August 21, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Ichikawa Danjūrō V as a Skeleton, Spirit of the Renegade Monk Seigen, and Iwai Hanshirō IV as the Cherry Princess, in “Flower of Edo: An Ichikawa Saga” (Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga)
Katsukawa Shunsho
Japan 
1783
Color woodblock print; hosoban diptych
Clarence Buckingham Collection
1938.491
© The Art Institute of Chicago

 
 
August 17, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

南宋/元 佚名 六馬圖 卷
Six Horses
Unidentified artists (Chinese, 13th century [first half of scroll]; 14th century [second half of scroll])
13th–14th century
China
Handscroll; ink and color on paper
Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
1989.363.5
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
July 30, 2023 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Fox Headdress or Back Ornament
© Linden-Museum, Stuttgart

 
 
July 28, 2023 | Michaela Appel
 

Female Figure from Aitutaki, Munich State Museum of Ethnology, H. 58,5 cm, 190
Photo: Marietta Weidner

 
 
July 26, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Fragment of a coping: a winged griffin and youthful combatant
Amaravati stupa, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh Sada, 2nd –1st century BCE.
Limestone, 48.3 × 76.2 × 14 cm
Collection: Archaeological Museum, Amaravati, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh

 
 
July 24, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Monkey
猿像
Possibly 1700s
Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
Wood
Overall: 55.3 cm (21 3/4 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1924.350
© The Cleveland Museum of Art

 
 
 
July 21, 2023 | Editorial Team

Water dropper in the form of a duck
Goryeo period, 12th century
Korea, Jeolla-do province, Gangjin or Buan county, Gangjin or Buan kilns
Stoneware with iron pigment under celadon glaze
H x W: 7.5 x 13.8 cm (2 15/16 x 5 7/16 in)
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Freer Gallery of Art
F1909.24

 
 
July 19, 2023 | Editorial Team
 
June 29, 2023 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Anthropomorphic Pendant | Hei-Tiki
© The Trustees of the British Museum

 
 
June 26, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Enma-o, king and judge of hell, 1500–1600. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Wood with gesso and traces of multicolor paint with inlaid glass eyes. 18 1/4 x D. 13 1/4 in. (48.3 x 46.4 x 33.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. George Mann, 79.277.