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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
- 1983/2.130
- 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
- 1983/2.122
- Medium and Support
- handscroll, 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
- 1983/2.123
- 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
- Dark indigo shibori haori
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- White silk hand tie-dyed with dark indigo, in two techniques: makiage shibori and kanako shibori. Cream or pale peach-colored plain weave silk lining. Cord silver and white braided silk (kumihimo)
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.347
- Medium and Support
- white silk tie dyed dark indigo
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Khaki-colored koma-rinzu kimono with overall pattern of small silver flowers
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Silk crepe (repp weave) interwoven with synthetic silver threads. Lining is plain weave silk: white above and gray below.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1920s - 1940s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.383
- Medium and Support
- silk crepe interwoven with synthetic silver threads
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Mauve and periwinkle crested haori with wax-resist designs of floral clusters and embroidery in metallic threads
- Artist
- Minagawa Gekka
- Physical Description
- Overall wax-resist dyed pattern of crackled pale mauve on periwinkle ground, decorated with wax-resist dyed patterns of foral clusters in red, yellow, purple and white, and embroidery in gold, silver, and red metallic threads. White plain weave silk lining with wax-resist designs of fabric samples, predominantly red, blue, and gold. Silver and red red cords with tassles. Crest on the back of paired oak leaves (kashiwa) embroidered with gold couched threads and red and white bokashi silk thread.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1892-1987
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.350
- Medium and Support
- crepe silk with colorful wax resist design and metallic thread embroidery
- 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
- 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
- Red kimono with stenciled dot pattern and woven brocade patches
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- White silk with stenciled (katazone) hitta kanoko design in red, and woven brocade patches using paper strips coated in black and red lacquer and silver (ginran). Upper half of lining is red plain weave silk (momi); lower half is lime green silk damask (rinsu), woven in T-diaper pattern (suyagata).
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1930s-1940s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.375
- Medium and Support
- white silk with red stencil design and brocade patches
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Black silk michiyuki coat with flower and vine design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- This michiyuki is made from black velvet and features a subtle flower and vine design (peony karakusa scroll). The inside lining is gray silk. It has small buttons down the front.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960s-1970s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.400
- Medium and Support
- black velvet with gray silk lining
- 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
- Title
- Black jacquard woven haori with woven design of bird-and-flower motifs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Heavy black crepe silk with woven designs in lacquered rust-colored, silver, and gold metallic threads. Hand-painted design of Noh actors on light peach lining.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1970s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.354
- Medium and Support
- heavy black silk with woven designs in rust, silver and gold mettalic threads
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Lavender kimono with overall woven pattern of a Hannya shinkyo text
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Figured satin weave lavender silk with vertical Hannya shinko text.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1985
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.386
- Medium and Support
- silk with woven design of Chinese characters
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Crested kimono with elaborate floral wax resist designs (hageito, nandina, biwa, camelia, daffodils, omoto, plums, thistles) against crackled pink-on-taupe ground, with embroidery in metallic threads
- Artist
- Minagawa Gekka
- Physical Description
- This is a pink silk crepe kimono with wax-resist patterns, hand-painted design and metallic threads embroidery. The kimono is in full length and has elongated sleeves. The fabric is dyed with pink, leaving the family crest under the collar and the floral design part white. The red scale pattern is added using wax-resist technique. Then the design of multiple kinds of plants is hand-painted with white, red, yellow, and pale and blue green colors. There are mix of fall and winter flowers and trees: nandin on the left sleeve, plum, chrysanthemums, thistles, amaranths, camellias and narcissus on the front and back, makino (Chloranthus glaber, with red berries) and more camellias on the right sleeve. Embroidery is added in various metallic threads around the contours of flowers and leaves.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1892-1987
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.358
- Medium and Support
- crepe silk with colorful wax resist design and metallic thread embroidery
- 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
- 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
- Formal five-crested kimono with painted, gilt, and embroidered design of pine islands among waves
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Black silk crepe with yuzen (paste-resist hand-painted), surihaku (silt) and embroidered designs. Five crests done in reserve (appears as white on black). Lining is plain-weave white satin for the entire length of the kimono. Collar, upper torso, and sleeves have a double lining.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1970s - early 1990s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.377
- Medium and Support
- black silk crepe with painted, gilt and embroidered designs
- 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;resnum=39;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
- 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
- Black crested haori with yûzen painted origami crane design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Black crepe silk with origame crane designs hand-painted by paste-resist yûzen techinique, in colors and gold pigment. Lining is pink silk damask with woven pattern of truncated floral medallions. Double oak leaf crest (kashiwa) is embroidered with bokashi-dyed blue and white thread.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1940s-1960s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.356
- Medium and Support
- black crepe silk with painted design
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Black kimono with the character kotobuki in several scripts, in deep red
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Silk crepe dyed black with areas of wax-resist in the shape of kotobuki characters. These characters were brushed with red, which matches the inner red lining of momi plain weave silk above with persimmon silk crepe below.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1940s-1950s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.390
- Medium and Support
- black silk crepe with red paint
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Formal crested lavender kimono with woven brocade and embroidered island and cloud designs
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Lavender silk crepe damask (rinsu) with woven mottled cloud-like pattern; designs in surihaku over yûzen: brocade and silk metallic thread embroidery. Lining is plain weave white silk above, second inner lining of white satin damask with woven design of chysanthemums on sayagata ground below. Lined with kimono fabric.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.379
- Medium and Support
- lavender silk crepe with woven brocade and silk and mettalic thread embroidery
- 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
- 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
- Saga nishiki style brocade reversible fukuro obi; one side with woven gold medallions on lime green; the other with woven gold medallions on white
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Reversible brocade obi with medallion patterns in gold-leafed paper (kinran) and pale yellow silk floss.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1940s-1960s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.329
- Medium and Support
- brocade with patterns executed in gold-leafed paper and silk floss
- relevance
- rank 5.01066
- Title
- Obi-jime (obi cord)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- Cord made of thin woven silver metallic thread.
- Century
- mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1960s-1980s
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.366
- Medium and Support
- woven silver mettalic thread
- relevance
- rank 5.01066