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40.4 x 27.8 x 3.7 cm (660 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Late Edo Period; Mid 19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Furnishings : Household Accessories : Storage & Display Accessories

39 x 27.4 x 6 cm (460 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Late Edo Period; Mid 19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Furnishings : Household Accessories : Storage & Display Accessories

39.5 x 13.2 x 12.6 cm (903 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Classification/Nomenclature: Furnishings : Household Accessories : Storage & Display Accessories

29.1 x 19.2 x 16.6 cm (1222 g)

Location: Asia, East: China
Period: Late 18th/19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

51.5 x 33.4 x 2.3 cm (1221 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Meiji Period
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

14.4 x 9.9 x 7.9 cm (173 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Late Meiji Period; Mid June 1907
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This is a Japanese okimono of a lionhead goldfish. Fish have often held significance in Japanese legend as animals representing perseverance and fertility...

13.8 x 8.5 x 6.1 cm (166 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Late Meiji Period; Mid June 1907
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This is a Japanese okimono of a lionhead goldfish. Fish have often held significance in Japanese legend as animals representing perseverance and fertility...

23.2 x 17 x 12.6 cm (425 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Meiji Period; Mid June 1907
Classification/Nomenclature: Distribution & Transportation Artifacts : Containers

23.2 x 10.9 x 1.7 cm (80 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Meiji Period; Mid June 1907
Classification/Nomenclature: Distribution & Transportation Artifacts : Containers

14.8 x 10.7 x .8 cm (57 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Meiji Period; Mid June 1907
Classification/Nomenclature: Distribution & Transportation Artifacts : Containers

14.8 x 10.7 x .8 cm (54 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Meiji Period; Mid June 1907
Classification/Nomenclature: Distribution & Transportation Artifacts : Containers

22 x 17.4 x 10 cm (832 g)

Location: Asia, East: China
Period: People's Republic of China; Circa 1950s
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

28.2 x 17.4 x 10.1 cm (1192 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: C. 1890
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

25.5 x 8.3 x 7.4 cm (539 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Meiji Period
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

16.5 x 9.7 x 9.5 cm (420 g)

Location: Asia, East: China
Period: Late 19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

28.2 x 9.5 x 8.5 cm (352 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: 1865-1912
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This is a Japanese okimono of a bird pecking at the stem of a persimmon fruit. The okimono, meaning “object of display,” is a Japanese model or free-standing figure that developed from the smaller netsukes, which were clothing fasteners that appeared as three-dimensional carved figures or flattened and engraved buttons or boxes...

25 x 20.3 x 13.9 cm (1797 g)

Location: Asia, East: China
Period: 18th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This is a rootwood carving of a Lohan, one of the 500 Buddhist disciples to achieve enlightenment. Lohans followed the Noble Eightfold Path established by the Shaka (historical Buddha) and earned the title of Mugaku (nothing else to learn)...

22 x 14.8 x 14 cm (741 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

24.8 x 15.1 x 12.2 cm (973 g)

Location: Asia, East: China
Period: Qing Dynasty; 19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This is a bamboo wood carving of Hehe Erxian, the twin Buddhist immortals of mirth. Their names are Shide and Hanshan...

25 x 16.8 x 13.7 cm (3105 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Mid 19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

12.2 x 9.6 cm (271 g)

Location: Asia, East: China
Period: Contemporary
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

14.6 x 12.5 x 11.8 cm (393 g)

Location: Asia, East: China
Period: Late Qing or Early Republic Period
Classification/Nomenclature: Distribution & Transportation Artifacts : Containers
Description: The Chinese bitong (brush pot) was an ideal interior design piece for the scholar's desk. The concept of the "four treasures" (inkstone, ink, brush, and paper) of a scholar's study became an appreciated facet of interior design during the Song Dynasty (960-1279)...

30.9 x 13.2 x 11.2 cm (564 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: 19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This is a Japanese okimono of the Rakan (Lohan) Handaka Sonja, a Buddhist holy figure. Rakans have learned the teachings of the Shaka (historical Buddha) and earned the title of Mugaku (nothing else to learn) when passing the different stages of the Noble Path...

31 x 21.7 x 10.4 cm (1245 g)

Location: Asia, East: China
Period: 18th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

23 x 9.7 x 7.5 cm (510 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: 19th Century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This is a Japanese boxwood okimono of Fudo-Myo, the Shinto god of fire, with a dragon. The okimono, meaning “object of display,” is a Japanese model or free-standing figure that developed from the smaller netsukes, which were clothing fasteners that appeared as three-dimensional carved figures or flattened and engraved buttons or boxes...