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- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.123
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.139
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.132
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.125
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.117
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.134
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.127
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.119
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.136
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.129
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.121
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.138
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.131
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.124
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Portrait of a Emperor(?) and Two Attendants
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1850-1950
- Accession Number
- 1951/2.28
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.133
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.126
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.118
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.135
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.128
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.120
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.137
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Yao Ritual Scroll
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- mid 19th century–mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.130
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on cotton
- relevance
- rank 6.19255
- Title
- Saga brocade obi with woven designs of poetry-inscribed fans
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Light mauve silk with appliqued Saga brocade patches of gold fans with calligraphic poetry on them. The calligraphy has been brushed on paper with gold flecks (sunago). which is the weft of the Saga brocade; brown silk thread is the warp. Partially backed with a different silk, a taupe with deliberately knotted weft; reamainder backed with plain-weave taupe silk.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1940s-1950s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.335
- Medium and Support
- silk with appliquéd Saga brocade patches
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Ogun Ax (àáké or edùn Ogun)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria
- Physical Description
- Carved ax handle is comprised of a kneeling male figure with rounded knob on top of his head, into which narrow end of triangular iron ax blade is embedded.
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1925-1975
- Accession Number
- 2006/2.73
- Medium and Support
- wood, iron
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Mask (vaca bruto, dugn'be type)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Bijogo Peoples Guinea Bissau
- Physical Description
- Naturalistic cow’s head of carved from wood with eyes cut from the bottoms of glass bottles. Natural cow horns are attached. Head is predominantly black with white triangle on forehead, red pigment surrounding eyes, red in interior of ears, white chin, and white dots on cheeks and in red ground around eyes. Horns are white, tipped in black; a fiber cord runs through its nostrils and around back of head.
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1925-1975
- Accession Number
- 1984/1.273
- Medium and Support
- wood, glass, paint, metal, animal horns
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Bizen ware water jar with lid (mizusashi)
- Artist
- Kaneshige Tôyô
- Physical Description
- This is an unglazed stoneware bizen jar fired in a wood-burning kiln.
- It has a hard, smooth surface with decorative incisions near the top of the jar. The lower portion has effect of color gradation of reds and browns. The lid seems to dip into the jar, and has a know handle. The entire piece is not perfectly formed, but has an organic aesthetic.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1896-1967
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1950-1963
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.72
- Medium and Support
- stoneware, unglazed
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Red brocade fukuro obi with woven pattern of colorful medallions against a field of wavy gold stripes (tatewaku)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- This is made of a thick brocade of red, gold and silver. Medallion patterns and wavy stripes are woven through the entirety of the fabric, rather than halfway, as is common in less intricate obi. Medallion motifs of tortoise shells, flowers, and bamboo leaves are spaced among the golden waves across the fabric.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1950s-1960s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.344
- Medium and Support
- red silk with woven and embroidered design and gold wrapped thread
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Raku Style Gray Tea Bowl
- Artist
- Sen Sôshu X
- Physical Description
- Deep, thick-walled gray teabowl with intentionally unever lip and body texture that brings out a range of gray tones in the glaze.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1913 - 1999
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.71
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with nezumi-iro (mouse-gray) glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Ivory maru obi with woven pattern of gold paulownia (kiri) flowers
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Maru obi with ivory colored sateen weave silk (shusu) with large woven paulownia designs in gold-leafed paper (kinran)
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1975
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.328
- Medium and Support
- ivory colored sateen weave silk with large woven designs in gold-leafed paper
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Japan's Thousand Island Mt. Huzi
- Artist
- Karol Koslowski
- Artist Life Dates
- (District of Stopnica, Poland, 1885 - 1969)
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960-1965
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.118
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Dark indigo Shibori haori with lining depicting children at play
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- This haori demponstrates a variety of geometric patterns of repeating white shapes against a dark indigo ground. It also has an inner silk lining.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.348
- Medium and Support
- white silk tie-dyed dark indigo
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Shigaraki Ware Flower Vase
- Artist
- Takahashi Rakusai III
- Physical Description
- The vase uses Shigaraki clay and the wood-firing process. The deformities and imperfections are intentional, and in Iga style. It has a lopsided lip edge at the top, with a deep indentation circling the vase just below it. The texture of this piece is splotchy and ridged, and the colors are earth tones, ranging from tans to dark, forest greens.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1898-1976
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960-1963
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.77
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with natural ash glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire: One of Six Designs for André Rouveyer's "Apollinaire" (weak impression not cut for the book)
- Artist
- Guillaume Appolonaire
- Physical Description
- A line drawing of a man looking to the left. His lips are pursed, wearing a collared shirt.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1880-1918
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.570
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on cream colored wove paper
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Black Nagoya-style obi with embroidered pine needle designs in gold- and copper-colored metallic threads
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Black silk damask with some interwoved black lacquered threads; pine-needle design embroidery in gold- and copper-colored metallic threads
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.330
- Medium and Support
- black silk damask with mettalic thread embroidery
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Hagi ware flower vase
- Artist
- Miwa Jusetsu
- Physical Description
- It is a vertically long, rectangular shaped vase. The body is slightly tilted; its four corners are shaved from the top to the bottom. The clay color is orange-yellow; the body is glazed with porous, milky white ash glaze. The bottom edge of the body and the bottom are unglazed. It has no foot.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1910
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.65
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with feldspar and ash glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Black saga brocade zôri (shoes)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Black silk damask with interwoven black lacquered threads that create a shiny effect in the light. Marked "Shizuko" on the bottom.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.370A&B
- Medium and Support
- black saga nishiki brocade uppers with rubber soles
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Shino ware flask-shaped bottle with bamboo design
- Artist
- Takuo Katô
- Physical Description
- Flask-shaped bottle with short, narrow neck. Bamboo leaves design in brown color is applied on one shoulder toward the bottom. The porous surface of white glaze shows the orange color of the clay. The spout is narrow and has an elevated rim. The foot is short and glazed.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1917-2005
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1958
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.69
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with white feldspathic glaze and underglaze painting in iron
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Pons, original lithograph included in the May 1961 edition of "XXe siècle" no.16
- Artist
- César
- Physical Description
- Varying rows of lines in pinks, blues, reds and browns with a white background.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1921-1998
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.573
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on heavy woven paper
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Black silk gauze fukuro obi with large woven floral 'hosoge' medallions
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Black silk leno weave (gauze) fukuro obi; floral medallion patterns woven in lacquered red, gold-coated paper (kinran). and a synthetic turquoise metal-coated paper.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.334
- Medium and Support
- silk leno weave (gauze) with patterns woven in coated paper
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Oba’s Beaded Crown (adénlá)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria
- Physical Description
- Beaded, veil fringed, canonical crown; seven long beaded tassles dangle from the bottom rim of the crown; entire surface area is embroidered with multi-colored seed beads; three tiers of colorful faces surround the perimeter; a series of three dimensional birds perch on top of the crown; the largest bird sits on tip and is removable.
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1925-1975
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.306
- Medium and Support
- glass beads, cotton fabric, raffia palm
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Brocade obijime (obi cord) with a tassel
- Artist
- Dômyô
- Physical Description
- Kumihimo (braided) silk brocade with silver metallic threads.
- Artist Life Dates
- kumihimo atelier, Kyoto, Japan
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.365
- Medium and Support
- braided silk cord with silver metallic threads
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
![Untitled [Ohne Titel] (1945) New Year Card for Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris; Asger Jorn](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.562/2013_2.562.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;med=1;resnum=43;size=50;sort=relevance;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=musart_cent;select1=phrase;q1=mid-20th+century){kind=link}
- Title
- Untitled [Ohne Titel] (1945) New Year Card for Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
- Artist
- Asger Jorn
- Physical Description
- New Years card with attached print that depicts an abstract figure with one large eye and long hair.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1914-1973
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1945
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.562
- Medium and Support
- etching on heavy wove paper
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Black Nagoya-style obi with appliquéd pathces woven in varied designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Black plain-weave satin with appliqued patches in abstract geometric shapes, with woven floral, geometric, and landscape designs.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1930s-1950s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.341
- Medium and Support
- black satin with appliqued woven patches
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Soneto Burlesco. A Licito... from the "Góngora: vight poëmes" by Luis de Góngora y Argote
- Artist
- Pablo Picasso
- Physical Description
- Text of poem on left and two portraits of men on either side of text.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1881-1973
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.574
- Medium and Support
- aquatint on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Uchikake (Wedding Cloak)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- The apple-green fabric is pure silk brocade, woven in an overall pattern of maple leaves scattered on a flowing stream—an allusion to a famous classical poem. Lying on top of the brocade is a thick layer of embroidery, with plum blossoms in red silk, and pine branches and doves in dazzling metallic threads of gold, silver, and copper.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1920-1980
- Accession Number
- 1986/1.215
- Medium and Support
- silk brocade with gilt paper (kinran), embroidery and couched metallic threads
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Bizen ware vase
- Artist
- Kaneshige Tôyô
- Physical Description
- This is a tall, cylindrical vase, slightly bulged at the middle. There are multiple incised lines around the neck and the bottom. The middle part has several vertical incision marks. The bottom is flat. It has a brown body, unglazed, with grayish ash glaze marks.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1896-1967
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960
- Accession Number
- 1967/2.7
- Medium and Support
- stoneware
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Maru obi with woven designs of hexagonal medallions with phoenixes among floral scrolls
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Black pain-weave satin interwoven with silk threads in light purple, rust, coral, maize, chartreuse, red, white, and ultramarine, and metallic threads in three shades of gold. The hexagonal shapes are definied by a weft of gold-coated paper (kinran) in pale greenish gold; the gold threads used in the medallions are wrapped. Inside each medallion is a phoenix design among a floral scroll.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.345
- Medium and Support
- black silk interwoven with silk floss and gold-covered paper threads
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Untitled (Street Scene)
- Artist
- Jean Paul Slusser
- Physical Description
- This is a watercolor painting in a vertical format painted in bright colors of red, blue, yellow and green. In the foreground, there is a group of men working around the base of a tall pole from which hangs a large red flag or banner. Behind the men is a backdrop of red drapery and to the side, a wooden staircase. There are buildings in the background with yellowish brown walls and green roofs.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1886 -1981
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.539
- Medium and Support
- watercolor on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Bowl
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Century
- mid 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.119
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 5.01066