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This glazed plate is attributed to the Safavid period in Iran. The interior decoration consists of yellow splashes on a glossy red-brown glaze. 
Iranian (Iranian)
Plate with deep red-brown glaze spashed with yellow (cracked)
1600 – 1899
Museum Purchase
1957/1.98
This hour-glass shaped stool is supported by two caryatid figures who sit in a pose of lamentation—crouched with head in hands. Scarified patterned abstracted tears spill from their lower eyelids. Brass studs adorn the perimeter of the stool’s seat, base, and figures. Both figures wear strings of black, red and white beads around their necks.
Chokwe (Chokwe (culture or style))
Caryatid stool
1850 – 1899
Gift of Candis and Helmut Stern
2005/1.204
Silver teakettle and stand with hinged handle and opulent repoussé decoration
Samuel Kirk
Hot water kettle with stand, from six piece silver coffee and tea service
1845 – 1855
Gift of Mrs. George G. Cameron
1982/2.57A
Pitcher-shaped silver vessel with square handle and opulent repoussé decoration
Samuel Kirk
Creamer, from six piece silver coffee and tea service
1845 – 1855
Gift of Mrs. George G. Cameron
1982/2.57F

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Karatsu Ware Bowl (Mukôzuke)
1600 – 1899
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.542
Tall, narrow silver pot with long spout, finial-topped lid, square handle and opulent repoussé decoration
Samuel Kirk
Coffee pot, from six piece silver coffee and tea service
1845 – 1855
Gift of Mrs. George G. Cameron
1982/2.57B
Silver vessel with bowl-shaped body, stemmed foot and opulent repoussé decoration
Samuel Kirk
Slop bowl, from six piece silver coffee and tea service
1845 – 1855
Gift of Mrs. George G. Cameron
1982/2.57D
Gold-weight in the shape of a curved rectangle with raised bands along its length. At one end is a ball attached to a conical handle and bound in the middle, while at the other end there are three short rods bound at each tip and a square-shaped protrusion. 
Akan (Akan (culture or style))
Gold-weight
1900 – 1985
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.503

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Jar
1600 – 1899
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1973/2.37

Nepali
Indra
1600 – 1899
Bequest of Thakur Rup Chand
1995/1.56
Depicted&nbsp;are the Seven Lucky Gods. One is standing on one foot with his belly showing and a staff&nbsp;running along his sholders. Three others are crouching on the ground to the right of the standing god. The first is Ebisu in court robes with a rod in one hand and a fan in the other. The next god is in green robes and a tall hat. The last one, Hotei, is sitting on the ground pointing with his belly showing. Across from these three gods are three more, all laying on the ground. The first is in a green robe facing and holding a drink to the god on his right Benzaiten. She is in red robes but also&nbsp;half-naked. On her right is another god Fukurokuju in tan tobes with an elongated&nbsp;forehead. On the bottom right of the hanging scroll is a signature and two seals.<br /> &nbsp;
Mori Kōga (Takamasa)
Bacchanalian Revelry of the Seven Lucky Gods
1833 – 1866
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern
1985/2.20
Short, squat silver pot with short spout, finial-topped lid, tall square handle and opulent repouss&eacute; decoration
Samuel Kirk
Teapot, from six piece silver coffee and tea service
1845 – 1855
Gift of Mrs. George G. Cameron
1982/2.57C
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