The Savage Face

Les plus belles œuvres des artisans japonais.

Boîte d'écriture -  Dare ga sode makie suzuribako 誰が袖蒔絵硯箱 - Writing Box with Screen, Robe Rack, and Shell-Matching Game Set Bois laqué avec or, argent takamaki-e 高蒔絵 , hiramaki-e 平蒔絵 , togidashi maki-e 研出蒔絵 , laque rouge sur fond noir - Période Meiji jidai 明治時代 (1868-1912) - Longueur : 18,3 cm  largeur 16 cm & hauteur 3 cm.

Censer, Medieval Art

Medium: Copper-gilt, champlevé enamel

Rogers Fund, 1910 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Dance Wand

Date: 1st–2nd century

Geography: Peru

Culture: Nasca

Medium: Gold

Compared to the northern Peruvian coast, where large quantities of gold objects were found in lavish elite burials of the Moche period, contemporary southern coast tombs have yielded rare and modest gold finds. Among the few southern ornaments are objects with thick rigid stems at the bottom, which suggests they were held, pehaps in ritual dances. They may also have been fastened in the turbanlike headdresses of important individuals.

Study for Possessed Actor (An actor being taken by an onryō while performing in an historical play), 2018