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Dish2988/2

Large dish with sloping sides and a slanting foot ring, is almost solely decorated in turquoise blue enamel combined with outlines in black on a thick, opaque white glaze. It is painted in the centre with a large roundel enclosing an Arabic inscription written with the characters forming a spiral, and encircled by double lines. The gently curving cavetto has eight smaller roundels enclosing Arabic inscriptions, alternating with individual words. Continuous Arabic inscriptions surround the large central roundel and the rim. The underside is glazed but undecorated.

Culture
Indonesian ?
Material
clay, glaze and paint
Made in
Zhangzhou, Fujian, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jar2894/6

Tall cylindrical jar. Neck is concave with a flaring rim, and a smooth slope to the sharp shoulder. The body is made of 9 long, somewhat irregular facets. A thick glaze covers the jar inside and out in a mix of dark yellow, red and black. The base is unglazed.

Culture
Canadian ?
Material
clay and glaze
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jar2894/2 a-b

Tall cylindrical jar with lid. The jar’s body is slightly concave, flaring at bottom as well as top to where a wide mouth contains an inner rim to hold the lid (part b). The base angles inward to a smaller round foot. The body texture is of small encircling lines and is glazed black and orange-red. The interior of the pot is white with a small amount of orange. The lid sits down inside the pot’s rim and is round and shallow with a tall, thin round handle in the middle. The lid is orange on bottom and top outer edge, with a black centre and handle. The top of the handle is also orange. The base is stamped with an oblong circle with an ‘I’ shape in the centre.

Culture
Canadian ?
Material
clay and glaze
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jar2894/3

Small rounded jar, vertically oblong. A small mouth is encircled by a tall and slightly flaring neck that narrows toward the shoulder and contains a spout on one side. The pot sits atop a small round foot. The body is glazed a uniform shiny black, while the neck is a flat brown, the mouth orange. The foot is unglazed. A maker’s mark is carved into the foot--possibly a flower or looped initials.

Culture
Canadian
Material
clay and glaze
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jar2894/7

Dark brown cylindrical jar with an interior round opening passing from top through bottom. The piece is possibly a candle holder. At top there is a small mouth with a thick rim, surrounded by a large round plate. Beneath this is a thick round neck, leading to a slightly wider midsection with several irregular squared facets. Below is a long, concave base with a single carved hole close to the bottom. The piece is glazed a uniform dark brown, with an unglazed bottom.

Culture
Canadian ?
Material
clay and glaze
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jar2894/5

Small multi-coloured square jar, with rounded corners and large indents in each side. The shoulder is sharp and angles toward a straight sided, round neck. The round foot angles slightly inward. The glaze is brown with some areas of specked greenish blue and specks of black. The interior is speckled white and black. The base is unglazed.

Culture
Canadian ?
Material
clay and glaze
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jar2894/4

Cylindrical jar, rounded, that inclines slightly toward the top. The shoulder is high and lightly angled toward the thin neck. Atop the neck is a wide round rim. The jar has a round base, only slightly smaller than the bottom of the jar. The jar is glazed a matte mottled grey brown, with a pattern of wavy and crossing lines carved horizontally around the body. The shoulder and neck are a matte brown, and the rim is a very shiny dark brown. The base is unglazed, and a dark orange colour. An artist signature is carved into the foot.

Culture
Canadian
Material
clay and glaze
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lidded Pot2010-37/61

The paint is red and black. The glaze is clear.

Culture
Cree
Material
clay, paint and glaze
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Vase2942/2

Bulbous cream-coloured vase with flared neck, decorated in dark blue and purple designs. One side depicts a shield, in which the bottom is half blue and half cream and the top half features three blue fleurs-de-lis. The other side has an abstract design encircled by a purple vine-like line with blue circles. The vase’s neck and base are also decorated with rings of vine-like patterns.

Culture
“Central & Eastern Europe” ?
Material
clay, paint and glaze
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pedestal Dish2942/1

Short pedestal dish with white base. The imagery on the dish is divided into four quadrants decorated with geometric blue and white designs. Sections opposite one-another have the same pattern. Two have cross-hatched wavy and straight lines and the other two have a diamond-like pattern with crosses at each of the diamonds’ points. At the centre is a green circle with the initials VHS and two star-like designs in orange. The dish is encircled by a thick blue rim.

Culture
“Central & Eastern Europe” ?
Material
clay, paint and glaze
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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