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Sharing artworks from the Minneapolis Art Institute Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture department. Not associated with the Minneapolis Art Institute. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 13h

Box with cover https://collections.artsmia.org/art/108790/

rounded lozenge-shaped box of swirling golden and dark wood tones; interior incised with swirling geometric shapes inside base and cover

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 15h

Breakfast set https://collections.artsmia.org/art/40878/

Comprised of a demilune tea or coffee pot and pie-shaped creamer and sugar bowl designed to conform and fit within circular tray
In the late '20s, Gene Theobald and Virginia Hamill propelled the International Silver Company into the avant-garde with a series of three-piece tea services, each consisting of a teapot, creamer and sugar, cleverly designed as form-fitting units and tray. In keeping with the times, they were designed for expediency and practicality, taking very little space and accommodating America's emerging class of apartment dwellers on the move.

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 17h

"White House" still bank https://collections.artsmia.org/art/81980/

rectangular bank with grey detachable lid; bank painted to look like White House with grass, trees and shrubs included

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 20h

"Safe" still bank https://collections.artsmia.org/art/82100/

slot bank in the form of a radiator grill; rectangular with 4 small feet; sides have an urn and scroll motif; back of bank opens like a safe

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 21h

Five-dial combination box still bank https://collections.artsmia.org/art/82269/

oval, wood; 5 dials and 3 other knobs on top; coin slot on top; braid (2 rows) on side; top rotates to open on peg next to 3 dials when combo is properly set

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 1d

Cock or Chanticleer https://collections.artsmia.org/art/99785/

rooster with PL leg raised; three long curling tailfeathers; beak slightly open; oval wood base

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 1d

Plate https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8921/

hexagonally lobed faience plate with brown glaze border and subsidiary decorative ripple effect in body of plate; center is filled with a casual arrangement of flowers a large carmine carnation, blue field daisies, buttercups and a purple parrot tulip; small sprays of fleurs fines on border

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 1d

Sugar bowl https://collections.artsmia.org/art/18732/

Sugar bowl

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 1d

"Chevaux Marin" (seahorse) chenet, one of a pair https://collections.artsmia.org/art/116021/

prancing horse, facing right, with feathery webbed feet in place of hooves; horse has a tasseled blanket on its back; feathery cresting decorative scrolling waves

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 1d

Small Beaker https://collections.artsmia.org/art/20995/

small beaker, purple glass painted in enamel with two sprays of flowers, a heart and inscribed with initial [R]

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 2d

Tulip Vase https://collections.artsmia.org/art/17752/

blue tulip type Sandwich glass

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 2d

Plate, one of five https://collections.artsmia.org/art/4937/

one of five blue and white plates; Tianqi/Congzhen; landscapes, two with two scholars seated below a tree; three with single sage on terrace

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 2d

Arabian Stallion, from Nativity Scene https://collections.artsmia.org/art/84389/

Arabian Stallion, from Nativity Scene

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 2d

Armchair https://collections.artsmia.org/art/4569/

Purcell and Elmslie designed a number of Midwestern banks. These square brick buildings with their opaque art-glass window walls embodied the qualities of solidity and stability important to bankers and their customers. The most elaborate was the Merchants National Bank of Winona, Minnesota, still in use as a bank today. Twelve chairs of this design were made for the bank directors' boardroom. Their cube-like shape echoes that of the bank building. The vertical spindle "screens" forming the sides probably influenced Purcell and Elmslie's designs of armchairs and decorative interior elements for the Edna S. Purcell residence (now the Purcell-Cutts house), in Minneapolis, designed at the same time.

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 2d

Meat Dish, from a Child's Dinner Service https://collections.artsmia.org/art/29872/

decorated with moulding and feather edging; tureen finial and twisted handles have been applied by hand; finials on the serving pieces are in the shape of a bud; some pieces are potted thicker than others

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 3d

Providence parlour https://collections.artsmia.org/art/14019/

This architecturally important room was the informal parlor of a house built in about 1772 in Providence, Rhode Island. Other rooms from the house are owned by the Brooklyn Museum and the Denver Art Museum. The house, while modified, still stands on North Main Street (then King Street). The classically inspired front doorway of the house includes an impressive arched pediment above Corinthian pilasters. The design of the doorway and the paneled interior of the parlor, with dentil molding and elaborate triangular pediment, were taken from popular 18th-century pattern books, including Batty Langley's widely circulated The Builder's Compleat Assistant (London, 1738). The original owner of the house was Joseph Russell, a prosperous merchant in the West Indies trade who sold exotic goods. Russell's daughter, Susan Conde Russell, married John Corlis in 1790, and shortly thereafter acquired her father's home. Installed in 1923, the Providence Parlor was the first American period room in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and was originally furnished by the Friends of the Institute. Through later restorations to its original paint color and proportions, the Providence Parlor provides a rare glimpse into the life of the Russell-Corlis family in late-18th-century New England.

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 3d

"Tom Thumb Cash Register (registering)" still bank https://collections.artsmia.org/art/81473/

silver and black cash register; 13 keys (working): 12 white with black numbers and one red "No Sale"; drawer opens; drawer with decal is greenish grey

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 3d

Basket, from a set of 22 https://collections.artsmia.org/art/12718/

irregularly ovoid-shaped bowl with burned (?) rim; light grey; subtile linear pattern

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 3d

Basket, from a set of 22 https://collections.artsmia.org/art/12723/

irregularly ovoid-shaped bowl with burned (?) rim; light grey; subtile linear pattern

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 3d

Teapot https://collections.artsmia.org/art/14957/

29.4.3c - tray not in same location

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 4d

"Piano" (converted still bank) mechanical bank https://collections.artsmia.org/art/80915/

upright piano with trophies of musical instruments

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 4d

Axe head with crouching lion https://collections.artsmia.org/art/21312/

axe head with crouching lion and animal heads. Arms and Armor-Edged Weapon

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 4d

"The Last Edition: Anything New? (money box)" still bank https://collections.artsmia.org/art/81880/

rectangular wooden bank with crenulated top; black transfer print of chicken and chicks coming out of eggs; swing-up top with slot; black groove around total rectangle top and bottom

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 4d

Lozenge-shaped Dish https://collections.artsmia.org/art/23967/

Wedgwood pearlware partial dessert service, porcelain, printed and colored in green with designs of shells and seaweed, includes thirty-three pieces

MIA: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture (Bot) @miadecorativearts.bsky.social · 4d

Window, from a set of 12 https://collections.artsmia.org/art/30919/

clear glass panels with blue circle on one side; 4 small squares opposite (green and pink swirled, white, dark blue and orange) and 3 squares at one short side (blue, orange, green)