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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), in business 1769-1780

Wedgwood & Bentley

Seated Bodhisattva (Kongoho Bosatsu), from a notebook depicting the Diamond World Mandala (Kongōkai Mandara)

Seated Bodhisattva (Kongoho Bosatsu), from a notebook depicting the Diamond World Mandala (Kongōkai Mandara), active circa 1132 - 1174

Attributed to Takuma Tametō

Cover from a large accordion-fold printed book "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Cover from a large accordion-fold printed book "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演

Cover from a large accordion-fold printed book "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Cover from a large accordion-fold printed book "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演

Illustrated Anthology of Ancient and Modern Verse (Kokin wakashū) in Five Volumes

Illustrated Anthology of Ancient and Modern Verse (Kokin wakashū) in Five Volumes

Japanese

Young Man Watching Woman Writing, detatched frontispiece from the Cuckoo's Verse Picturebook (Ehon haikai yabukodori)

Young Man Watching Woman Writing, detatched frontispiece from the Cuckoo's Verse Picturebook (Ehon haikai yabukodori), 1726 - 1792

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

Preface by Ota Nampo ('Yomo Sanjin" or Yomo no Akara) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Preface by Ota Nampo ('Yomo Sanjin" or Yomo no Akara) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演

Guanyin Chapter from an Illustrated Lotus Sutra (Miaofa lianhua jing Guanshiyin pusa pumenpin)

Guanyin Chapter from an Illustrated Lotus Sutra (Miaofa lianhua jing Guanshiyin pusa pumenpin)

Chinese

Seated Bodhisattva Vajrapuspâ (Kongōke Bosatsu), from a notebook depicting the Diamond World Mandala (Kongōkai Mandara), from a book once housed at Mount Kōya (Wakayama prefecture) and then later in the temple Ganjō-ji (Kumamoto prefecture)

Seated Bodhisattva Vajrapuspâ (Kongōke Bosatsu), from a notebook depicting the Diamond World Mandala (Kongōkai Mandara), from a book once housed at Mount Kōya (Wakayama prefecture) and then later in the temple Ganjō-ji (Kumamoto prefecture), active circa 1132 - 1174

Attributed to Takuma Tametō

Collection of Designs and Crests for Various Art Objects

Collection of Designs and Crests for Various Art Objects

Japanese

Gaily Illustrated Story of Mid-Heian Court Life (Utsubo monogatari)

Gaily Illustrated Story of Mid-Heian Court Life (Utsubo monogatari)

Japanese

Tale of the Pagoda Made of Sand, Text Fragment from the Illustrated "Tales of Three Jewels" (Sambō-ekotoba) from Tōdai-ji, Nara

Tale of the Pagoda Made of Sand, Text Fragment from the Illustrated "Tales of Three Jewels" (Sambō-ekotoba) from Tōdai-ji, Nara, 1055 - 1129

Traditionally attributed to Minamoto no Toshiyori

Poems Assembled (Kinrai waka)

Poems Assembled (Kinrai waka), 1648 - 1722

Attributed to Konoe Motohiro

Burrhus Kneeling before Peron

Burrhus Kneeling before Peron

Anonymous France 1840

Printed Preface to Lotus Sutra (Hokke gengijo)

Printed Preface to Lotus Sutra (Hokke gengijo)

Japanese

Poems Compiled by Yoshida Kenkō, 1283-1350 (Kenkō kashū)

Poems Compiled by Yoshida Kenkō, 1283-1350 (Kenkō kashū)

Japanese

Landscapes of Taiping Prefecture ('Taiping shanshui tu')

Landscapes of Taiping Prefecture ('Taiping shanshui tu'), 1596 - 1674

Xiao Yuncong 蕭雲從

Ishiyama-gire Page: Poems of Lady Ise

Ishiyama-gire Page: Poems of Lady Ise, 1088 - 1156?

Traditionally attributed to Fujiwara Sadanobu

Coin of Constantine VIII

Coin of Constantine VIII, r. 1025 - 1028

Constantine VIII

Coin of Basil II

Coin of Basil II, r. 976 - 1025

Basil II

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