On View: Egyptian Priest Kneeling with Offering Table
The kneeling posture conveys honor and reverence. The offering table suggests appeasement because it takes the form of a hieroglyph for &ldq...
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Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.
On View: Toilet Dish in Two Parts in the Form of a Fish
A container for cosmetics or possibly medical ointment, this covered dish represents a tilapia fish. The tilapia symbolized fertility and wa...
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