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Bouquets and Flowerpots

BOUQUETS AND FLOWERPOTS

Lilies

LILIES

Lotus Flowers

LOTUS FLOWERS

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ROSES

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From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Gontchunagon Masafusa,1041-1111:Three men in the foreground have come to admire the cherry blossoms; other visitors climb the steep path;two women fetch water.
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From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Gontchunagon Masafusa,10...

Rubayat of Omar Khayyam: The quatrains of Omar Kayyam were a collection of verses representing a cultured form of poetry strictly correlated to mystical literature as well as to Islam's religious tradition. Kayyam was a Persian mathematiian and astronomer as well as a poet. His Rubayat was adapted and published in English by Edward Fitzgerald, with illuminations by William Morris. ID:Add.37832 f 11v-12
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Rubayat of Omar Khayyam: The quatrains of Omar Kayyam were a collection of verse...

Hanging canopy (tengai), Japanese, (Kamakura period, 14th century?). This tengai has a lotus flower at the centre surrounded by rings of floral and scroll designs. A canopy or tengai hangs from the ceiling of Japanese Buddhist temples above the images of Buddhas and bodhisattvas. It originated in India as a sunshade used by the nobility and appears as such in early Indian Buddhist images, although it also suggests the foliage of a tree, beneath which persons in authority sat to speak in public. In Japan, the tengai are usually made of painted wood on a metal frame and are often elaborately carved. JA, 1967.2-20.1
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Hanging canopy (tengai), Japanese, (Kamakura period, 14th century?). This tengai...

Sugawara no Michizane in Chinese dress, Muromachi period, Japan, late 15th century. Holding a small branch of plum blossom, the badge of a Chinese scholar-gentleman. His Chinese appearance may be a reference to the legend that he studied Zen in China after his death. One of his poems is inscribed at the top of the painting. A cultural figure of the Heian period (794 -1185), he is still widely regarded in Japan as the patron of scholarship. He was a scholar of Chinese and also a politician who rose to be Minister of the Right, one of the highest ranks in the government of the time. After his death in exile there were several disasters in the capital of Kyoto which people believed were caused by his angry spirit. He was therefore raised to the rank of a Shintô deity (renamed Karai Tenjin). In the Muromachi period (1333-1568) there was a revival of interest in kambun (Chinese-style writing) and Michizane's reputation was re-established as the greatest Japanese poet who had written in the Chinese language.Creator: Kitagawa Utamaro JA, JP 1 (1913.5-1.038)
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Sugawara no Michizane in Chinese dress, Muromachi period, Japan, late 15th centu...

Birds and flowers, Edo period, Japan, 1791. A white parrot perched on a blossoming branch. The parrot is not native to Japan, but it was imported from as early as the ninth century, when the birds were presented to the imperial court. Parrots remained rare even during the Edo period (1600-1868), but featured at entertainment stalls in several cities. The white parrot was already a popular theme for paintings, but the artist Sessai may well have observed one in real life at one of these stalls. Although Sessai has here followed the thematic tradition of kachôga (bird-and-flower painting), and used conventional monochrome brushwork on the tree, he has adopted a sharply empirical style for the parrot. JA, JP ADD607 (1979.11-12.01)
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Birds and flowers, Edo period, Japan, 1791. A white parrot perched on a blossomi...

Celadon tea bowl from Korea, Koryo dynasty, early 12th century. The lotus, on the incised design on the interior of this bowl, is a Buddhist symbol of purity, a reminder of Buddhism's strong influence on the development of celadons in the Koryo dynasty (AD 918-1392). Tea drinking became a popular activity during the late Unified Silla dynasty (AD 668-935) and early Koryo dynasty, due to the influence of Son Buddhism, which spread from Buddhist monks to the population in general. Son Buddhism strongly emphasized meditation through tea drinking. OA, 1911.6-7.29
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Celadon tea bowl from Korea, Koryo dynasty, early 12th century. The lotus, on th...

The Annunciation. (Life of the Virgin, 8). Around 1503. Woodcut, 296 x 210mm. (monogrammed)
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The Annunciation. (Life of the Virgin, 8). Around 1503. Woodcut, 296 x 210mm....

Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 33-02-02/65. Woodcut. Upper part of the middle gateway: the gateway of Honour and Might. Reduced in size. From the heavy garland of the laurels, from which cranes are picking at berries, hangs a jewel, which is composed of a casket and a winged woman with a crown.
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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 3...

Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 33-02-02/65. Woodcut. Part of the centre gateway in its original size.
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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 3...

Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 33-02-02/65. Woodcut. Pedestral of the right hand middle column.
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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 3...

Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 33-02-02/65. Woodcut. Base of the right hand middle column. Cranes with shells, vine leaves with pea pods bursting, sirens (symbolic of the vice of lust, which the Emperor resisted, when he gave the prize of honour), a wreath of lilies of the valley. Above is plainly visible the beginning of another block, cut by a different hand.
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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 3...

Self-Portrait with Monkeys, 1943. The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of the 20th Century Mexican Art and The Vergel Foundation.
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Self-Portrait with Monkeys, 1943. The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection o...