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This lithograph contains drawings of two animals. At the bottom center, there is a bear sitting and looking to the right. Along the top of the print, there is a tiger laying down on an unseen surface, its tail hanging down on the right. The print is signed (l.r.) "E. Munch" and numbered (l.l.) "Tiere XIX 26" in pencil.
Edvard Munch (Norwegian)
Tiger og bjørn
1908 – 1909
Museum Purchase
1954/2.31
This is a smooth stoneware piece in the form of a crouching tiger. It has a concave platform on its back and is covered in white slip with black calligraphic stripes. The platform is painted with a bird among grasses. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Pillow
1115 – 1234
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.103
In this black and white print, there are two tigers in the center of the image: the larger one lays with its head to the left and the other lies on the first tiger's back in the opposite direction. The background is a closed-in scene, dark on the left side and lighter on the right. The print is titled (l.c.) "Jeune Tigre jouant avec sa mère", signed (l.l.) "Eug. Delacroix.", printer signed (l.r.) "Lith. Betauts.r.S.mare" and the series labeled (u.c.) "L'ARTISTE" in the plate.
Eugène Delacroix (French (culture or style))
Jeune Tigre jouant avec sa mère
1831
Gift of Ruth W. and Clarence J. Boldt, Jr.
2008/2.379
This is a rubbing of a figure with the head of a tiger dressed in robes. It appears to be holding an object in the right hand.<br /> &nbsp; <p>These rubbings are taken from reliefs of the twelve Chinese zodiac animal deities on the surface of guardian rocks (&egrave;&shy;&middot;&ccedil;&Yuml;&sup3;, hoseok ) placed around the edge of the tumulus of General Kim Yusin (&eacute;&Dagger;&lsquo;&aring;&ordm;&frac34;&auml;&iquest;&iexcl;, 595&acirc;&euro;&ldquo;673) on Songhwasan Mountain (&aelig;&frac34;&egrave;&Scaron;&plusmn;&aring;&plusmn;&plusmn;) in Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province. The twelve animal deities guard the twelve Earthly Branches which can be interpreted as spatial directions. Each animal deity has the face of a certain animal and a body of human. The twelve animal deities occur in the following order according to the Chinese zodiac: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. While the twelve deities on guardian stones placed around royal tumuli from
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Twelve Zodiac Animals: Tiger
1945 – 1980
Transfer from the Department of the History of Art, Slide and Photograph Collection, gift of Mrs. Pilsoon L. Chun
2021/1.128.3
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