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Ladle
Gift of Ellen Johnston Laing in memory of her mother
1985/1.93

Ralph Gibson (American (North American))
Window Washer, Paris, from "Artifacts"
1975
Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Sobel
1985/2.95.3
A petite cup with an abstract floral design in blue and white covering the outside of the cup and inside rim. The outside rim is gold and slightly everted. It has a large foot with blue stripes.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Blue-and-white tea cup with abstract floral design (1 of 5)
1400 – 1599
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.519
This black-gray earthenware, tall-stemmed pedestal vessel has a bowstring pattern around the body and a wide flaring rim on a narrow base. There is significant loss to the rim.  
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Pedestal of Stemmed Bowl
3100 BCE – 2000 BCE
Museum Purchase
1940.409
'Ueberlauf' on rim running design, in center a blossom; paste: buff, fine, medium-hard; glaze: glossy, fine crackle top glaze, over cream slip on interior and exterior except bottom part. Fired upside down (tripod on interior) and upright. Colors are green, yellow, aubergine, green-white. Slightly restored.
Iranian (Iranian)
Plate with tri-colored glaze
10th century
Museum Purchase
1957/1.51
"Produced in the Wan Li era (1573-1619), the Chinese prototypes are more tightly controlled and more elaborate that the museum's Persian version. In place of nine rim panels in the Far Eastern piece our bowl has four, more widely dispersed over the rim area and enclosing loosely executed foliate forms. The elaborate scene usually appearing in the center of such bowls here is reduced to a simple bouqet, now in part reconstruction." 
Iranian (Iranian)
Plate with radial design
Museum Purchase
1957/1.84
A petite cup with an abstract floral design in blue and white covering the outside of the cup and inside rim. The outside rim is gold and slightly everted. It has a large foot with blue stripes.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Blue-and-white tea cup with abstract floral design (1 of 5)
1400 – 1599
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.517
A basket woven in the form of a box with the middle protruding out to form a circular disk. On the top of the box the weaving forms a diamond pattern. There are several strands of fiber attached to the disk portion of the basket. There is a piece of wood attached to the end of the fiber. 
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Basket
1945 – 1955
Museum Purchase
1985/2.5

British
Sugar Shaker
Gift of Ellen Johnston Laing in memory of her mother
1985/1.95

Stirring paddle with head
20th century
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1983/1.156

Marka (Marka)
Pestle, of Mortar and Pestle
1915 – 1925
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Ancient and Medieval Archaeology, Cummer Collection
1983/1.353.2

Dorothy Dunitz
Plate
20th century
Gift of The Artisans, Ann Arbor
1972/1.160
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