Duck-form ink palette
Chinese
Tortoise-form ink palette
Chinese
Three-Ounce Weight with Imperial Busts of Justin II, Sophia and Justinian(?), r. 565 - 578 CE
Justin II
Elongated Gold Weight, Stamped with Letter Delta
Byzantine
Polished Bone Stylus
Coptic
Inkwell
Roman
Dress Weight
Mycenaean
Fragment of a Spindle Whorl
Helladic
Wine Strainer
Etruscan
Spool
Mycenaean
Baren (used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to transfer pigment)
Japanese
Baren (used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to transfer pigment)
Japanese
Double-sided wooden printing block: on one side a facsimile of the keyblock of Hiroshige's Clearing Storm over Awazu (Awazu no seiran), from the series Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei), on the reverse an anonymous green colorblock of willow branches in a storm, 1797 - 1858
Design after Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
Single-sided wooden printing block: fan-shaped Bunchō image of the actor Ichikawa Mononosuke, from the series Ehon butai ogi, active 1765 - 1792
Designed by Ippitsusai Bunchō
Single-sided wooden printing block: Courtesans in the "Primitive" style
Japanese
Singled-sided (split?) wooden printing block: two "angels" playing musical instruments
Japanese
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