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Insect on a Banana Leaf
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Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mrs. William L. Payson in memory of her husband William L. Payson (Class of 1923 Harvard Law School 1926) and of her son William L. Payson Jr. (Class of 1954)
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Fan of paper and silk, girl and vines, designed by George Barbier, Paris, France, 1911. Decorated fan of printed and hand-coloured paper and painted silk. The sticks and guards are of bone with painted decoration of grapes and butterflies. The rivet and c
Fan of paper and silk, girl and vines, designed by George Barbier, Paris, France, 1911. Decorated fan of printed and hand-coloured paper and painted silk. The sticks and guards are of bone with painted decoration of grapes and butterflies. The rivet and c
Fan of paper and silk, girl and vines, designed by George Barbier, Paris, France, 1911. Decorated fan of printed and hand-coloured paper and painted silk. The sticks and guards are...
Table Plateau
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BORDSPLATY Consisting of a bottom plate (plateau) with a mirror glass, two flower bowls with artificial bouquets, two fruit bowls with glass bowls, six confectionery bowls with gla...
Fan of painted vellum with pierced and gilded ivory sticks and guard. The leaf depicts three vignettes framed with floral festoons and garlands showing figures amongst ruins, classical-style buildings, and in forests. The leaf is further accented with gol
Fan of painted vellum with pierced and gilded ivory sticks and guard. The leaf depicts three vignettes framed with floral festoons and garlands showing figures amongst ruins, classical-style buildings, and in forests. The leaf is further accented with gol
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Folding fan, leaf of vellum painted in watercolours with carved mother-of-pearl sticks, leaf design after Jean-Baptiste Pillement, France, 1760-70. Fan leaf of vellum painted in watercolours. Three vignettes make up the design, showing Chinese fishermen,
Folding fan, leaf of vellum painted in watercolours with carved mother-of-pearl sticks, leaf design after Jean-Baptiste Pillement, France, 1760-70. Fan leaf of vellum painted in watercolours. Three vignettes make up the design, showing Chinese fishermen,
Folding fan, leaf of vellum painted in watercolours with carved mother-of-pearl sticks, leaf design after Jean-Baptiste Pillement, France, 1760-70. Fan leaf of vellum painted in wa...
Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Time Script
Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Time Script
This large, horizontally oriented, rectangular album leaf is inscribed with twenty columns of text, the columns with varying numbers of characters and thus of varying lengths. The ...
S. k. double protection cage repeater
S. k. double protection cage repeater
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Girija Kaimal, Banana Leaf canvas (2025)
Girija Kaimal, Banana Leaf canvas (2025)
Paint pens on banana leaf, 8 × 12 in...
May God give you glory in both worlds
May God give you glory in both worlds
This is an example of a rarefied and extremely painstaking genre of calligraphy in which a dried leaf was used for the support. In this case, the leaf appears to be from a horse ch...