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A large ceramic bowl with a basin with white porcelain body. Exterior glazed in lustrous opaque medium brown. Interior surfaces are white with bright blue underglaze painting of floral designs and foliage with a pattern of overlapping circles that have star-like centres at the centre bottom.
Untanned leather cutout, translucent with red and black pattern painted on one side supported by split bamboo rod which is fastened with four cord ties. Patterned with a human-like moustached figure holding a coiled serpent on its left arm (as used) and a pyramid shaped object in its raised right hand. Figure is in profile, but two round eyes are frontal. Nose is hooked with a bird-like beak and mouth shows one prominent fang. Two feathered wings extend behind shoulders. Clothed with high headdress, trousers and body and limb jewelry. Shown in motion with extended legs. An object with two flower-like wheels lies between feet, the wheel pattern is repeated at waist level. Behind the figure the fanged serpent with extruded tongue is patterned with flecked scales and a row of red hearts. The wings, headdress and other prominent features are perforated by closely spaced round, oblong and triangular holes.
Flower pot shape container. Rim is painted dark brown with 8 red and brown fish incised on the band just below the rim. Eight triangles project downwards from under the fish. Underside is inscribed with name, "Klee Wyck."
Wooden northern style canoe with a Haida design painted on the outside. The canoe is painted black with Northwest Coast stylized designs on the ends in red, white and black. Depicted on each side is a Killer whale with its head and dorsal fin on the prow and the body and tailfins on the stern. There is a red border around the upper edges. The ends sweep upwards. The prow is grooved to hold a harpoon or mast and has a vertical fin to cut through waves. The interior is also painted black and has three rectangular bench seats.
A large cermaic bowl with a basin white porcelain body. Exterior glazed in lustrous opaque medium brown. Interior surfaces are white with bright blue underglaze painting of floral designs and foliage, with a central radiating floral design at the bottom.
A low circular ceramic dish. Form flares gently to rim with light grey porcelaneous body. Foot rim unglazed. Base glazed. Interior painted in underglaze blue in casual floral and grass motifs. Plain exterior. Thick light blue-white glaze pools heavily over painting in places.
A large ceramic bowl with a basin white porcelain body. Exterior glazed in lustrous opaque medium brown. Interior surfaces are white with bright blue underglaze painting of floral designs and foliage with the same pattern on the centre bottom.
A ceramic jar that has a broad base with a recessed foot. The body of the jar swells gradually, first in a concave, then in a convex curve reaching a maximum dimension at the shoulder, and incurves sharply to a small mouth. The coarse thick stoneware body is covered in white slip and decorated with underglaze in iron black with two similar motifs placed directly opposite one another, of which these consist of two "x" forms juxtaposed to form a central diamond shape, containing a sketchy floral form. The triangles created by other arms of the x''s also enclose minimal leaf forms. Covered over all by a thin transparent glaze showing a medium fine crackle.
Octagonal, with angles smoothed where planes meet; spout pinched out of rim; handle set at right angle to spout; white porcelain body glazed blue-white except at foot rim. Painted underglaze with dark grey-blue landforms from which spring floral motifs; enamelled overglaze with motif outlines in iron red and gold which is worn and dull; centred beneath spout, a circle enclosing the initial s, slightly off vertical; spout gold with red outline. Paper label reads "Marchant, London."
Clay bottle consisting of a globular body with flat base, narrow neck with flared rim connected to shoulder by flat handle. Light brown surface with painted decoration in various states of preservation. Top of rim decorated with concentric circles; handle has zigzag pattern; shoulder decorated with tongues. Above and below figured scene are borders of horizontal lines; bottom of base in concentric circles. Figured scene consists of a male siren with spread wings in center, facing right, with anatomical details. Body primarily dark brown with red-brown areas on wings, throat, and breast. Leading edge of wings decorated with circles of red-brown. To right of siren is a water fowl, facing left with details. To left is a possible third figure. Between figures and in empty spaces are traces of dots and rosettes.