Collections: Items Tagged "folklore"

  • 1st Floor
    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Bowl in the Shape of a Gourd, Kyoto Ware

This bowl by the celebrated late Edo potter Nin'ami Dohachi is executed in the decorative style of Kyoto ware. In the shape of a gourd (hisa...

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: Amulet with a Stylized Figure of Heh, the God of Eternity

    The three metal amulets in this case are highly stylized versions of a common Middle Kingdom motif: a kneeling figure of Heh, the god of ete...

     

    Login to play

    Login with Google ID

    Forgot your password?

    Not a Posse member? Register

    Brooklyn Museum Posse:
    Exploring the collection

    When you join the posse, your tags comments and favorites will display with your attribution and save to your profile.

    advanced 99,438 records currently online.

    Found 2 Items Tagged "folklore"


    Cizhou Ware Pillow in the Form of a TigerSongoku, the Monkey King and the Jeweled Hare by the Moon
    Objects