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  • Sculpture (France), ca. 1910

    Finely modeled head in gilt bronze on alabaster trapezoidal pedestal. Front of the pedestal is decorated with incised and gilt ornament.

  • Sculpture

    Three long rectangles of clear glass, with fused-on bits of blue, green and purple glass, occasionally reinforced by wire. Each panel backed with white felt and mounted together on rectangular…

  • Adinkra Ceremonial Wrapper (Ghana), mid-20th century

    Woman’s cotton wrapper, dyed dark brown and printed with hand-carved stamps in a dark glossy ink. The cloth is divided into a grid of four by seven squares; each square…

  • Wrapper (Ghana), 20th century

    Cotton, dyed dark brown and block-printed in a dark glossy substance, in geometric patterns in groups of three rows, forming rectangles. The motifs are carved on calabashes then stamped on…

  • Textile (Ghana), ca. 1960

    Sample of tied- and stitched-resist patterns, indigo-dyed and partially opened.

  • The Sayings of Confucius Sculpture, 1956

    Clear glass sculpture (a), reminiscent of an irregularly faceted block of rock crystal, engraved with a Confucian inscription in formal Chinese calligraphy. Square black wooden base (b); red leather-covered case…

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