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Black silk damask with interwoven paulownia pattern; plum blossoms embroidered in solver, gold, and gunmetal gray metallic threads, and persimmon, brown, and black silk threads.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Black Nagoya-style obi in sateen weave (shusu) with embroidered plum blossom designs
1930 – 1950
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2005/1.331
Tea bowl with underglaze floral design.
Kawai Kanjirô
Tea bowl with handpainted floral design
1924 – 1934
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Spurr
2003/2.13
Black silk damask with some interwoved black lacquered threads; pine-needle design embroidery in gold- and copper-colored metallic threads
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Black Nagoya-style obi with embroidered pine needle designs in gold- and copper-colored metallic threads
1960
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2005/1.330
Olive colored silk with wax-resist dyed (rokutsuzome) floral patterns in white, rose, green, and blue; floral patterns further embellished with embroidery originally in white thread, dyed at the same time as floral patterns.  Embroidery thread sometimes shot with some strands of gold.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Olive Nagoya-style obi with wax-resist dyed floral medallions in white, rose, green, and blue
1930 – 1940
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2005/1.339

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
1930 – 1940
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2005/1.406

Paul Delvaux
Les Amours du poète (The Loves of the Poet)
1935 – 1945
Gift of the Lannan Foundation in Honor of the Pelham Family
1997/1.73
Beige dupioni (tamaito) silk with hand-painted landscape designs depicted streams and bridges in wooded mountains.  Ground fabric possible dyed with tea.
Sensh
Beige Nagoya-style obi with landscapes painted by Takizawa Kôyû
1940 – 1960
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2005/1.332
Black plain-weave silk (shusu) with woven designs in turquoise, fuschia, white, apricot, red, pink, and gold- and silver- coated paper (kinran, ginran).  Lined with black satin.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Black Nagoya -style obi with woven design of decorative spools (itomaki)
1930 – 1950
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2005/1.343
square incense container with lid.  Blue copper, and lead underglaze painting is used on each of the four sides and lid under translucent glaze.
Kawai Kanjirô
Square covered incense container with handpainted flowers and lid
1938 – 1941
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Spurr
2003/2.11A&B
Lidded stoneware box with hexagonal base and sides.  Decorated with blue, copper, and lead underglaze painting under translucent glaze.
Kawai Kanjirô
Hexagonal box with handpainted floral garland and lid
1936 – 1946
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Spurr
2003/2.10A&B
Abstract painting dominated by brushstrokes in vivid yellows on white background with light blues in center and left side of canvas, large area of light brown in upper right and lower left, and brushstrokes in dark red in left center of canvas. Signed “hans hofmann” in lower right.
Hans Hofmann
Untitled
1957 – 1967
Gift of the Lannan Foundation in Honor of the Pelham Family
1997/1.125
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