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The relief sculpture of a Child-god is a particularly fine example of a ‘sculptor’s model’ or ‘votive object,’ a piece appearing to be a fragment but actually a fully realized object in itself. It is probably Harpokrates, Horus the Child, often found…

Seneca Ray Stoddard was born at Wilton, Saratoga County, New York, May 13, 1844, and died at his home Glens Falls April 26, 1917. He had done more than any other person, probably, towards making the Adirondack region known to the outside world and…

The masks of the Bapende peoples can be classified into two styles, the western, or Kwilu and the eastern, or Kasai style. This mask, or more properly badge, reflects the Kwilu style. It is a smaller version of the crested mbuya initiation mask and…

Abbott has lit the French author and Nobel Prize winner (1947) Andre Gide (1869-1951) so as to highlight the writer's head, face and hands emerging from deep shadow. His look, directly out at the viewer, is equally penetrating and pensive and speaks…

The white ground of the bowl is decorated with a dark blue bowstring on the rim. Just below the rim on the exterior wall is a bunch of pine needles, first stenciled in red and then sprayed green, signifying endurance and high principle. Below the…

The exterior of the bowl, at the top of the rim, features a double red bowstring framing a red geometric design broken by a stylized green flower. Beneath the bottom bowstring, four bold outlined Chinese characters read: "Be industrious and thrifty…

Five hand-brushed black characters on the upper part of the outer body form a slogan: "The Revolutionary committee is good" {in Chinese characters - geming weiyuan hui hao]. Each character is framed by a decal or stamp of a purple ring and three…

A blue chain bowstring surrounds the top outer rim of the bowl. Under the bowstring there are two blue line drawings flanked by inscriptions: on one side of the bowl, a ship sails through stylized waves; on the other side there is a book in the…

The white bowl is decorated with a blue bowstring on the rim. A green geometric pattern frames the red inscription stenciled on the exterior. The inscription reads: "Do not live off past gains. Make new contributions" [in Chinese characters - Buyao…

The bowl has a stenciled decoration of junks sailing on the sea with great waves and a red sun on the horizon. On the reverse is an inscription: "Sailing on the sea depends on the helmsman" [in red Chinese characters - dahai hangxing kao duoshou].