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This unglazed, earthenware globular jar has a flat base, wide neck, and two lug handles applied to shoulder with a combed pattern around body.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
1046 BCE – 771 BCE
Gift of Mrs. Henry Jewett Greene for The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jewett Greene Memorial Collection
1971/2.66
The gray jar with a little long neck has a foot with rectangular perforations and is potted with fine silt-based clay. The relatively thin mouth is slightly everted. Three deep incisions encircle the midsection of the neck. The globular body is decorated with two incised line encircled the body. The foot whose bottom is rolled outward is a little high and wide.<br /> <br /> This is a dark gray, long-necked, high-fired stoneware jar with a pedestal. It has a diagonally splayed neck that is encircled with two raised bands formed by narrowly incised lines. The rim has a rounded edge. The shape of the body is spheroidal, while a raised band marks the boundary between the neck and body. The body, which is widest at its center, is engraved with two shallow horizontal lines that create a wide raised band. The short pedestal and the vessel body are joined smoothly. The pedestal features four square perforations and spreads out horizontally near the bottom edge. <p>[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Storage Jar on cut-out pedestal foot
500 – 699
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.174
The gray jar with a little long neck has a foot with rectangular perforations and is potted with fine silt-based clay. The relatively thin mouth is slightly everted. Three deep incisions encircle the midsection of the neck. The globular body is decorated with two incised line encircled the body. The foot whose bottom is rolled outward is a little high and wide.<br /> <br /> The long and splayed neck of this blue-gray, high-fired stoneware jar is encircled by two sets of ridges. The set on the upper section of the neck has two ridges, and the set on the lower section has one ridge. The rim is narrow and round. The inner surface of the neck shows rough, uneven surfaces resulting from wheel throwing. The body is widest at its middle. The vessel surface has been smoothed by paring on a wheel after attaching the low pedestal. The pedestal shows six rectangular perforations. <p>[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 51]</p>
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Storage Jar on cut-out pedestal foot
400 – 599
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.176
This bright grayish-blue stoneware jar consists of a round base, globular body and long flaring neck. Narrow single ridges encircle the middle part of the neck, dividing it into four sections. Each section is engraved with a wave pattern. The shoulder doesn&rsquo;t have any pattern.<br /> <br /> This is a blue-gray, long-necked, high-fired stoneware jar. The horizontal ridge on the upper part of the long vessel neck marks the boundary between the neck and its inwardly curved mouth. The mouth slopes inward and has a sharp edge. The neck is divided into four sections by three horizontal ridges spaced at equal intervals, and each section is decorated by a wave design rendered with a comb with approximately ten teeth. The jar is widest at its upper-middle part, and the base is round with a slightly recessed center.<br /> [Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 47]<br /> &nbsp;
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Storage jar with bands of incised wavy patterns at neck; lid missing
5th century
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
2003/1.384
A tall cylindrical vessel on mamiform tri-pod feet with an everted, flaring, and direct rim. It has a black burnished body with reddish-buff feet. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Tripod Jar
2200 BCE – 1600 BCE
Gift of www.silkroadtrade.com owners Seung Man Kim, Robert Piao, Daniel Shin and Hemin Quan
2003/2.22
A buff stoneware globular jar, with a tapered base and wide, high shoulders, tapering to a wide, short neck with an everted rime and two small loop Hades on the sides near the rim. The work ranges from shades of brown to tan.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Small storage jar with two small loop handles
618 – 907
Museum Purchase
1950/2.14
This jar has a long, thick, cylindrical&nbsp;neck that&nbsp;abruptly gives way to a rounded upper half, tapering gently to a flat bottom, with two small lugs (ring handles) at the waist.&nbsp;This jar has a spiral design on the top half.<br /> &nbsp;
Majiayao
Storage Jar with two handles and painted spiral design, from Gansu Province, China
7400 BCE
Museum Purchase
1959/2.84
This grayish-blue stoneware jar has a globular body and short, a little flared neck. The surface of the body is encircled with a lot of thin incised lines. The base is a little flat.<br /> <br /> This is a dark gray, short-necked, high-fired stoneware jar with a flat bottom. The edge of the rim is round, and the inner surface of the neck is slightly tapered below the rim. The body is at its widest in the central part, while the flat base is rounded where it meets the body and is slightly indented at the edges. The entire body shows traces of rotation and water smoothing, with uneven surfaces resulting from rough water smoothing particularly visible on the lower part. The base also shows traces of having been pared and rubbed. <p>[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 50]</p>
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Storage Jar with wide mouth and everted rim
6th century
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.173
The gray jar with a little long neck has a foot with rectangular perforations. The relatively thick mouth is slightly everted. Three deep incisions encircle the midsection of the neck. The globular body is decorated with two incised line encircled the body. There are wave designs on the neck and upper body. The foot whose bottom is rolled outward is a little high and wide.<br /> <br /> This is a blue-gray, long-necked, high-fired stoneware jar. The long and flared neck of the jar is divided into four sections by thin horizontal incised lines in three places. The sections are decorated by the repeated use of short, downward strokes and wave designs made from scratching the surface with an implement. The body of the jar is widest at the middle, and slightly above the widest point, two incised lines have been drawn to form a section where the same wave design is applied from right to left according to the above technique. The lower part of the body shows faint traces of a parallel paddled pattern that has almo
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Large storage jar on cut-out pedestal foot
400 – 599
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.185
A light gray-buff earthenware <em>weng </em>甕 jar with a wide globular upper body, slightly angled shoulder and conical lower body on a flat base, and a short narrow neck with rim articulation. There are two appliqué coils around the upper body, with impressed rope decoration, and an impressed wheel or rope decoration around lower coiling on the lower portion of the body.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
770 BCE – 476 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.70
A globular, wide-mouthed jar with two bands of incised and impressed rib-pattern decoration, and two lug handles holding loose rings on the shoulder. A light coating of olive-green glaze covers the top and shoulder. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
475 BCE – 221 BCE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.93
This grayish-blue stoneware jar has a globular body and short, a little flared neck. The entire surface of the body is adorned with vertical line and encircled with thin incised lines. The base is flat.<br /> <br /> This is a gray, bottle-shaped, high-fired vessel. It is covered entirely with parallel diagonal striations, and these have been erased in some parts by rubbing the surface from right to left. The neck, connected to the top of the body where it suddenly grows much narrower, flares widely toward the rim, which has a grooved edge. The body is widest at its middle, around which two thin horizontal lines are incised. The lower part of the outer surface has been pared during rotation. The base of the vessel is flat and has a recessed center. <p>[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 75]</p> <br /> <br /> &nbsp;
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Small-mouthed storage jar with impressed cord design
6th century
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.164
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