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Double-sided wood printing block from Book on the Process of Woodblock Printing (Hanga shūsatsu junjo chō), with a design of Compared Poems of the Four Seasons (Shiki no kuawase)

Katsukawa Shunchō 勝川春潮, 18th century

Double-sided carved wooden printing block

18th centuryJapanese

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Katagami Textile Stencil with Hare and Geometric Medallion and Stylized Plant Design

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 "ito-ire" (silk-web) reinforcement

19th-20th centuryJapanese

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Pen Box with Hadith Inscription

Unknown Artist, second half of the 14th century

Brass, incised (thuluth band) and inlaid with silver and gold

14th centuryPersian

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Inkwell with inscriptions

Unknown Artist, c. 1200

leaded brass with silver and copper inlay

12th-13th centuryPersian

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Inkwell

Unknown Artist, 12th-13th century

Metal

12th-13th centuryPersian

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Stick of Ink with manufacturer's label on one side and with flower, bird, and cloud design on reverse

Unknown Artist, Shōwa period, 1970-1979

Molded ink stick: vegetable soot and animal glue

20th centuryJapanese

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Block of Ink labeled "Listening to the Wind in the Pines" (Choseifu) in gold on one side and with a pine tree design on reverse

Unknown Artist, Shōwa period, 1972

Molded block of ink: vegetable soot and animal glue (with gold)

20th centuryJapanese

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Large Brush Rest in the Form of Five Mountain Peaks and with Persian Inscription Reading "Khama Dan" (Brush Rest)

Unknown Artist, Zhengde period, 1506-1521

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Zhengde nian zhi" within a double square on the base

16th centuryChinese

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Lithographic stone: "Ma blanchisseuse!"

Paul Gavarni, 1846

Black lithographic crayon on stone

19th centuryFrench

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Copper Plate for "Somme Front" and "Rouen"

James McBey, c. 1916

Copper plate with drypoint and etched lines

20th centuryBritish, Scottish

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DOUBLE-SIDED CARVED PRINTING BLOCK FOR POPULAR PRINTS (KUANYIN; LEFT BLUE DRAGON)

Unknown Artist, c. 1850-1925

Wood

19th-20th centuryChinese

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SAKYAMUNI ASSEMBLIES (CARVED PRINTING BLOCK TO PRINT DOUBLE PAGE OF BOOK)

Unknown Artist

Wood

Chinese

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Korean moveable metal type

Unknown Artist, 17th-19th century

Cast bronze

17th-19th centuryKorean

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Korean moveable metal type

Unknown Artist, 17th-19th century

Cast bronze

17th-19th centuryKorean

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Korean moveable metal type

Unknown Artist, 17th-19th century

Cast bronze

17th-19th centuryKorean

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Korean moveable metal type

Unknown Artist, 17th-19th century

Cast bronze

17th-19th centuryKorean

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Wood Block for Printing Buddhist text

Unknown Artist, c. 1700

Carved wood

18th centuryTibetan

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Relief Stamp

Unknown Artist, first half 5th century BCE

Copper

5th century BCEGreek

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A Turkish Scribe's Kit

Unknown Artist, 1757-1774

Silver with gilding and inlaid garnet

18th centuryOttoman

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Long-Handled Calligraphy Brush with Decoration of Two Dragons Pursuing a Flaming Jewel above Rolling Waves

Unknown Artist, Qianlong period, 1736-1795

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome and gold enamels; with red enamel mark reading "Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters immediately above the bristles; with white hair bristles covered with a silk cap

18th centuryChinese