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A tall stoneware ovoid bottle on a straight footring with a narrow, short, flaring neck and a direct rim. It has four loop handles connecting the neck to shoulder, incised with floral decoration, and the upper half of the body is covered in green, amber, and yellow polychrome glazes. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bottle
1271 – 1368
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.152
A gray earthenware head from a horse sculpture vividly sculpted to show the musculature of the horse's face with flaring nostrils and an open mouth showing its tongue. It has deep set and bulging eyes and loss of ears and neck. The head has traces of red and white mineral pigment. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Horse Head
25 – 220
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.84
This hanging scroll shows a monk seated cross-legged on a lotus pedestal with his head and shoulders surrounded by a white halo. He is dressed in black robes, with a white, geometrically patterened kesa. He holds a Buddhist rosary in both hands, and looks downwards into the distance. 
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Portrait of a Monk (Hônen?): Pilgrimage Souvenir from Hôshôji, Kodairao ?) Village, Wakayama Prefecture
19th century
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1971/2.11
In this image, several men and a woman sit on the floor, eating in a relaxed and animated manner.  Behind them, at the top left, two older men sit on a raised platform, engaged in something serious.  Clothes can be seen folded in containers and the back of the print.  Another room is visible at the bottom right.<br /><br />
This is the center panel of a tryptich (with 1969/2.143 and 1969/2.145)<br /><br />
Inscriptions: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Publisher's seal); Kunisada ga (Artist's signature)<br />
 
Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese (culture or style))
Backstage Celebrations of a Full-house Hit at the Nakamura Theater
1805 – 1815
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.144
This image shows several men and women busily moving about. At the right, three men are seated on the floor, watching the commotion. A shrine is partly visible behind them. Furniture, clothes piles, and cast-off sandals add to the business of the scene. Small blocks of text identify each of the individuals.<br /><br />
This is the right panel of a triptych (with 1969/2.147 and 1969/2.148).<br /><br />
Inscriptions: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Publisher's seal); Kunisada ga (Artist's signature)
Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese (culture or style))
Backstage Celebrations of a Full-house Hit at the Ichimura Theater
1811
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.146

Gao Fenghan (Kao Fêng-han)
Flowers, Fruit and Trees
1720 – 1748
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.142
This double-leaf print depicts two camels and accompanying foreign trainers or performers in fringed clothing, with ballooning pants and dark boots.  Some of the performers play instruments, while others tend to the camels.  Above both pages is writing by calligrapher Santô Kyôden describing the camels and their tour of Japan around 1821.
Utagawa Kuniyasu
Camel
1824
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.90

Utagawa Sadahide
A True View of Shops in Yokohama (part of a triptych)
1833 – 1866
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.150

Iranian (Iranian)
Qur'an manuscript page
18th century
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.95
A stoneware globular jar with straight, wide neck and direct rim, and bowstring bands around the waist and shoulder, four loop lugs connecting the neck to shoulder, and the upper half covered in a gray-green celadon glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
6th century
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.88

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Silk Tapestry Weave
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1972/2.285
A gray earthenware sculpture of a crouching dog on a platform, resting on his two front paws, mouth open and pointed ears, long tail with curled end, with polychrome mineral pigments. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Dog
5th century
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.87
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