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- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- metal, silver; lacquer; shell, abalone
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0459 a,b
- Description
- Two small matching square bowls, each with deep sides and a flat bottom. The bowls have a silver (?) lining on the inside with dark (green?) lacquer on the exterior. The front of each bowl is decorated with a floral design inlaid with pink and blue abalone. The bottom of one bowl (a) is marked …
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- Title
- Bowl
- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- metal, silver; lacquer; shell, abalone
- Dimensions
- 4.5 x 6.0 x 6.0 cm
- Description
- Two small matching square bowls, each with deep sides and a flat bottom. The bowls have a silver (?) lining on the inside with dark (green?) lacquer on the exterior. The front of each bowl is decorated with a floral design inlaid with pink and blue abalone. The bottom of one bowl (a) is marked “Fong’s Inn #141 $10.00”.
- Subject
- households
- souvenirs
- plants
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0459 a,b
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- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- metal; glass; enamel
- Catalogue Number
- 104.47.0007
- Description
- A small round clock in a heavy brass case with a hinged round frame of brass decorated with scroll and flower relief surrounding a glass window lined with copper. The door opens to a white enamel face with black numerals from 1-12 (the twelve is red) inside a circular scale marked in minutes (by f…
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- Title
- Clock
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- metal; glass; enamel
- Dimensions
- 2.2 cm
- Description
- A small round clock in a heavy brass case with a hinged round frame of brass decorated with scroll and flower relief surrounding a glass window lined with copper. The door opens to a white enamel face with black numerals from 1-12 (the twelve is red) inside a circular scale marked in minutes (by fives) from 5-60 around the outside. The clock has delicate gold hands that can be adjusted by a gold knob at the centre of the dial. The housing of the clock is soldered into a brass ring and has a lug projecting from the centre of the back with a threaded hole through the top and a hole drilled through the side. There is no apparent way to wind this clock.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.47.0007
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- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- wood, walnut; metal, brass; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0470
- Description
- A shaped oval stand of walnut with a beaded floral pattern (black, white, grey, amber) on a linen pad (faded rose).
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- Title
- Footstool
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- wood, walnut; metal, brass; glass
- Dimensions
- 5.6 x 27.5 x 54.0 cm
- Description
- A shaped oval stand of walnut with a beaded floral pattern (black, white, grey, amber) on a linen pad (faded rose).
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- crafts
- needlework
- beadwork
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0470
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.03.06
- Description
- Colour: black on white; a wounded bison with three arrows in his side and blood coming out of his mouth, kneels in the center of the picture;to the left and right are large leafless trees; a huge sun sits halfway on the horizon of rolling hills; in the background to the right, six figures with stic…
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Neolithic Age
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- ink; graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 10.7 x 18.4 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white; a wounded bison with three arrows in his side and blood coming out of his mouth, kneels in the center of the picture;to the left and right are large leafless trees; a huge sun sits halfway on the horizon of rolling hills; in the background to the right, six figures with sticks run up from behind a tree; to the left, in the background are two bears.
- Subject
- animal, buffalo
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Iva (Mrs. Len) Smith, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.03.06
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- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0131
- Description
- A squat round jug with the lip distorted to form a pouring spout. The pitcher has a loop handle with a thumb tab attached opposite to the spout. The pitcher is white with a relief design painted over with gold and shades of green. A vine with half-green, half-gold leaves and gold berries over a …
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- Title
- Pitcher
- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 10.5 cm
- Description
- A squat round jug with the lip distorted to form a pouring spout. The pitcher has a loop handle with a thumb tab attached opposite to the spout. The pitcher is white with a relief design painted over with gold and shades of green. A vine with half-green, half-gold leaves and gold berries over a background texture of scattered comma shapes decorates the top of the pitcher, beneath a narrow band of large dots at the rim. The base of the jug is painted green and has green leaves scattered about. A flower-like design is painted on the thumb tab of the handle. The jug is marked “Sporting Dogs”, “Old Leeds” and “Paragon, England PC”.
- Subject
- households
- plants
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0131
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- Date
- 1870 – 1900
- Material
- ceramic, earthenware
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0224
- Description
- A round platter with a slight depression in the middle. The platter is white with four blue sunflowers and leaves evenly spaced around the border. There is a blue scalloped band outlining the platter’s depression, and a blue picture of an arch in ruins with trees behind in the centre of the platt…
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- Title
- Platter
- Date
- 1870 – 1900
- Material
- ceramic, earthenware
- Description
- A round platter with a slight depression in the middle. The platter is white with four blue sunflowers and leaves evenly spaced around the border. There is a blue scalloped band outlining the platter’s depression, and a blue picture of an arch in ruins with trees behind in the centre of the platter.
- Subject
- households
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0224
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- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0439
- Description
- A very thin deep round dish. The saucer is white with a reddish brown floral bouquet at the centre and a narrow patterned circle where the dish curves into the sides. There is a band of small dots around the inside edge with an undulating line below.
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- Title
- Saucer
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- ceramic
- Description
- A very thin deep round dish. The saucer is white with a reddish brown floral bouquet at the centre and a narrow patterned circle where the dish curves into the sides. There is a band of small dots around the inside edge with an undulating line below.
- Subject
- households
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0439
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- Date
- 1880 – 1940
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0116
- Description
- A round, cup-shaped white porcelain bell with a knobby handle. The bell is decorated with gold lines around the bottom edge and each of the knobs of the handle. There are high relief clusters of coloured flowers and smaller single flowers scattered over surface of bell. The bell is marked with a …
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- Title
- Service Bell
- Date
- 1880 – 1940
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 11.0 cm
- Description
- A round, cup-shaped white porcelain bell with a knobby handle. The bell is decorated with gold lines around the bottom edge and each of the knobs of the handle. There are high relief clusters of coloured flowers and smaller single flowers scattered over surface of bell. The bell is marked with a Dresden hallmark.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- communication
- flowers
- plants
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0116
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- Date
- 1875 – 1910
- Material
- metal, silver
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0067 a,b
- Description
- A pair of silver plated rectangular serving dishes with high domed covers. Each dish has ornately worked silver floral trim along the shaped edge that is repeated in the border around the top of each cover. The floral trim is also repeated in the centre of the covers, around the bottom of large, …
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- Title
- Serving Dish
- Date
- 1875 – 1910
- Material
- metal, silver
- Dimensions
- 21.0 x 29.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of silver plated rectangular serving dishes with high domed covers. Each dish has ornately worked silver floral trim along the shaped edge that is repeated in the border around the top of each cover. The floral trim is also repeated in the centre of the covers, around the bottom of large, heavily patterned, ring handles. The dishes are marked “Sheffield”.
- Subject
- housholds
- decorative
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0067 a,b
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- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0462
- Description
- A silver plated tray shaped like an elongated oval with inward curving sides. The tray has a very heavy floral border and deep depression in the centre. The centre is chased and embossed with a large flower on a stalk at each end.
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- Title
- Serving Tray
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 10.0 x 25.5 cm
- Description
- A silver plated tray shaped like an elongated oval with inward curving sides. The tray has a very heavy floral border and deep depression in the centre. The centre is chased and embossed with a large flower on a stalk at each end.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0462
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- Date
- 1875 – 1900
- Material
- wood; glass; metal; paint
- Catalogue Number
- 104.47.0001
- Description
- A clock in a straight sided gable-topped wooden case with small spires on either side. The wood is a mahogany veneer. The case has a pointed glass door painted with three pansies on a black background at the bottom and is clear at the top over the face. The face dial has Roman numerals with meta…
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- Title
- Shelf Clock
- Date
- 1875 – 1900
- Material
- wood; glass; metal; paint
- Dimensions
- 51.8 x 11.3 x 27.2 cm
- Description
- A clock in a straight sided gable-topped wooden case with small spires on either side. The wood is a mahogany veneer. The case has a pointed glass door painted with three pansies on a black background at the bottom and is clear at the top over the face. The face dial has Roman numerals with metal hands and two holes for winding with a key. A pendulum and gong hang inside the case below the clock face. The back of the clock is marked with “From -.-. ----land, 4 Wellington Street, Kingston, Ont.”.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.47.0001
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- Date
- 1870 – 1900
- Material
- ceramic, bone china
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0225 a-h
- Description
- A set of four white saucers and matching handless cups, each with a light blue border outlined with silver at the rims. Each plate has delicate pink and blue floral wreaths linked by floral chains inside of the blue border. Each plate is marked on the bottom with “Z.S. # Co.” and “Bavaria”.
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- Title
- Tableware Set
- Date
- 1870 – 1900
- Material
- ceramic, bone china
- Description
- A set of four white saucers and matching handless cups, each with a light blue border outlined with silver at the rims. Each plate has delicate pink and blue floral wreaths linked by floral chains inside of the blue border. Each plate is marked on the bottom with “Z.S. # Co.” and “Bavaria”.
- Subject
- households
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0225 a-h
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- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0184
- Description
- A ten sided teapot, with a sagging belly, which sits on a square four legged base. The pot has a curved spout extending from the bottom of the belly and a large handle attached opposite the spout. The teapot has a high domed lid with a looped cup-handle. The teapot is decorated with a thin line …
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- Title
- Teapot
- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 20.5 x 20.5 cm
- Description
- A ten sided teapot, with a sagging belly, which sits on a square four legged base. The pot has a curved spout extending from the bottom of the belly and a large handle attached opposite the spout. The teapot has a high domed lid with a looped cup-handle. The teapot is decorated with a thin line around the teapot at its 'waist' joined at the side with a three blossomed flower. Small brush strokes in groups of three border the mouth of the pot, and similar strokes decorate the spout, base, and lid.
- Subject
- households
- social customs
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0184
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Tokyo Aristocratic School Picture of Banquet of Gakushu
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- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.09 a-c
- Description
- This triptych is highly decorative with a flower motif on everything from the carpet to the kimonos. Most prevalent colour is red and green. A banquet is occurring. On the first panel in the trc two women sit on a platform. 5 other women standing and sitting are in this panel as well, all facin…
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- Title
- Tokyo Aristocratic School Picture of Banquet of Gakushu
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 36 x 72 cm
- Description
- This triptych is highly decorative with a flower motif on everything from the carpet to the kimonos. Most prevalent colour is red and green. A banquet is occurring. On the first panel in the trc two women sit on a platform. 5 other women standing and sitting are in this panel as well, all facing right. The second panel features a table covered with food and flowers. 3 active women are gathered around the table, almost blending into the decorations while a fourth woman kneels in the trc facing right. A rectangular descriptive panel is in the trc. The third panel features a separate room in the tlc where the men are gathered around a table and served by women. 5 women are gathered in the foreground of this panel playing instruments and holding small bowls; they are facing the table that is in the second panel.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.09 a-c
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- c. 1900
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.05.10
- Description
- Colourful flowers encircle a small rural scene. In this scene, farm buildings are to the left of a road. A small child sits against a fence lining the road. A man stands on the road in front of the child. A large, leafy tree extends up and out of the scene.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- c. 1900
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 32.4 cm
- Description
- Colourful flowers encircle a small rural scene. In this scene, farm buildings are to the left of a road. A small child sits against a fence lining the road. A man stands on the road in front of the child. A large, leafy tree extends up and out of the scene.
- Credit
- Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.05.10
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- c. 1900
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.05.11
- Description
- A still life of flowers.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- c. 1900
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 32.4 cm
- Description
- A still life of flowers.
- Subject
- still life
- botanical
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.05.11
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