Our parade of tiger images, posted on Instagram and RED, stroll by for one last encore to wish you a happy and healthy Year of the Tiger.

Our readers selected as your favorite tiger this South Vietnamese Lai Thiu ware Jar with lid (below) in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.

But by far, readers best-loved New Year's image was not a tiger at all but this spectacular contemporary Japanese Gray (Nezumi)-Shino Type Round Platter by Wakao Toshisada from Joan B Mirviss LTD. The plum blossoms remind us that spring is just around the corner!

Top photo, clockwise from top left:
Anonymous (19th century), Pair of Screens Depicting an Elephant and Tiger, ink, mineral pigments and gold on silk, San Antonio Museum of Art
Unknown (Educational Series), ca. 1886, Educational Pictorial Instructions: Animals, no. 8, Tiger, Japanese print, Scholten Japanese Art
Tiger, Fourth Rank Military Official, 1850-1870, Chinese silk embroidery on silk, Denver Art Museum
Chinese Carved Soapstone Figure of a Lohan, ca. 1700, Ralph M. Chait Galleries
Pair of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Plates, Early Kangxi period, ca. late 17th century, Ralph M. Chait Galleries

Second photo, clockwise from top left:
Yoshimura Kokei, Dragon and Tiger, 1836, ink color and gold on silk,
Joan B Mirviss LTD
Kishi Chikudō (1826-1897), Sitting Tiger, ink and color on paper,
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Mountain God with Tiger and Attendants, 1874, Korean ink and color on silk,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Goddess Devi and Her Tiger, ca. 1820, Indian opaque watercolor on paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Seated Tiger, Liao dynasty (907-1125), China slip-coated and glazed stoneware,
Art Institute of Chicago