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A small square box with lid. Gold lacquered flowers appear on all sides, as well as small crests on one side and on the top of the lid. Part of a bridal trousseau.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Container with lid
1800 – 1850
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1955/1.162A&B
A rounded bowl with small stand underneath and two handles on either side. Gold covers the side of the handles and runs along the rim of the bowl. Wrapping around the outside of the bowl are gold floral patterns. Part of a bridal trousseau.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Deep washbowl
1800 – 1850
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1955/1.168
This print is made of colorful forms and words in bright letters and bold fonts, arranged on a white background. Block letters display words in a mixed-up format, some upside down, some on their sides. On left side there is a section with smaller writing in yellowish ink on grey.<br /><br /> Text:<br /> To the Lovings, new hope i love you much (most beautiful darling) more than anyone on earth and i like you better than everything in the sky--sunlight and singing welcome your coming although winter may be everywhere with such a silence and such a darkness no one can quite begin to guess (except my life) the true time of the year-- and if what calls itself a world should have the luck to hear singing (or glimpse such sunlight as will leap higher than high through gayer than gayest someone's heart at your each nearness) everyone certainly would (my most beautiful darling) believe in nothing but love. cummings
Corita (American (North American))
New Hope
1966
Gift of Robert Cugno and Robert Logan
2010/1.205
A small cylindrial box with a rounded top. Gold lacquered floral patterns wrap around the entire surface, and a small geometric crest appears in gold on the top of the box. Part of a bridal trousseau.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Container with lid
1800 – 1850
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1955/1.166A&B
The long rectangular box is covered with an intricate floral pattern of gold on a black background in lacquer. Two house crests (one a geometric representation of a well and the other a chrysanthemum flower) appear in the design. Part of a bridal trousseau.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Shaver container
1800 – 1850
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1955/1.160A-C
A small, lacquered box with a rounded top. Gold flowers wrap around the sides of the box and there is a small gold crest on the top. Part of a bridal trousseau.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Container with lid
1800 – 1850
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1955/1.161A&B
This etching depicts a vast and lively gathering of figures around a large banquet table in the foreground accompanied by other crowds of figures throughout the composition. The scene takes place in an outdoor setting surrounded by classical architecture that recedes perspectivally in the distance.
Giovanni Battista Vanni
Christ at the Marriage at Cana
1637
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2012/2.214
Wooden columnar figure heavily decorated with beads. The top of the figure has a cluster of thread, each with 2 or 3 beads attached. The neck of the figure is covered with white seed beads. Clusters of cowrie shells form the limbs of the figure. The body of the figure is covered with strands of red beads. One side of the figure has a blue and yellow chevron patterned beadwork with fringe.
Fertility Figure
1890 – 1920
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
2000/2.104
A small cylinder with rounded top and several grooves going up the height of the object. Golden lacquered floral patterns cover the surface with one crysanthemum crest on the top center of the lid and a geometric crest near the bottom. This is the larger of two containers. Part of a bridal trousseau.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Stacked Cylindrical Container
1800 – 1850
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1955/1.163A-C
Small cylindrical container lacquered dark brown with gold floral patterns wraping around the object on all sides. There is also a chrysanthemum crest in gold on the rounded top of the container and a geometric crest near the bottom. This is the smaller of two containers. Part of a bridal trousseau.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Stacked Cylindrical container
1800 – 1850
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1955/1.164A-C

Kurt Seligmann (American (North American))
The Marriage, Plate 5 from 'The Myth of Oedipus'
1944
Museum purchase made possible by the Alfred E. Pernt Memorial Fund, in honor of Dr. of Technical Sciences Max H.J. Pernt and his wife Anna Pernt (née Mueller)
1986/2.97.5
A short, round container lacquered with gold floral patterns wrapping around the entire container. A small crysanthemum crest and geometric crests, also in gold, appear on the rounded top of the container. Part of a bridal trousseau.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Round box with lid
1800 – 1850
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1955/1.165
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