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Results for On display?:on; Current location:UMMA Gallery Location ➔ FFW, Mezzanine ➔ M06 (Shirley Chang Gallery of Chinese Art)

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A blue and white platter. White porcellanous body with painting in blue under a clear glaze slightly tinged with blue-green.
Ali ibn al-Hajj Muhammad
Platter with an inscription from a Hadith [a saying of the Prophet Muhammad], signed by Ali ibn al-Hajj Muhammad
1600 – 1799
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.158
A porcelain bottle vase of double gourd form on a flared footring with tall narrow neck and the reverse side flat with a slot for hanging. The vase is outlined in underglaze blue and has a six-character Wanli mark in a plaque framed by a polychrome overglaze lotus leaf on the top, and a lotus flower on the bottom. The front is decorated with underglaze blue and polychrome overglaze enamels to depict a pair of phoenixes flying among clouds on the upper bulb, and two phoenixes facing each other among an earthly flower garden on the lower bulb. These are confined between<em> lingzhi</em>-shaped clouds and lotus meander borders, with banana leaf lappets around the rim, all covered in a clear glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Double-Gourd Wall Vase
1573 – 1620
Gift of Marian Doering in memory of Paul M. Doering
1979/2.12
A buff stoneware globular jar, with a tapered base and wide, high shoulders, tapering to a wide, short neck with an everted rim. The work is covered in a mottled cobalt blue glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
600 – 649
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1962/1.100
jade pendent with zoomorphic design, with abstract representation of animal form, possibly a bird. Notchs on the edge and worn relief carvings on the surface indicate that the pendant was probably recarved from a broken jade object from an earlier era.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Zoomorphic pendant
8700 BCE
Museum purchase from the collection of Max Loehr
1960/2.95
This red earthenware four-story pavilion is surrounded by a courtyard wall with a hipped roof covered gateway. Each story is similar in construction but graduated in size with the smallest story on top. These small, single-bay rooms feature a door entrance below a lattice window. Waving figures can be seen in the doorways. The overhanging roof eaves supported by a triple bracket set display roof ridges imitating tile work and provide the base for the next storey’s roof balcony. The entire structure is covered in a green lead glaze with iridescence and calcification.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Model of a four-storied pavilion
25 – 220
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.71.1

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Model of a four-storied pavilion
25 – 220
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.71.2
A large globular jar on a narrow footring, with a wide, short mouth and a direct rim, and four louped coil lugs attaching the neck to the shoulder, covered in a white glaze.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
800 – 906
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1964/2.2
A red earthenware ceramic model of a goat pen, containing one ram and three ewes, with a small shed over the pen with stairs.  The exterior and goats are covered in a green lead glaze with iridescence and calcification.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Goat Pen
25 – 220
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern
1990/1.211
This is a round bottomed bowl on three legs with high straight sides and and everted rim. It is covered in a green celadon craqueleur glaze.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Incense Burner
15th century
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.108
greyware jar with lid, pained with polychrome mystic cloud design, flared neck, globular body, tall foot
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Large covered hu (wine storage jar) with molded taotie masks and painted designs of stylized clouds and Mount Penglai
01/01/9901 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.77.1-2

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Model of a four-storied pavilion
25 – 220
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.71.3
Rubbing of limestone slab carved bas-relief with six registers. The lower register depicts a chariot procession above fish-inhabited waters. The central three registers depict figures carrying out funerary rites. The top register shows a winged creature with a human face flanked by two writhing dragons and other animals, including two rabbits and a nine-tailed fox. <br />
Bo Yang
Rubbing of Journey of the Soul to the Paradise of the Queen Mother of the West (2000/2.1) - Front
2008
Museum purchase made possible by the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund
2008/1.154.1
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