17 UMMA Objects
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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 thin porcelain conical bowl with direct rim on a footring has an interior with incised floral meander decoration. It is covered in a white glaze with bluish tinge and has an unglazed rim.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
960 – 1279
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1973/2.17

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bead (1 of a set of 5)
8973 BCE
Museum purchase from the collection of Max Loehr
1960/2.100

A.W. Grigson
Suihalese Marshal and Women, Ceylon
19th century
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howard Bond
1988/1.107
This bowl flares out by having a smaller diameter on the bottom and larger diameter along the rim. The outside of the bowl is decorated with red, pink, and yellow peonies with green leaves. The inside of the bowl is decorated with a red rooster. The outside rim of the bowl has two red horizontal stripes, the top rim of the bowl is wavy with many bumps that resemble flower petals, the inside rim is decorated with more peonies. The foot of the bowl it tall.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Small Bowl with Peonies and Rooster Design
1767 – 1799
Gift of Mr. Chung Mo-nan
1956/2.19
Bowl with design of landscape and ox-herders on the inside and outside; there are trees, mountains, and a building. It in on a footing and has a wavy rim.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl with design of landscape and ox-herders
1912 – 1990
Gift of Catherine Hightower
1991/1.89
This photograph depicts a forested scene with two large, stone animals occupying the center of the frame.
Eliot Porter (American (North American))
The Kong Forest
1980
Gift of Clayton E. Wilhite
1987/1.252.3

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Fragment of Bird or Dragon Plaque
9519 BCE
Gift of the Estate of Agnes E. Meyer
1971/2.100

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bead (1 of a set of 5)
8973 BCE
Museum purchase from the collection of Max Loehr
1960/2.101
Vase with "tea dust" glaze and plum blossom branch handles. It is on a thick footing and a everted wavy rim.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Vase with "tea dust" glaze and plum blossom branch handles
19th century
Transfer from the School of Art and the College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
1997/1.193
A circular mirror with the rim made to look like flower petals. On the surface are six designs of floral medallions. There is a little ball in the center of the surface of the mirror with another floral medallion surrounding it.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Mirror, Baoxiang-hua type (with designs of floral medallions)
618 – 907
The Oliver J. Todd Memorial Collection
1974/1.191
This thin porcelain conical bowl with direct rim on a footring has an exterior carved with lotus petal decoration.  It is covered in a white glaze with bluish tinge, and the rim is unglazed.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
960 – 1279
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1973/2.21
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