Pen Box with Flowers, Birds, and Butterfly

Slide viewer

Unknown Artist, 20th century

Insulin syringe

Printing Block: Pages Twenty Seven (recto and verso) and Twenty Eight (recto and verso) of the Appendix to the Collected Literary Works of Hunsu Sŏnsaeng [Chŏng Manyang 鄭萬陽 (1664–1730)]

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Carved and engraved wood; ten bordered columns of text per recto and per verso; twenty two characters per column. Text in Chinese characters.

18th-19th centuryKorean

Unknown Artist, 20th century

Small paintbrush

Ink eraser

Woodblock for replicating Painting Manual by Noted Shanghai Artists (Haishang mingren huagao)

Unknown Artist, c. 1885

Ink on carved wood

19th centuryChinese

Wood-engraving block: "Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, and yet I could not die"

Gustave Doré, 19th century

19th centuryFrench

Pen Box with Flowers

`Ali Ashraf, 1748-1749

Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, copper alloy particles, and lacquer over brass layer on pasteboard

18th century

Katagami Textile Stencil with Miniature Pattern (Komon) of Stylized Plants and Undulating Lines

Unknown Artist, Late Edo-Meiji period, 19th-early 20th century

Chūban (medium-sized) minogami (mulberry bark paper) treated with persimmon juice and cut using the "dōgubori" (punch-carving) and "tsukibori" (thrust-carving) techniques; with ink

19th-20th centuryJapanese

Lens shade mask

Pen Box with Holy Family and Female Portrait Medallions

Najaf `Ali, 1848-1849

Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard

19th century

Hanging hardware