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Zhao Zhong's flowers, each paired with a poem, echo the fine-style colored flowers of the academic tradition, but instead he used only ink. Fine lines define the contours of each plant, as well as the veins within each petal and leaf. Careful ink washes give subtle modeling to the forms. <br><br>The combination of lily, narcissus, and peony is unusual as the three belong to no known seasonal or symbolic system popular in the fourteenth century. Zhao’s medical training may have influenced the selection. Powdered lilies, for example, were prescribed to dispel grief, while the bark of tree peony roots was used as a treatment for various blood disorders.
China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
Handscroll; ink on paper
Overall: 31.8 x 153.2 cm (12 1/2 x 60 5/16 in.)
Did you know...
This handscroll is a very rare example of ink flowers in the linear <em>baimiao</em> style of the fourteenth century.
John L. Severance Fund
Joseph Ward
active ca. 1740–60
84 3/4 x 20 x 10 in. (215.3 x 50.8 x 25.4 cm)
medium: Japanned white pine; brass, iron, glass
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1985.341 1985
Purchase, Virginia L-S Cowles, Diane L-S Hewat, and
Marne L-S Hornblower Gifts, in memory of their sister,
Clara Lloyd-Smith Weber, 1986