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Metal "Real" Lisa Clague n.d. Mixed media wall hanging sculpture in two pieces. The wooden framed piece (A) has a ceramic center decorated with a painted board, a real dried rose, a grid of nails on a gold square and a ledge...	Cigar Box Liza Lou 1996 Wooden cigar box covered everywhere but on bottom with beads. Box (A) top and inside are green, black, red, white, and gold. Design on top of lid has a man with a hat and tobacco leaves and says...
untitled (paper bowl) Kay Sekimachi late 20th century This is a spherical handmade paper bowl.	untitled (String Basket) Kay Sekimachi Late 20th Century This is a small bowl made from cotton string. The bowl's multiple black and tan string spokes are reinforced with paper fiber through the sides of the bowl and hang over the rim approx 2-3...
untitled (two black paper spheres from "In the Process of Being" series) Kay Sekimachi 20th century This is a sculpture of two spherical forms made out of dark gray handmade paper with embedded string. (A) The larger sphere has an open slit at the top. The bottom interior of the large sphere...	BALL/BOWL (paper bowl with strings) Kay Sekimachi c. 1985 Oval shaped off-white handmade paper bowl with small flat bottom. String spokes are embedded in the paper starting from the flat base through the length of the bowl. The string spokes extend...
Untitled (string basket on block) Kay Sekimachi 20th century A small circular basket woven with black string rests on a blond wood block. The spokes of the basket hang over the edge of the basket and drape down the length of the wood block.	And So... Gyongy Laky 2005
Letter to a friend Fred Ball 1973 White cardboard box (inner portion of an acrylic box frame?) with a green glazed folded copper rectangle, in the shape of an envelope, mounted to the top center. Fred Ball has signed beneath the...	Untitled bottle Esteban Prieto 1960s Transparent hand blown light blue glass bottle. Bottle has smooth flared shape, wide at bottom and narrow at neck, with a wide 3/4" lip. Base of neck is decorated with four horizontal bands or...
African Chair #34: 'Third Man' Garry Knox Bennett 1992 Made in Oakland Notes from Sylvia Bennet (wife of the artist and donor of the chair) re: the chair: "This walnut chair has short, curved arms, which adjoin the back rail/backrest....	Untitled bottle Esteban Prieto 1960s Clear green hand blown glass bottle. Bottle is wider at the bottom and narrows to a small spout. Body has a scalloped shape. At top there are four extensions from the neck acting as handles....
Netted Newspaper Ed Rossbach \| Charles E. Rossbach 1975 Rectangular weaving made of newspaper strips wrapped in plastic; woven through a looping and wrapping method.	Soft Cube Ed Rossbach 1986 Basket woven from clear plastic tubing. Square base with round opening.
untitled David French late 20th century This is a sculpture in the form of a wooden sphere that is covered with gesso and incised with geometric designs. Dark oil paint is forced into the incised designs. A hole is drilled into one...	Forest Chair David Clark 1975 This wooden sculpture with mixed media has a composition of a small wooden side chair that sits on a rectangular section of "ground". The chair's legs transform into roots and trail into the...
Internal combustion from Wonder of the World Clayton Bailey 1997 Mixed media installation piece. Consists of a silver ceramic kiln (a), a black porcelain finished power supply (b), a white ceramic cone with black rubber bottom (c), a cylinder of copper wire...	Untitled (Wooden Bowl) Bob Stocksdale Mid to late 20th century Turned wood bowl made from Black Walnut with a wide shallow depression that tapers to a small circular base. Surface is varnished and shows multiple black knots in warm brown colored wood.
Mega Vessel Art Nelson 20th century-21st century Sculpture of a bowl with two spheres inside. Above bowl and around speres is vertical gridded screening. a) maroon vessel b) black vessel with lip c) small black vessel d) large gray vessel e)...	Untitled (compartment box with colored felt) Arthur Espenet Carpenter Mid to late 20th century Long rectangular box with five organic shaped compartments. Holes in the back of the box allow each compartment to be pushed open. The compartments are each composed of two interlocking pieces...
Rocky forms (green spherical bowl with lid) Yvonne Boutell 1976 Pigmented earthenware spherical bowl (A) with lid (B). Both are green with black squiggly lines. Lid has a recessed round handle.	Untitled plate William Crutchfield n.d. Glazed stoneware plate. Plate has gray and cobalt blue glaze. Design in center is a gray circle with a central blue star. To left and right of this are flames or sunbursts with a drawn dragon...
Untitled dinner ware Weil Ware c. 1940 There are 9 dinner plates (one is broken); 9 bowls (one chipped), 10 cups (good cond), 10 saucers (three chipped), 9 bread plates (3 chipped), 1 serving bowl (chipped), 1 creamer (good cond), 1...	Untitled (white bolt) Victor Spinski n.d. White clay slip cast earthenware sculpture with clear glaze. Sculpture is in the shape of a bolt. It is hollow and could also be used as a cup or a glass.