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Vase:  ceremonial water vessel (suibyo)
Vase: ceremonial water vessel (suibyo)

Vase: ceremonial water vessel (suibyo)

Date1185-1333
Object number69.4
Credit LineNasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection
Dimensions11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm) Diam.: 5 1/16 in. Girth: 25 5/8 in.
MediumBronze with gilt
Miniature chest on six legs
Japanese
17th century
Object number: 65.43
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Japanese
18th century
Object number: 60.84
Ceremonial set of carpenter's tools
Japanese
Object number: 34.80
Round covered box
Japanese
ca. 1950
Object number: 66.102
Sutra case with Tokugawa shogunate family crests
Japanese
18th century
Object number: 60.81
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Chinese
early 8th century
Object number: 42.5
Chinese
7th - 8th century
Object number: 50.97
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Chinese
4th-3rd century BCE
Object number: 46.95
Photo: Susan A. Cole
Chinese
late 8th - early 9th century
Object number: 45.61.1
Covered bowl in the shape of a five-petaled flower
Chinese
late 8th to early 9th century
Object number: 45.61.2
Holy Water Basin (a swamba)
ca. 8th century - 9th century
Object number: 54.53