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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 tall stoneware ovoid bottle on a straight footring with a narrow, short, flaring neck and a direct rim. It has four loop handles connecting the neck to shoulder, incised with floral decoration, and the upper half of the body is covered in green, amber, and yellow polychrome glazes. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bottle
1271 – 1368
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.152
Cloisonne (metalwork with enamel decor) jar. This jar uses brightly colored red, blue, green, yellow, and pinkish-purple enamelsto decorate its registers with intricate floral and vegetal patterns. Mounted on a sturdy circular base, the body of the vase flares outward to its widest point, then curves inward more steeply toward the neck, from which a bowl-like mouth curves upwards.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Vase (one of a pair)
19th century
Gift of Doris Duke's Southeast Asian Art Collection
2005/1.470.2
This deep footed bowl comes from the 17th century Safavid period in Iran. The bowl features an ivory ground with a glossy glaze and blue and black underglaze painting. Cobalt blue floral rug designs cover the exterior of the bowl and  a cobalt blue medallion is found on the interior base.
Iranian (Iranian)
Deep bowl with medallion design
17th century
Museum purchase
1957/1.92
A white earthenware box where the cover and the body are almost identical in form, the entire vessel of a short cylindrical from with flat top, with subtle articulation at the shoulder, on a shallow footring.  It is covered in blue, amber, and green glazes applied in a splotchy manner. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Box
936 – 1125
Gift of Ellen and Richard Laing
2006/2.50A&B
An earthenware sancai three-color glazed figure of a man wearing a long green robe and tall black hat. He is carrying an amber-glazed rectangular box over the top of an amber-glazed tasseled sash that covers his hands, and is standing on a green- and amber-glazed octagonal dais. His face is painted in polychrome mineral pigments, and his head was sculpted separately from the body.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Male Attendant
1368 – 1644
Gift of Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur
2009/2.105A&B
A purple and light blue spotted saucer with a gold metal rim.
Saucer
15th century
Promised gift of William C. Weese, M.D., LSA ‘65
PG2020.2.17
An earthenware figure of a small bird, seated with head raised and resting on its tail, stretched out behind. The figure is covered in amber and green glazes. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Small bird
618 – 906
Gift of Toshiko Ogita in memory of Tomoo Ogita
1987/1.289
A conical, wide-flaring buff stoneware teabowl with a direct rim on a straight footring, covered with black glaze with russet brown mottling on the exterior and russet streaks on the interior. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Teabowl
12th century
Museum purchase for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1964/2.77
Bencharong ware spittoon made in a private kiln in Jingdezhen, China, for Thai market. Probably ordered from Thai royalty, under the reign of Rama II (r. 1809-1824). It is the porcelain ware enameled with multiple colors, in the style called “five colors” (“bencharong” refers to five colors in Sanskrit). It has a large mouth and bulbous shape, with design of minor Buddhist deities Thepanom and Norasingh, and Chinese fire patterns.<br />
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bencharong Ware Spitton with Buddhist dieties Thapanom and Norasingh, and Chinese fire patterns
1800 – 1832
Gift of Doris Duke's Southeast Asian Art Collection
2005/1.464
A pair of green glazed rectangular chests on amber glazed dais, with amber central locks and handles on opposing sides.  
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Pair of Chests
1368 – 1644
Gift of Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur
2008/2.281
An earthenware miniature amber-glazed basin on a four legged green-glazed stand that mimics wooden furniture, on an unglazed slab base. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Basin on Stand
1368 – 1644
Gift of Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur
2008/2.282
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