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| Anonymous Makers Jar with Lid ca. 1127-1279 glazed earthenware Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Anonymous Makers Jar with Lid 19th century glass Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Anonymous Makers Hexagonal Vase 18th century glass Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Anonymous Makers Bi 3000 BC ritual funerary disc of nephrite San Diego Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous Makers Pair of Bowls 18th century nephrite Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island |
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| Anonymous Makers Teapot 18th century carved laquer Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Anonymous Makers Bowl 19th century porcelain export-ware Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island |
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| Anonymous Makers Cachepot early 17th century porcelain (with European ormolu mounts, early 18th century) Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Makers Censer ca. 1625-75 porcelain (blanc de Chine) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Anonymous Makers Ewer 16th-17th century porcelain Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Anonymous Makers Ewer ca. 1575 porcelain (with English silver mounts, ca. 1600) Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Makers Tea Bowl ca. 1775-1800 porcelain (famille rose export-ware) Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island |
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| Anonymous Makers Vase 18th century porcelain (gourd shape, decorated with bats) Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Anonymous Makers Vase ca. 1750-1800 porcelain Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Anonymous Makers Crystal Ball on Lotus-form Stand 18th-19th century rock crystal and gilt-bronze Harvard Art Museums |
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| Anonymous Makers Snuff Bottle 19th century tourmaline Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
Field Flowers
What are you saying? That you want
eternal life? Are your thoughts really
as compelling as all that? Certainly
you don't look at us, don't listen to us,
on your skin
stain of sun, dust
of yellow buttercups: I'm talking
to you, you staring through
bars of high grass shaking
your little rattle – O
the soul! the soul! Is it enough
only to look inward? Contempt
for humanity is one thing, but why
disdain the expansive
field, your gaze rising over the clear heads
of the wild buttercups into what? Your poor
idea of heaven: absence
of change. Better than earth? How
would you know, who are neither
here nor there, standing in our midst?
– Louise Glück (1992)