The Collection at the BMA

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Corn Maiden

Stool (do-tshom), Baga people, Guinea, African, wood, polychrome

Stool (do-tshom)

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Large polychrome jar with openwork bisque fired panels depicting cranes amidst clouds, painted designs in underglaze-blue of winged horse, a ky lan, a tiger-like creature with a Chinese coin, lotus and lotus panels

Large Wide-Mouthed Jar with Pierced Panels of Cranes and Clouds and Painted Peony, Lotus, Qilin and Cloud Motifs in Red, Green and Blue

Highly detailed, carefully delineated panoramic view of Mount Etna viewed from the ruins of the ancient Greek theatre of Taormina, with the crumbling walls of the theatre visible on the far right.

View of Mount Aetna

Red rug and gun

Untitled

Vase

Carved stone mask with deep oval eyes, arched brows, broad nose, deeply carved, slightly open mouth. Ear flanges pierced.

Mask

  • Teotihuacan culture, Pre-Columbian
  • stone
A large tomb tile with pierced impressed cross hatch designs with rows of mounted and standing archers, fish and cranes

Tomb Tile

Portrait of the van der Graeff Family, Jan Mijtens, oil on canvas

Portrait of the van der Graeff Family

A well-dressed, older black couple sits facing the camera on a burgundy couch. On the white wall immediately behind them hangs a framed ancestral photograph. A coffee table in the foreground bears an arrangement of unframed family photographs and a vase of cut flowers.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton, Mobile, Alabama, 1956

The Madonna holds the Christ Child in her arms. The Child holds her veil in one hand and in the other, a goldfinch, a symbol of the Passion. The Madonna and Child are flanked by two saints on either side: a bishop saint and Saint John on the left and Saint Michael and an unidentified saint on the right.

Madonna and Christ Child with a Bishop Saint, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Michael and an Unidentified Saint

Pack camel from a procession of tomb figures including musicians and pack animals. Set includes two pack camels and figures on horseback including three sogdian hunters, male and female polo players, two eunuchs, female musician with lute, female musician with drum, two female musicians with flute, and one female musician with a stringed instrument.

Pack Camel, from a Tomb Figure Procession