Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
Small, Forward-Curving Sculpture Representing a Standing or Bowing Female Figure

Small, Forward-Curving Sculpture Representing a Standing or Bowing Female Figure

Chinese

This is a light brown, circular ceramic vase with two circular handles below the shoulder and a long spout with a flared opening. It has dark brown horizontal lines as decoration.

Bottle

Chinese

A jade cong that is shaped as a tall cylinder and stands upright. It is black in color. The outer part of the cong is square in shape with some simple engraved details along the edges. There is a hole at the center top of the piece.

Squared Cylinder "Cong" with Human-face Motifs on 5.5 Registers

Chinese

Mottled green jade object in conical form, with carved arcs design.

Large Ceremonial Jade Object, Perhaps a Headdress

Chinese

An implement made of polished stone with a crescent shaped tip on a tapered shaft

Jade Mace Head (?)

Chinese

A jade ring that is caramel colored. It has an average-sized band width. There are relief-cut shapes that create mask designs all around the piece.

Jade Ring with Mask Designs in Relief

Chinese

A jade ring that is green and off-white in color. The ring is tall and cut with many small horizontal ridges going down along the side of the piece.

Fluted Jade Ring

Chinese

A jade bracelet that is pale yellow in color with some white and brown discoloration. It is a wide band and has engraved lines along its side. The top of the bracelet slopes down a bit.

Ornate Jade Bracelet

Chinese

Portrait of the Sculptor Friedrich

Portrait of the Sculptor Friedrich, 1858 - 1925

Lovis Corinth

Lid for a canopic jar in the shape of a human head

Lid for a canopic jar in the shape of a human head

Egyptian

Spouted tripod ewer (he)

Spouted tripod ewer (he)

Chinese

Stem cup

Stem cup

Chinese

Stem Cup

Stem Cup

Chinese

A dark green-grey cast bronze vessel that flares at the bottom and the top. The middle is long and narrow. The whole object is decorated with finely engraved lines that make a pattern except for triangle-shaped areas on the top.

'Gu' Ritual Wine Vessel with 'Taotie' Decor

Chinese

A blue-green flat object that is rectangle-shaped at the bottom with a smaller pentagon shape at the top. It is covered in inlaid turquoise pieces. The edges have a dark grey-green line with rough texture along them that swirl and curve into the middle of the middle. Two 3D pale orbs are near the bottom-center of the piece.

Turquoise-Inlaid Plaque with Stylized Animal-Mask Decoration and Elongated Extension

Chinese

Tetradrachm of Leontinoi

Tetradrachm of Leontinoi

Greek

A painted portrait of an extravagantly dressed woman seated at a table, applying pink powder blush to her cheeks.

Pompadour at Her Toilette, 1703 - 1770

François Boucher

Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man, 1472-1528

Pietro Torrigiano

Portrait of a Woman, possibly Mary Rose Tudor

Portrait of a Woman, possibly Mary Rose Tudor, 1472-1528

Pietro Torrigiano

Socketed Axe Head

Socketed Axe Head

Irish

<<<11121314 >>>