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Boar

Date1971
Object number2000.176
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Collection Highlights: 1945 to the Present, September 12, 1996 - June 1, 1997. Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Around the Bend and Over the Edge: Seattle Ceramics 1964-1976, February 11 – May 6, 2012. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture, June 21 - September 2, 2024.
Credit LineGift of Anne Gerber
Dimensions13 × 44 × 30 in. (33 × 111.8 × 76.2 cm)
MediumCeramic
Boar
Chinese
Object number: 33.37
Chinese
early 6th century
Object number: 37.13
Vishnu as the boar Varaha
Indian
ca. 11th century
Object number: 69.43
Photo: Paul Macapia
late 14th to early 15th century
Object number: 70.2
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
1884
Object number: 93.56
Waterdropper modelled as a boar
Chinese
19th century
Object number: 92.47.120
Waterdropper modelled as a boar
Japanese
19th century
Object number: 92.47.142
Waterdropper modelled as a boar
Japanese
19th century
Object number: 92.47.227
Vishnu as Boar Avatar
Indian
18th century
Object number: 62.108
Amulet in the shape of boar's head and shoulders
Sumerian
4th millennium B.C.
Object number: 41.111
Netsuke modelled as a sleeping boar
Japanese
Object number: 33.463