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Flaminio Innocenzo Minozzi
Section of an Illusionistically Painted Ceiling
1735 – 1817
Museum Purchase
1959/2.33
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
This portrait of the poet Matsuo Bashō is constructed with seemingly effortless caligraphic lines, and surrounded by lines from one of the poet's works. The figure sits looking out at the viewer, beside his hat and a square container with a handle. The artist's seal is placed to the left of the figure, visually recalling the objects beside the poet on his other side. 
Yokoi Kinkoku (Japanese (culture or style))
Portrait of the Poet 'Basho'
1767 – 1832
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1968/2.22

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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