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  • Tags: Orange

Button, Political

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Political button against US Involvement in Vietnam War.

Thin metal disk, back painted orange, with lip stamped toward back. Front of disk covered by paper with printed design. Design on yellow background, in orange letters - VIETNAM/For…

Doll, George Glenn

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Doll of George Glenn. Cowboy, 1870, African American male, tan cowboy hat, green sweater, and orange gun hoister.

Starting in the 1960s, I. Roberta Bell, a Chicago school teacher, created a set of 26 dolls to help teach African American history to…

Vase

Wheel-turned; swirled mixed clay of orange-red, tan, brown, blue & cream. Interior has blue & translucent yellow glaze. Upturned base, globular body expanding to rounded shoulders; short, wide neck; expanding on flaring rim. "Niloak" stamped in art…

Bowl

Wheel-turned; swirled, mixed clay of orange red, cream, brown, light green, and blue colors. Interior has blue-speckled almost opaque white glaze. Flat base with 3 long feet equidistant on edge; lower body expanding and concave outline, then convex…

Snuffbox

Wheel-turned; swirled, mixed clay in blue, orange red, brown, tan, and cream colors. Unglazed interior. Broad, flat, slightly upturned base, round, squat body with short rim and wide neck. Flat lid with rounded knob in center. "Niloak" stamped in art…

Holder, Match

Wheel-turned; swirled, mixed clay of blue, brown, orange red, tan, and cream colors. Interior has speckled blue and translucent white glaze to near rim. Flat base with outer ring, broader than body; cylindrical body; rim with rounded lip. "Niloak"…

Vase

Molded; all surfaces except for exterior base glazed; purplish-red glaze on all areas but edges (e.g. lip, basal edge, handle edges), covered with orange over glaze. Short, wide pedestal base, round body to short (?) neck/rim; rounded lip; 2 opposed…

Bowl

Wheel-turned; swirled bichrome clay of light orange and brown colors. Interior has brown glaze to lip. Flat base with slight ridge on outer edge, convex, expanding body to the rounded shoulder; no neck; inverted rim with rounded lip. No makers'…

Album, Woodblock Prints

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Album bound in heavy brown paper with a wooden spine. The binding exhibits a star-motif.

The album holds 48 pages of woodblock prints. Most of the prints are attributed to one of the late great print masters of the Edo period (1603-1868), Utagawa…