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This long-necked bottle has a matte glaze of tans, brown, and orange. It also has a raised pattern that at first looks like a craquelure pattern.
Markham Art Pottery
Vase
1900 – 1910
Gift of Harriet Dyer Adams, In memory of Alice Norton and Charles Christopher Adams
1978/1.168

Clément Massier
Vase
1900 – 1910
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.118
Drawing featuring a small child seated with its hands in its lap stares out at the viewer amid a forest of birch trees.
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Kind zwischen Bäumen (Child Among Trees)
1900 – 1910
Gift of Herbert Barrows
2000/2.176

Josef Hoffmann
Pitcher
1900 – 1910
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Muschenheim
1962/2.3
This vase consists of two fluted elements: the container which has a slightly flaring lip, and a foot that is also fluted. The surfaces of the vase have a hand-worked character and are not smoothly finished
Josef Hoffmann
Fluted Vase
1900 – 1910
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Muschenheim
1962/2.4
Lacquered wooden box with inlaid mother-of-pearl in double-dragon design. The heads of each dragon stretch diagonally inward from opposite corners of the box, with wide eyes and open mouths. Their bodies curve in and out of the top plane of the box, creating an opposing effect with symmetrical balance. The dragons reach forward towards a flaming orb in the center of the box, called a cintamani, or Buddhist wish-granting jewel. Among the dragons are swirling cloud designs made of inlaid nacre and copper wire.<br /> <br /> The lid of the box completely covers the box from top to bottom. The box was used to store clothes. The design of the lid shows a pair of dragons arranged around <em>cintāmaṇi</em> at the center. The bottom edge of the lid is decorated with a row of dots. The dragons are rendered with mother-of-pearl. <em>Cintāmaṇi</em> in the middle of the lid is rendered with tortoiseshell. The row of dots was rendered alternately with mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell. The outlines of the dragons&rsquo;
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Box with Double-Dragon Design
1895 – 1905
Gift of Linda Dresner Levy and Ed Levy, Jr.
2007/2.8

Markham Art Pottery
Vase
1900 – 1910
Gift of Harriet Dyer Adams, In memory of Alice Norton and Charles Christopher Adams
1978/1.169

Louis Comfort Tiffany
Vase
1896 – 1910
University purchase 1930, transferred to the Museum of Art, 1972/2.214
1972/2.214
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