Double-sided wooden printing block: one side showing the background from an Omi hakkei series, the reverse showing a rain pattern, 1797 - 1858

Designed by Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Double-sided wooden printing block: on one side the keyblock to one of Hiroshige's Tōtō meishō sakatsukushi no uchi images, on the reverse the keyblock to Twenty Warriors by Utagawa Yoshitora(?), 1797 - 1858

Designed by Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Single-sided wooden printing block: fan-shaped Bunchō image of the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu, from the series Ehon butai ogi, active 1765 - 1792

Designed by Ippitsusai Bunchō

Double-sided wooden printing block: one side showing a Kuniyoshi image, the reverse showing Sawamura Tanosuke from the series Mitate rokkasen, 1798 - 1861

Designed by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Double-sided wooden printing block: one side showing a Harunobu image, the reverse showing two women and a child beside a wheel, 1725-1770

Designed by Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信

Lead Weight

Greek

Stick of Ink with manufacturer's label on one side and with flower, bird, and cloud design on reverse

Japanese

Lead Weight

Greek

Woodblock: Francis James Child, 1843 - 1907

Gustav Kruell

Stencil, 1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

Stencil, 1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

Brushpot with Subtly Articulated Base and Lip

Chinese

Cylindrical Brushpot with Decoration of Figures on a Raft

Chinese

Cylindrical Brush Case with Landscape Decoration

Chinese

Loom Weight

LoomWeight

Terracotta Loom Weight

Greek

Strigil (Scraper) Fragment

Greek

Long-Handled Calligraphy Brush with Decoration of Two Dragons Pursuing a Flaming Jewel above Rolling Waves

Chinese

Block of Ink labeled "Listening to the Wind in the Pines" (Choseifu) in gold on one side and with a pine tree design on reverse

Japanese