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Irises by Watanabe Shikō, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Irises

Watanabe Shikō (d. 1755)

1700s · Painting, One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on gilded paper

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Irises by Watanabe Shikō, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Irises

Watanabe Shikō (d. 1755)

early-mid 1700s · Painting, pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on gilded paper

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Irises by Watanabe Shikō, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Irises

Watanabe Shikō (d. 1755)

1700s · Painting, One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on gilded paper

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Otani Tokuji I as the Retainer Sodesuke in "Flowering Irises: A Soga Vendetta of the Bunroku Era" by Tōshūsai Sharaku, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Otani Tokuji I as the Retainer Sodesuke in "Flowering Irises: A Soga Vendetta of the Bunroku Era"

Tōshūsai Sharaku

1794 · Print, color woodblock print

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White and Purple Irises by Katsushika Hokusai, The Cleveland Museum of Art

White and Purple Irises

Katsushika Hokusai (d. 1849)

early 1800s · Print, color woodblock print

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Pediment with the Face of Glory (Kirti-mukha) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Pediment with the Face of Glory (Kirti-mukha)

Unrecorded maker

c. 1000s · Sculpture, sandstone

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Portrait Head of a Noble or Official by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait Head of a Noble or Official

Unrecorded maker

175–200 CE · Sculpture, marble

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Black-Figure Eye Cup: Iris and Satyrs (A, B); Gorgoneion (I) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Black-Figure Eye Cup: Iris and Satyrs (A, B); Gorgoneion (I)

Unrecorded maker

c. 520–510 BCE · Ceramic, ceramic

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Birds and Flowers by Kano Mitsunobu, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Birds and Flowers

Kano Mitsunobu (d. 1608)

late 1500s · Painting, One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper

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Mask by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Mask

Unrecorded maker

1–550 CE · Sculpture, stone

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Mask by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Mask

Unrecorded maker

1–550 CE · Ceramic, ceramic, slip

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