Appert Frères - Carp Vase - Walters 47384 - Profile
Commodore Perry's arrival in Japan in 1854 opened the country's borders to Western commerce. Within a few years, Western designers and artists, inspired by imported Japanese objects, began to interpret nature f... More
Byzantine - Menorah Flask - Walters 47673
This hexagonal flask is decorated with a menorah, a palm tree, and geometric forms. Many similar flasks substitute crosses for the Jewish symbol, indicating that a single workshop served the needs of both Chris... More
Byzantine - Menorah Token - Walters 47654
This token displays an image of the menorah, the seven-branched candlestick used in Jewish temples. Made for private use, such tokens were at times inscribed with the name of the owner. In this period, the meno... More
Chinese - Bowl - Walters 47680
Anonymous (Chinese). 'Bowl,' 1735-1795. blue-green glass. Walters Art Museum (47.680): Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Brewster in memory of Edward L. Brewster, 1993.
Chinese - Bowl with Design of Flowering Peony - Walters 47679
Anonymous (Chinese). 'Bowl with Design of Flowering Peony,' 1735-1795. wheelcut and etched transparent amber glass. Walters Art Museum (47.679): Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Brewster in memory of Edward L. Brewster, 1993.
Chinese - Brushholder with Figures in a Garden - Walters 47698 - Profi...
Anonymous (Chinese). 'Brushholder with Figures in a Garden Setting,' 2nd half 18th century. opaque white glass with red overlay. Walters Art Museum (47.698): Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Brewster in memory of Edward ... More
Chinese - Cup with Designs of Dragons - Walters 47688
Anonymous (Chinese). 'Cup with Designs of Dragons,' 1st half 18th century. engraved clear glass. Walters Art Museum (47.688): Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Brewster in memory of Edward L. Brewster, 1993.
Chinese - Faceted Vase with Long Neck - Walters 47695
This piece imitates celadon. Public domain image of Chinese art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chinese - Fluted Vase - Walters 47724 - Profile
Anonymous (Chinese). 'Fluted Vase,' 1735-1795. blue glass. Walters Art Museum (47.724): Gift of James Ogden Stokes, 2001.
Chinese - Jar with Design of a Dragon - Walters 47691
Anonymous (Chinese). 'Jar with Design of a Dragon,' 18th century. transparent green glass, overlays in white, brown and red. Walters Art Museum (47.691): Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Brewster in memory of Edward L. B... More
Chinese - Pair of Lotiform Bowls - Walters 47718, 47719
Anonymous (Chinese). 'Lotiform Bowl,' 18th century. pale jade-green glass. Walters Art Museum (47.719): Gift of James Ogden Stokes, 2001.
Chinese - Snuff Bottle with a Horse in a Landscape - Walters 47304
Anonymous (Chinese). 'Snuff Bottle with a Horse in a Landscape,' 1775-1899. red and grayish overlay glass. Walters Art Museum (47.304): Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters.
Chinese - Tall-Necked Vase - Walters 47702
Anonymous (Chinese). 'Tall-Necked Vase,' 1735-1795. opaque pink glass. Walters Art Museum (47.702): Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Brewster in memory of Edward L. Brewster, 1993.
Chinese - Vase - Walters 47689
This vase is of streaked orange and yellow glass imitating realgar.
Chinese - Writer's Water Dish - Walters 47694
This water dish is in the form of an open flower.
Chinese - Writer's Water Dish - Walters 47696
This writer's water dish takes the form of an open lotus flower with insects around the rim.
Egyptian - "Malqata Kateriskos" Vessel - Walters 4732 - Profile
Although the manufacture of faience can be traced back to the predynastic period (the fourth millennium BCE), the production of true glass did not emerge in Egypt until the early 18th Dynasty, around 1500 BC. R... More
Egyptian - "Malqata Kateriskos" Vessel - Walters 4732
Although the manufacture of faience can be traced back to the predynastic period (the fourth millennium BCE), the production of true glass did not emerge in Egypt until the early 18th Dynasty, around 1500 BCE. ... More
Egyptian - Kohl Vase in the Shape of a Palm Column - Walters 4745 - Pr...
In ancient Egypt, vessels were formed by heating powdered glass in a furnace around a clay core. Once the glass had melted around the core, glassmakers trailed threads of molten glass around the vessel and comb... More
Egyptian - Vessel with Feather Pattern - Walters 4733
Glass became very popular in the New Kingdom and although glass-making was not discovered by the Egyptians, they soon learned how to make glass. Glass inlays and vessels, such as this one, were precious and a l... More
Emile Gallé - Vase with Cherry Tree Branches - Walters 47570
Inspired by the Chinese glass he had seen during a trip to Berlin, Emile Gallé began to work with opaque colored glass in 1884. Within four years, he developed a technique of working with cased (layered) glass ... More
Eugène Rousseau - Vase - Walters 47383
Rousseau was an innovative ceramist and glass designer who played a pivotal role in introducing Japanese motifs into French decorative arts. At the 1884 Paris Union Centrale exhibition, he first exhibited "crac... More
Eugène Rousseau and Appert Frères Vase 1878-1884 Walters Art Museum
Japanese textiles may have provided a source for the abstract designs on this clear glass vase. Rousseau was an innovative ceramist and glass designer who played a pivotal role in introducing Japanese motifs i... More
Eugène Rousseau and Appert Frères Vase shells 1878-1884 Walters Art Mu...
During the Edo period in Japan (1615-1868), the shell-matching game ("kai awase") was popular among women. It involved matching shells that had been painted with scenes from the 9th-century classical novel "The... More
Fredolin Kreischmann - Tall Vase with Lily Pads and Wild Carrots - Wal...
Tiffany was the foremost American exponent of the Art Nouveau movement, which rejected historical styles and called for a re-examination of vegetal and zoological motifs, particularly as seen in Japanese art. H... More
German - Covered Bowl in the Shape of a Duck - Walters 4175
This dazzling carved, polished and engraved covered bowl is amusingly shaped as a duck and would have been judged by contemporaries as a triumph of artifice in the imitation of nature in such an unlikely and di... More
German - Vase in the Shape of a Pilgrim Flask - Walters 47315
The colorful floral ornaments with fantastical creatures reflect the Italian Renaissance delight in the patterns with composite figures called "grotesques" because they were first seen in the decoration of an u... More
Hobbs, Brockunier & Co - Peach Blow Vase - Walters 47651
An 18th-century Chinese porcelain vase, reputed to be the finest of its kind, was sold for $18,000 at the auction of the Mary J. Morgan estate in 1886 in New York. So controversial was the price that William T.... More
Imperial Glassworks - Pair of Tazzas - Walters 47415, 47416 - Group
These kylix-shaped bowls are mounted with gilded bronze handles in the form of putti and are borne on feet decorated with acanthus leaves of the same metal. Gilded bronze beading has also been applied to the fl... More
Italian - Platter - Walters 47429
Anonymous (Italian). 'Platter,' ca. 1640-1660. glass. Walters Art Museum (47.429): Museum purchase with funds provided by the S. and A. P. Fund, 1970.
Tiffany Studios - Gold Vase - Walters 47403
Tiffany was the foremost American exponent of the Art Nouveau movement, which rejected historical styles and called for a re-examination of vegetal and zoological motifs, particularly as seen in Japanese art. H... More
Tiffany Studios - Green, Gold and White Miniature Vase - Walters 47432
Tiffany was the foremost American exponent of the Art Nouveau movement, which rejected historical styles and called for a re-examination of vegetal and zoological motifs, particularly as seen in Japanese art. H... More
Tiffany Studios - Miniature Vase with Silver Lid - Walters 47439
Tiffany was the foremost American exponent of the Art Nouveau movement, which rejected historical styles and called for a re-examination of vegetal and zoological motifs, particularly as seen in Japanese art. H... More
Tiffany Studios - Purple Miniature Vase - Walters 47436
Tiffany was the foremost American exponent of the Art Nouveau movement, which rejected historical styles and called for a re-examination of vegetal and zoological motifs, particularly as seen in Japanese art. H... More
Tiffany Studios - Vase - Walters 47665
The rich, deep red of this vase is one of the rarest colors found in Tiffany's Favrile glass.