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This painting depicts the bodhisattva Jizō standing by the bank of a river surrounded by children.  The majority of these are seated on the ground, creating small piles of rocks, but a few pull on the divinity’s robes. At a distance is a red demonic figure (oni) leaning on a staff with his arm outstretched over the water. 
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
The Bodhisattva Jizô with a demon and children
1700 – 1899
Gift of Susan Pratt Walton in honor of Catherine Mariotti Pratt and James Bisset
1986/1.190
This lightly colored landscape features figures standing on a covered bridge enjoying the distant waterfall. To the left of the painting, there are trees with rocks scattered around on the ground. In the distance, there are mountains that contain a little greenery. The waterfall comes out of these mountains and empties into a river; mist formes from this. In the top left corner of the painting, there is a signature.
Ikeno Taiga;Ikeno Gyokuran
Mountain Landscape
1725 – 1775
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1983/1.354

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian (culture or style))
Roman Antiquities Series. Vol. III, Pl. V. Mattoni quadrati segati e linee diag
1720 – 1778
Gift of Miss Anna M. Barnard
1955/2.6
A blue and white platter. White porcellanous body with painting in blue under a clear glaze slightly tinged with blue-green.
Ali ibn al-Hajj Muhammad
Platter with an inscription from a Hadith [a saying of the Prophet Muhammad], signed by Ali ibn al-Hajj Muhammad
1600 – 1799
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.158

Thai
Head of a Buddha, with flaming topknot
1600 – 1799
Gift of the Estate of Margaret E. Tracy
1978/2.46

Joseph Rosset
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)
1726 – 1786
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1969/2.14

Brocaded Silk
1700 – 1750
The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1972/2.245

Brocaded Silk
1730 – 1740
The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1972/2.311B

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Fang lei (square wine vessel) with bas relief bird designs
1700 – 1899
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.100

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Mirror or relief plaque with scene of Taigong Wang fishing
18th century
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.102
This is a small, globular stoneware jar with a slightly tapered base and a narrow, tapering, short neck. A raised, wavy line decoration encircles the shoulder. The jar is covered in a pale, mottled, blue-green glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
18th century
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.62

French (French (culture or style))
Silk Embroidery, One of 5 fragments of a waistcoat
1700 – 1770
The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1972/2.267A
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