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Shaped as a woman; holes for bowl and stem identify it as a pipe. She is seated with knees drawn up, hands bound behind her back, and long hair fastened to her hands, pulling her head back. Ribs, trachea, and collarbone are clearly delineated. An otter is carved on her stomach.
A flat rectangular fan with two lobes at the top. Main colour is green mottled with yellow. Frame is of many very fine ribs of split bamboo (?) with paper on each side which is lacquered. Straight, black-painted, wooden handle is split and spread to allow insertion of the fan. Fan is painted orange around the handle. Around the orange area, there is a black paper cut on each side of the fan which is also lacquered. Fan is edged in dark green.
A closing fan with twenty-three inner ribs of split bamboo with a painted cloud-like design on the base of each side and two bamboo parent ribs also with a painted design set into a dark rosewood piece into which the metal rivet has been placed. Fan face is rice paper with small pastoral scene painted at the centre top with seven writing characters on the left side of the face. Attached to the metal rivet, there are two light blue-green tassels, 25 cm. long, including the cord.
Bottle of red-bodied ? stoneware, on round base expanding slightly to sides of bottle, which are seven-facetted. Sides contract slightly to neck, which is narrower and round, then flares to round concave rim. Sides are translucent, covered with grey-white glaze, uneven and pitted, with heavy layer of red-brown clay adhering around base.
Rectangular cotton batik with blue pattern on white ground. Two patterns, one a third of textile. Pattern near one end has wide band of blue diamonds and triangles with flowers in them, bordered on two sides by maple leaf and cock motifs. The other pattern is of leaves and vines and smaller flowers on vines. Entire textile is bordered with vine motif.
Batik sampler. Textile has 24 named floral and geometric designs in three horizontal rows of eight. Most designs are blocked out in diagonal sections, some in squares and a few others in alternating rows of elements, Many are geometric floral decorations. The designs are divided by black borders with a repeated brown and off-white triangle motif at the edges and a black and grown four-pointed flower-like motif in an off-white square.
Figure representing a person on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of the figure which is made of cloth lightly padded to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Hands are made of paper. Face is made of white silk. Figure's left hand is holding a closed green, and yellow fan. Wearing a black straight-sided hat with a flat crown, and a wide brim, a very light blue silk robe, a dark blue silk sleeveless coat tied under the arms with red thread, leggings, white socks, and low black shoes. Two pieces of white flannel hemmed in light red-pink silk thread with a loop of the same thread at the top are sewn to the paper backing.
Figure representing a person on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of the figure which is made of cloth lightly padded to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Hands are made of paper. Face is made of white silk. Figure's left hand is holding a closed red, and green fan. Wearing a black straight-sided hat with a flat crown, and a wide brim, a light purple silk robe, a dark blue silk sleeveless coat tied under the arms with red thread, leggings, white socks, and low black shoes. Two pieces of white flannel hemmed in light green silk thread with a loop of the same thread at the top are sewn to the paper backing.
Distorted brown sphere (part a) open at one end with a cylindrical light wood stopper (part b). Sphere (part a) has a geometric design in horizontal bands that are incised around the upper half of the outer surface. The inside is hollowed out and filled with white powdered lime? The stopper (part b) has an incised band around the upper edge. It is 9 centimetres in diameter and 2.7 centimetres long.
Bracelet made of wood with seven grooves carved around bracelet creating eight ridges with triangular notches cut into three of the ridges showing natural unstained wood.