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Bric-A-Brac Stand
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- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0224 a,b
- Description
- Two separate large square box-like lacquered wood stands, graduated in size. Black lacquer covered with gold vine and leaf pattern. Red lacquered recessed platform at top. Short straight legs at each corner attached to square frame at base forming cut-out windows on each side. Floral motif at centr…
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- Title
- Bric-A-Brac Stand
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 12.1 x 12.3 cm
- Description
- Two separate large square box-like lacquered wood stands, graduated in size. Black lacquer covered with gold vine and leaf pattern. Red lacquered recessed platform at top. Short straight legs at each corner attached to square frame at base forming cut-out windows on each side. Floral motif at centre of each side of platform with three long leaves spiralling to form round medallion. Top edges trimmed in gold.Paper labels on bases: “From Mrs. Russell Robb/ Concord/ Massachusetts”
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Japanese
- E.S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0224 a,b
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Bric-A-Brac Stand
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0225%20a%2cb
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0225 a,b
- Description
- Two identical square box-like stands of black lacquered wood covered with gold vine and leaf pattern. Recessed platform of red lacquer at top, outward bowed legs at each corner attached to square frame at base forming shaped cut-out windows on each side. Floral motif at centre of each side of platf…
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- Title
- Bric-A-Brac Stand
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 10.8 x 20.0 x 20.3 cm
- Description
- Two identical square box-like stands of black lacquered wood covered with gold vine and leaf pattern. Recessed platform of red lacquer at top, outward bowed legs at each corner attached to square frame at base forming shaped cut-out windows on each side. Floral motif at centre of each side of platform with three long leaves spiralling to form round medallion. Top edges trimmed in gold.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Japanese
- E. S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0225 a,b
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Canadian Rockies Climbing Report
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15166
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- June 21 1972
- Call Number
- F1090 J37
- Responsibility
- Japanese University student climbing group
- Published Date
- June 21 1972
- Physical Description
- 51 pages, ill.
- Notes
- Report of Japanese University students of their trip to Western Canada (Alberta, BC) and their climbing expepditions in the Rocky Mountains. Includes articles written by students about their experiences, a full itinerary of their trip, diagrams of Columbia Icefield traverse, photos and cost of trip.
- Article about Banff
- Call Number
- F1090 J37
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Japanese pottery
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21011
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1971
- Author
- Jenyns, Soame
- Publisher
- London : Faber and Faber
- Call Number
- NK4167 J4
- Author
- Jenyns, Soame
- Publisher
- London : Faber and Faber
- Published Date
- c1971
- Physical Description
- xiv, 380p. : plates
- Subjects
- Pottery, Japanese
- Notes
- Bibliography p.348-350
- Call Number
- NK4167 J4
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.15
- Description
- A group of six women dressed in kimonos are surrounded by large leafy taro plants. They are and are reacting to a woman falling on the right side of the image. The background left and right is decorated with silhouettes of trees. There are signatures or markings at the bottom right and the upper le…
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- Title
- Ki ippogan
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 70 cm
- Description
- A group of six women dressed in kimonos are surrounded by large leafy taro plants. They are and are reacting to a woman falling on the right side of the image. The background left and right is decorated with silhouettes of trees. There are signatures or markings at the bottom right and the upper left.
- Subject
- women
- Japanese
- vegetation
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- ChY.04.15
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Man's Tie Clip
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- Date
- 1977
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0190
- Description
- A long, chrome bar with Japanese ceramic pot at the middle;. Pot is matte with deep, cup like base and widely flaring rim. Wide decorative band around middle, and texture along undulating edge of rim. Rests against shiny bar horizontally behind, spring clamp on back attached to angled piece of me…
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- Title
- Man's Tie Clip
- Date
- 1977
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 1.4 x 1.5 x 6.1 cm
- Description
- A long, chrome bar with Japanese ceramic pot at the middle;. Pot is matte with deep, cup like base and widely flaring rim. Wide decorative band around middle, and texture along undulating edge of rim. Rests against shiny bar horizontally behind, spring clamp on back attached to angled piece of metal at one end of the bar. Long clamp jaw is serrated, and opens by pressing end. Bar and pot cast in one piece.
- Subject
- households
- Japanese
- Edward S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0190
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Miniature Boots
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.01.0158
- Date
- 1978
- Material
- grass
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0158
- Description
- A pair of woven straw snowboots, solidly woven thick sole, upper foot closely woven with braided twining, and shank left unwoven with upright ribs which have been woven around at top leaving ends as fringe around outside. Boots attached together by a length of twisted straw cord.
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- Title
- Miniature Boots
- Date
- 1978
- Material
- grass
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 3.5 x 7.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of woven straw snowboots, solidly woven thick sole, upper foot closely woven with braided twining, and shank left unwoven with upright ribs which have been woven around at top leaving ends as fringe around outside. Boots attached together by a length of twisted straw cord.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0158
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Miniature Koto
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.01.0171
- Date
- 1977 – 1978
- Material
- wood; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0171
- Description
- A miniature Japanese koto. Solid piece of wood representing sounding box is varnished and is covered at one end with orange brocade fabric, with a small piece of the same fabric at the other end to protect wood from the rubbing of the strings. Thirteen strings of yellow thread are strung across a l…
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- Title
- Miniature Koto
- Date
- 1977 – 1978
- Material
- wood; fibre
- Dimensions
- 1.2 x 2.8 x 15.0 cm
- Description
- A miniature Japanese koto. Solid piece of wood representing sounding box is varnished and is covered at one end with orange brocade fabric, with a small piece of the same fabric at the other end to protect wood from the rubbing of the strings. Thirteen strings of yellow thread are strung across a low bridge at each end, with smaller bridges or frets supporting individual strings at different points to vary the pitch of each. Koto supported at each end with short brown painted legs. In cardboard box with grey and green scribbly lines and stamped at one end with Japanese writing and "15 cm/ No. (?)".
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0171
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Monuments of civilization : Japan
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20422
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1973, 1971
- Author
- Tamburello, Adolfo
- Publisher
- New York : Grosset & Dunlap
- Call Number
- N7350 T3
- Author
- Tamburello, Adolfo
- Responsibility
- text by Aldolfo Tamburello ; forward by Yasunari Kawabata
- Publisher
- New York : Grosset & Dunlap
- Published Date
- c1973, 1971
- Physical Description
- 192p. : ill.
- Subjects
- Art, Japanese
- Notes
- Bibliography p.190
- Includes index
- ISBN
- 0-448-02022-X
- Accession Number
- 3069
- Call Number
- N7350 T3
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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Mountain and Valley / World Mountain Equipment catalogue
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15171
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1975
- Call Number
- P
- Published Date
- 1975
- Notes
- Library has 1975, #5 and June issues
- Japanese language
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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