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2018.14a,b - Tile
Pair of Syrian, Damascus large square underglaze-painted tiles in polychrome colours of cobalt blue, sage green, turquoise, black, white and aubergine, depicting calligraphic Arabic script enclosed within a cusped cartouche and within horizontal borders to top and bottom. The tiles are mounted together. Arts, including ceramics, flourished in 16th century Damascus, which was one of the most prosperous centers of the Ottoman Empire. These tiles...
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2018.17.1 - Vessel
Small textured bowl with decorative slight incised marks along rim, a single string of shallow incised marks around the neck, and black ombre effect in upper portion of the pot. Frank Ettawageshik (Naakwehgeshik) is a traditional storyteller and Odawa political figure, also recognized as a master artist in Woodland Indian pottery. This pot was fashioned by hand, not a wheel, using clay dug and prepared by the artist, and using a shape and inc...
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2018.17.2 - Vessel
Ceramic bowl with small peaked rim, decorative incised line design band around neck, smooth body, and black ombre effect in upper portion of the pot. Frank Ettawageshik (Naakwehgeshik) is a traditional storyteller and Odawa political figure, also recognized as a master artist in Woodland Indian pottery. This pot was fashioned by hand, not a wheel, using clay dug and prepared by the artist, and using a shape and incising decoration that dates i...
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2018.18.1 - Painting
Mixed media painting on paper. Noted on a card found with painting, "7 Hohe Market, Vienna, by Oskar Laske." Handwritten on back, "old Vienna baroque square." An architect by training, Laske started painting around 1904. He initially focused on architectural views, but his work became dominated by city scenes, landscapes, and animal paintings. His lively watercolors often detailed his trips throughout Europe, and often center around human in...
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2018.18.2 - Painting
Full length portrait of a woman in white classical style gown; rown upswept hair with 3 hairbands; wears white gown, criss cross bands bodice front, clasps each shoulder; thonged sandals. Working near New York City allowed Charles Noel Flagg to become a leading portrait painter. His commissions from celebrities, politicians, and wealthy socialites provided a good income. This untitled work is one of Flagg’s finest and largest paintings. I...
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2018.22.2 - Vase
Double spouted vase, tan with black ombre, burnished bulbous body with three bands of inscised leaf-like patterns. Born in 1921, Cherokee Beloved Woman Amanda Swimmer taught herself to form and fire pottery after discovering a deposit of clay near her Western North Carolina home. At age thirty-six, she began work at the Oconaluftee Indian Village, a "living museum" replica of an eighteenth century Cherokee community founded by former Universit...
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2018.23 - Sconce
Chinese for Danish market. Chinese export enamel candle sconce on copper in a cartouche form. The brass candle arm is missing and originally would’ve fit into the mouth of the lion mask at the bottom of the sconce. Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period, mid-18th century, c. 1740s. Executed in a brightly colored "famille rose" palette of pinks, blues, and greens, the candle sconce is decorated with chrysanthemum and peonies, foliage, animals, a double...
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2018.24a,b - Boot
Pair of handmade Tibetan women's boots in black, red, green felt, embroidered leaf designs in shades of blues, pinks, and greens with small gold metalic thread knots. This is a pair of unused Tibetan boots known as sombha. Boots have been a traditional aspect of Tibetan dress for centuries and were worn to provide protection and warmth. Male and female Tibetans generally wear boots, which have a large variety of styles and names. Sombha bo...
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2018.3.1 - Print
Disparate de Bestia (Animal Folly) from Goya's Los Disparates (Follies) series. Drawn and etched 1815-17; published posthumously c. 1877. Probably third state of the print. The Los Disparates series was also called Proverbios (Proverbs) in the first edition, and is a series of prints created by Goya between 1815 and 1823. The series revisits Goya's themes of the follies of human behaviour, and take on a dramatic quality with their dark backgr...
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2018.4.1 - Print
"Papaver Spinosum," hand-colored copperplate engraving, Plate 288 from Hortus Eystettensis (The Garden of Eichstätt), by Basil (Basilius) Besler, engraved by Wolfgang Kilian et al. Nuremberg, first edition, 1613. Basil Besler was an apothecary and botanist who managed the gardens of Bishop Johann Conrad in Eichstatt, Germany. The Bishop's remarkable garden was one of the most extensive in Europe, containing a huge variety of European shrubs an...
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2018.5.1 - Print
"Iris Florentina," hand-colored copperplate engraving, Plate 414 from "Herbarium Blackwellianum, Selectum sive Collectio Stirpium or Sammlung der Gewache," by Christopher Jacob Trew, revised German edition, Nuremberg, 1757-1773. After Elizabeth Blackwell's "A Curious Herbal," London, originally published 1737-1739. The engraver Nikolaus Freidrich Eisenberger produced 170 plates for the revised and expanded version of Elizabeth Blackwell's "A ...
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2018.5.2 - Print
"Faba maior,"(Fava bean), hand-colored copperplate engraving, Plate 19 from "Herbarium Blackwellianum, Selectum sive Collectio Stirpium or Sammlung der Gewache," by Christopher Jacob Trew, revised German edition, Nuremberg, 1757-1773. After Elizabeth Blackwell's "A Curious Herbal," London, originally published 1737-1739. The engraver Nikolaus Freidrich Eisenberger produced 170 plates for the revised and expanded version of Elizabeth Blackwell...
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2018.5.3 - Print
"Hippoglossum Bislingua," hand-colored copperplate engraving, Plate 128 from "Herbarium Blackwellianum, Selectum sive Collectio Stirpium or Sammlung der Gewache," by Christopher Jacob Trew, revised German edition, Nuremberg, 1757-1773. After Elizabeth Blackwell's "A Curious Herbal," London, originally published 1737-1739. The engraver Nikolaus Freidrich Eisenberger produced 170 plates for the revised and expanded version of Elizabeth Blackwel...
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2018.5.4 - Print
"Myrobalanus Emblica," hand-colored copperplate engraving, Plate 400 from "Herbarium Blackwellianum, Selectum sive Collectio Stirpium or Sammlung der Gewache," by Christopher Jacob Trew, revised German edition, Nuremberg, 1757-1773. After Elizabeth Blackwell's "A Curious Herbal," London, originally published 1737-1739. The engraver Nikolaus Freidrich Eisenberger produced 170 plates for the revised and expanded version of Elizabeth Blackwell's...
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2018.5.5 - Print
"Aster Atticus Seu Inguinalis," hand-colored copperplate engraving, Plate 109 from "Herbarium Blackwellianum, Selectum sive Collectio Stirpium or Sammlung der Gewache," by Christopher Jacob Trew, revised German edition, Nuremberg, 1757-1773. After Elizabeth Blackwell's "A Curious Herbal," London, originally published 1737-1739. The engraver Nikolaus Freidrich Eisenberger produced 170 plates for the revised and expanded version of Elizabeth Bl...
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2018.5.6 - Print
"Matricaria," hand-colored copperplate engraving, Plate 192 from "Herbarium Blackwellianum, Selectum sive Collectio Stirpium or Sammlung der Gewache," by Christopher Jacob Trew, revised German edition, Nuremberg, 1757-1773. After Elizabeth Blackwell's "A Curious Herbal," London, originally published 1737-1739. The engraver Nikolaus Freidrich Eisenberger produced 170 plates for the revised and expanded version of Elizabeth Blackwell's "A Curio...
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2018.5.7 - Print
"Satyrium mas," hand-colored copperplate engraving, Plate 53 from from "Herbarium Blackwellianum, Selectum sive Collectio Stirpium or Sammlung der Gewache," by Christopher Jacob Trew, revised German edition, Nuremberg, 1757-1773. After Elizabeth Blackwell's "A Curious Herbal," London, originally published 1737-1739. The engraver Nikolaus Freidrich Eisenberger produced 170 plates for the revised and expanded version of Elizabeth Blackwell's "A...
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2018.5.8 - Print
"Tormentilla," hand-colored copperplate engraving, Plate 445 from from "Herbarium Blackwellianum, Selectum sive Collectio Stirpium or Sammlung der Gewache," by Christopher Jacob Trew, revised German edition, Nuremberg, 1757-1773. After Elizabeth Blackwell's "A Curious Herbal," London, originally published 1737-1739. The engraver Nikolaus Freidrich Eisenberger produced 170 plates for the revised and expanded version of Elizabeth Blackwell's "A...
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2018.5.9 - Print
Laurie and Whittle's New Moral and Entertaining Game of The Mansion of Happiness. Game invented by George Fox. This edition published by Richard Holmes Laurie in London, England in 1851. Laurie and Whittle's "The Mansion of Happiness," originally published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle in 1800, is one of a burgeoning category of games of "social betterment" popularized in Europe and America around that time. The game has 67 compartments r...
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2018.7.1 - Rug
Rectangular prayer rug, red background with beige, orange, blue, green colors throughout, a central image of two floral patterned columns with a vase and chandelier at center, surrounded by three borders of medallions and floral patterns, edged in dark blue. Made in Tabriz, Iran. The floral columns on the left and right on this prayer rug form a niche at the top from which hangs a lamp. This niche represents the mihrab in Islamic mosques that ...
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