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Artists' Tools

Small, all-wooden brush with fibrous tip, from a set of Japanese brushes

Unknown Artist

Soft wooden handle with tip splintered to make bristle fibers

Japanese

Artists' Tools

Small hair-bristled brush, from a set of Japanese brushes

Unknown Artist

Wooden handled-brush with animal hair bristles

Japanese

Artists' Tools

Baren (tool used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to in order to transfer the pigment)

Unknown Artist

Japanese

Artists' Tools

Baren (tool used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to in order to transfer the pigment)

Unknown Artist

Japanese

Artists' Tools

Baren (tool used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to in order to transfer the pigment)

Unknown Artist

Japanese

Artists' Tools

Baren (tool used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to in order to transfer the pigment)

Unknown Artist

Japanese

Artists' Tools

Baren (used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to transfer pigment)

Unknown Artist

Lacquered wood and persimmon-juiced paper support with coiled bamboo-leaf pad and bamboo-leaf wrapper

Japanese

Artists' Tools

Baren (used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to transfer pigment)

Unknown Artist

Lacquered fabric and persimmon-juiced paper support with coiled bamboo-leaf pad and bamboo-leaf wrapper

Japanese

Artists' Tools

Baren (tool used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to in order to transfer the pigment)

Unknown Artist, 19th-20th century

Lacquered paper over coiled banana-fiber cord, wrapped in a banana leaf

19th-20th centuryJapanese

Artists' Tools

Baren (tool used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to in order to transfer the pigment)

Unknown Artist

Japanese

Artists' Tools

Baren (tool used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to in order to transfer the pigment)

Unknown Artist

Japanese

Artists' Tools

ETCHED COPPER PLATE WITH JAPANESE SCENE

Unknown Artist, 20th century

20th centuryBritish, English

Artists' Tools

Broad-bladed knife, from a set of Japanese printing tools

Unknown Artist

Broad, rectangular metal blade

Wood

Katagami Textile Stencil Fragment with Circular Grass and Flower Design

Unknown Artist, Meiji-Shōwa period, late 19th-early 20th century

Kakuban (square-shaped) minogami (mulberry bark paper) treated with persimmon juice and cut using the "tsukibori" (thrust-carving) technique, with "ito-ire" (silk-web) reinforcement

19th-20th centuryJapanese

Artists' Tools

Copper plate: Portrait of Dr. Wolbach

Arthur William Heintzelman, 20th century

20th centuryAmerican

Artists' Tools

Brush Stand in the Form of a Screen with Decoration on the Front of Two Lions Playing with a Brocade Ball Below and a Scholar and Attendants in a Landscape Above, the Back with a Scholar Standing on a Dragon's Head in a Landscape

Unknown Artist, probably 16th century

Enameled porcelain: assembled porcelain elements, some with relief decoration, and with additional decoration painted in overglaze polychrome enamels

16th centuryChinese

Artists' Tools

Brush Rest in the Form of Three Mountain Peaks with Decoration of Striding Dragons

Unknown Artist, late 16th-early 17th century

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels

16th-17th centuryChinese

Artists' Tools

Rectangular Ink Palette with Decoration of Dragons Pursuing Flaming Jewels

Unknown Artist, Wanli period, 1573-1620

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double rectangle on the base

16th-17th centuryChinese

Artists' Tools

Cylindrical Brush Handle with Decoration of a Dragon Pursuing a Flaming Jewel above Mountains and Waves

Unknown Artist, Wanli period, 1573-1620

16th-17th centuryChinese