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Drawing, Textile Design: Adria

Drawing, Textile Design: Adria
brush and gouache on paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts....
1988-62-320

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Print, Designs for Tableware, Plate XV of Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils.

Print, Designs for Tableware, Plate XV of Designs of Chinese Buildings,...
engraving on tan laid paper.
1984-75-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Lamp (France)
gilt bronze, onyx.
1979-56-1-a,b

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Drawing, Textile Design: Double-Fox

Drawing, Textile Design: Double-Fox
brush and gouache on paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts....
1988-62-902

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Print, Plate from Insignae ac plane novum opus crater graphicum (A New Artistic Work, Eminent and Clear, On the Vessel)

Print, Plate from Insignae ac plane novum opus crater graphicum (A New...
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. A. Murray Young.
1946-37-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Print, Plate 17, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Print, Plate 17, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop.
1957-162-25

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Print, Plate 30, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Print, Plate 30, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop.
1957-162-29

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Print, Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene

Print, Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1944-83-7-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Print, Plate 24, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Print, Plate 24, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)
etching on laid paper..
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1945-59-12

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

White earthenware plate with recessed center. There is a border around the plate in two shades of royal blue. The inside of the border looks like brush strokes. In the middle of the plate are a small grey oyster, a small bird with an orange head and back feathers; a large fish in pale pink and grey/blue laying upon a few dark green leaves.

Service Rousseau Plate
glazed and hand-painted earthenware.
Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
1990-41-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Silver hand knife in the form of a Japanese sword. The handle has a mottled surface and a raised floral bouquet. The end tip is boxed with a wavy line top and clasps. The flat curved blade has a slightly sloping tip while engraved with stylized floral leaves and a small bug at the tip.

Knife (USA)
cast and chased.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
1996-81-5

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Sterling knife. The blade is shaped like Japanese sword with fronds engraved on it. There is a clipped end where the point would be and below that the blade curves slightly downward. The handle has a mottled surface with two leaves on branches on top and bottom and a bird in the center.

Knife (USA)
cast and chased silver.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
1996-81-6

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

One of a pair of vertical drawings designed to be reprinted as a 2-panel mural wall covering. Although each panel can be appreciated individually, it should be noted that elements introduced on the left panel are completed on the right and vice versa. The entire mural depicts musicians playing instruments on one panel and children playing with kites on the other, set against exotic architecture. The types of instruments, and the style of the clothing, kites and architecture suggest the scene takes place in the East (and is reminiscent of miniature paintings and prints from that part of the world.) The elements are drawn in a playful, somewhat flat manner. The vanishing point is below the bottom page equidistant from the outer edge of each panel. The front plane of the building faces the viewer while both sides of the building are also visible (as diagonal planes heading backwards.) There are three areas of action: at street level, on a roof terrace/garden, and in the middle within and outside the building. In this panel, on the street level, a child is rolling two large hoops (almost chest high) one white, one dark, while looking back over his shoulder at a small black and white ball (similar to a soccer ball) perched on a railing. Hovering above and to the right of the hoops, a large fanciful, flying insect, like an abstract dragon-fly. Just below it another smaller hoop rolls near to the right edge of the scene. The boy appears to be in the shadow cast by a large building. There is a tall open portal in the front of the building through which an interior courtyard is visible. A child stands half hidden (one leg, one arm, half a head) in the doorway, holding. an 8-pointed star on a stick (a pinwheel.) Further back in the courtyard, another child stands on a platform about to climb a ladder that appears to lead to the roof terrace. The terrace has a hexagonal shape, a waist high parapet (ledge) all around, dainty cross and circle patterned tile floor, and a gazebo structure in the center. Four children are on the roof (positioned at 10 o’clock, 12 o’clock and 2 o’clock.) At far left (10 o’clock) two children on tip toes lean over the parapet. One has both elbows on the ledge and looks downward, the second looks upward, holding in his right hand a string attached to a kite (visible only on the adjacent panel - the 'butterfly.' ) Towards the back ledge (12 o’clock) a child looks up at the kite he holds over his head - it resembles a fish skeleton with a kite tail trailing from the fish tail. To this right, (2 o’clock) a child straddles the ledge (one foot over the side), holding a kite string in his outstretched hands (the kite is the star on the other panel.) The gazebo has a pointed roof tipped with a spire above which a walled structure rises (part of the garden wall in the adjacent panel.) On the right of the building, near street level there is a large four paned window with decorations resembling crossed boomerangs. On the middle level a balcony protrudes from the building. A striped curtain has blown out from the window and drapes over the balcony rail. A partial figure (half a head, half a chest) peers from behind a window on the balcony. A child hangs from an opening in the balcony rail. (The balcony rail is completed on the other panel.) The top of the paper appears discolored. Among the striking features of this panel are the way the shadows cast by aspects of the architecture appear as large flat geometric shapes and offering respite from the delicate busyness of the patterned walls and the bold linear elements of the ladder, the balcony, and gazebo. The artist makes wonderful use of diagonals, light and shadow, multiple patterns and geometric shapes, to create fantasy spaces on different planes, not always decipherable, with a few mysterious half-hidden figures for good measure, all of which keeps the viewer engaged. As this is a 2-dimensional, monochrome drawing (shades of gray on a light background) one of the exciting aspects of the artist’s skill is how she juxtaposes a variety of lines and patterns against each other, some dark and dense, some light and sparse, to distinguish areas and elements from one another, giving each its own voice in the artwork.

Drawing, Serenade, 1948
graphite, pen and ink on linen.
Gift of Matthew L. Edelman.
2016-37-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Fish Matchsafe
silver.
Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
1980-14-1236

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Drawing, Design for a Boat-Shaped Vessel, possibly intended as a Festival Float

Drawing, Design for a Boat-Shaped Vessel, possibly intended as a Festival Float
pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on off-white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1911-28-169

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Drawing, Fisherman in Quebec, Canada

Drawing, Fisherman in Quebec, Canada
brush and wash, gouache, charcoal on gray-green wove paper.
Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr..
1912-12-89

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Bag (USA)
silk, glass beads.
Gift of Mary S. M. Gibson.
1945-54-24

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Fishing motif Matchsafe

Fishing motif Matchsafe
silver, brass, copper.
Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
1980-14-488

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Drawing, Still-life with Fish and Parrot

Drawing, Still-life with Fish and Parrot
black and white chalk on blue laid paper.
Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund.
1938-66-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Napkin, Fish: Design no. 561

Napkin, Fish: Design no. 561
H x W: 67.9 × 70.2 cm (26 3/4 × 27 5/8 in.).
Museum purchase from Alice Baldwin Beer Memorial Fund.
1985-65-1

This object was made by E.F.J. Van Dissel and Son.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Print, Projet de Sculpture en Argent d'un Grand Surtout de Table et les Deux Terrines...Executée pour Millord Kinston (sic) en 1735 (Design for Centerpiece and Two Tureens for the Duke of Kingston in 1735) plate 115 in Œuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Print, Projet de Sculpture en Argent d'un Grand Surtout de Table et les Deux...
etching on off-white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-212-72

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Table Mat (possibly China)

Table Mat (possibly China)
silk.
Gift of Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland.
1990-99-4

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Scenic Wallpaper, Sea Beauties

Scenic Wallpaper, Sea Beauties
lithograph print on paper.
Gift of the family of Victor S. Robinson, Salem, New Jersey.
2004-16-1

This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Napkin, Fish
linen.
Museum purchase from Alice Baldwin Beer Memorial Fund.
1985-65-9

This object was made by E.F.J. Van Dissel and Son.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Drawing, Design for a Belt Buckle with Two Fish and Seaweed

Drawing, Design for a Belt Buckle with Two Fish and Seaweed
brush and watercolor and gouache; graphite on gray-green wove paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel.
1950-6-7

This object was made by Maison Vever.
This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Print, Goldfische Wandbehang (Goldfish Wall Hanging), plate 17, in Die Quelle: Flächen Schmuck (The Source: Ornament for Flat Surfaces)

Print, Goldfische Wandbehang (Goldfish Wall Hanging), plate 17, in Die...
color lithograph on paper.
Gift of Jerrol E. Golden.
1999-41-1-18

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Sidewall, Teacher's Pet

Sidewall, Teacher's Pet
screen printed on paper-backed vinyl.
Gift of F. Schumacher & Co..
1994-100-6

This object was made by F. Schumacher & Co..
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Poster, 16th Exhibition of Japan Advertising Artists Club, Seibu

Poster, 16th Exhibition of Japan Advertising Artists Club, Seibu
screenprint on paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2009-12-13

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Drawing, Design for a Comb with "Flying Fish" Motif

Drawing, Design for a Comb with "Flying Fish" Motif
graphite, brush and watercolor, white gouache on brownish translucent wove....
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment and Smithsonian....
1998-10-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Chatelaine
white metal, gilded metal, enamel.
Gift of Harvey Smith.
1968-135-74

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Large oblong basket woven fishing trap with rounded rectangualr opening tapering into a pointed cone at end. The trap is woven with thin, closely packed reeds bound virtically through horizontal frames that form the cages structure

Fish Trap (Papua New Guinea), Before 1929
plaited rattan, sago-palm ribs, cane.
Transferred from the US Department of Agriculture and Dr. E. W. Brandes,....
15.2012.16

Fishhook (Solomon Islands)

Fishhook (Solomon Islands)
carved turtle shell, mother-of-pearl, glass beads, fiber cord.
Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian....
15.2012.17

Octopus Lure (USA)

Octopus Lure (USA)
cowrie shell, worked stone, carved wood, cord, lashing.
Collected by Dr. Nathaniel B. Emerson, exhibited at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific....
15.2012.43

Object ID #18698067

Object ID #18698067
glazed porcelain with photo-transfer (silkscreen) and painted-platinum....
Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.
2003-4-1-a/c

This object was made by Ancienne Manufacture Royale de Limoges.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Window Shade, Hawaii

Window Shade, Hawaii
hand painted on canvas.
Gift of Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
2009-17-3

This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.