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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
Inverted cone-shaped vessel of brown, yellow and green glass
François-Emile Décorchemont
Vase
1904 – 1971
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.228
Glass bowl or cup-like vessel with green body, gold striated rim and clear glass handles.
Two-handled cup
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.230
The circular, smaller white porcelain plate has a design of gourds, flowers, vines and leaves around the rim. The gourds are outlined with blue underglaze and colored with yellow overglaze. Blue underglaze and transparent green overglaze are used for the leaves. The flowers and vines are drawn with red. The red enamel is worn off from some of the tendrils, a characteristic of 18th century Nabeshima. The reverse side has four clustered jewel or treasure motifs with four bows and streamers repeated three times. On the shallow foot, bold lines are drawn in a row like a comb. The design on the back is all drawn with blue underglaze. (Referencce: Becker, Sister Johanna. “A Group of Nabeshima Porcelain.")
Artist Unknown, Nabeshima ware, Japan
Plate with gourd and vine design (one of five with 1964/1.100 and 102-104)
1700 – 1732
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1964/1.101

American (American (North American))
Bowl, oblong with two handles
1830 – 1880
Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Thomas M. Spaulding
1967/2.15
Gold spoon with thin handle that widens at the end with egg-and-dart-like motif along edges
Tiffany & Company
Spoon
1900 – 1967
Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Thomas M. Spaulding
1967/2.17
Gold spoon with thin handle that widens at the end with a decorative element at the tip
Tiffany & Company
Spoon
1906 – 1956
Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Thomas M. Spaulding
1967/2.18
Autumn flowers are painted in colored lacquer on plates of gold leaf. The quiet, natural plant motifs stand out against the glittering square of gold.
Shibata Zeshin
Plate with Floral Design, one of five
1879 – 1890
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1968/2.56
Autumn flowers are painted in colored lacquer on plates of gold leaf. The quiet, natural plant motifs stand out against the glittering square of gold.
Shibata Zeshin
Plate with Floral Design, one of five
1879 – 1890
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1968/2.60
irridescent orange, yellow and blue teardrop-shaped vessel with vertical ribbing
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Vase
1895 – 1905
University purchase 1930, transferred to the Museum of Art, 1972/2.212
1972/2.212
This small bottle consists of orange and green iridescent glass with a brown pointed leaf or blade design. The bottle has been pinched in at the sides.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Vase
1892 – 1896
University purchase 1930, transferred to the Museum of Art, 1972/2.216
1972/2.216
Multiple layser of translucent glass in brown, green, and tan creates a rich texture of glass that resembles tortoise shell. The vessel has a very simple profile.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Vase
1892 – 1896
University purchase 1930, transferred to the Museum of Art, 1972/2.219
1972/2.219
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