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A round three-tiered wooden box with black, red, and gold lacquer. It has geometric and animal designs.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Round Three-Tiered Box
Gift of Ellen and Richard Laing
2006/2.37A-D

Taiwanese
Longevity Spirit Money, from Taiwan (2 prints)
20th century
Gift of Ellen and Richard Laing
2006/2.41.2A
This mirror box is decorated with lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlaid designs. Thelid of the box opens upwards, and has brass hinges and a closure in the sahpe of a flower. The lower drawer has a handle in the shape of a bat.<br /> <br /> This box has a mirror attached to the inside of its lid and was used by women. The box is decorated with hexagon and bamboo motifs by employing <em>kkeuneumjil</em> and <em>jureumjil</em> techniques. Hinges made of nickel are decorated with chiseled peonies on a ringmat ground. The corner brackets, or side wrappers, are in &ldquo;I&rdquo; shape. The single drawer has a handle in the shape of a bat, realistic to the extent of depicting antenna. Lacquer was heavily repainted on the base of the drawer. The frame of the mirror inside was decorated with fret-patterned band on left and right sides, and saw-tooth design on upper and lower sides. <p>[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 266]</p>
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Mirror Box
19th century
Gift of Ellen and Richard Laing
2006/2.61
Woodblock print with red floral design framing an inner square that contains six characters in the top and lower right, center, and left corners and a large character (&quot;longevity&quot;) in the middle with an image of two coins suspended from the wings of a stylized bat in the lower center. Swath of orange paint and imitation gold foil in the middle.
Taiwanese
Longevity spirit money from Taiwan
20th century
Gift of Ellen Johnston Laing
2008/1.171

British
The Veil of Darkness
1809
The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1970/2.115C

British
The Veil of Darkness
1809
The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1970/2.115B
Wooden block painted cinnabar red with a carved floral design framing an inner square that contains six characters in the top and lower right, center, and left corners and a large character in the middle (“longevity”) with an image of two coins suspended from the wings of a stylized bat in the lower center.<br />
Taiwanese
Block for Printing "Longevity" Spirit Money, from Taiwan
1967 – 1999
Gift of Ellen and Richard Laing
2006/2.41.1
This is a low pear wood storage chest, with three drawers and two doors. The butterfly and bat brass fittings for the hinges and drawer pulls add 'feminine' touches.
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Mouri jang (chest with 3 drawers and central double doors and butterfly brass fittings)
1833 – 1866
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.311

Germaine Richier
Composition
1904 – 1957
Museum Purchase
1957/2.20
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