15 UMMA Objects
15 UMMA Objects
Diné (Navajo) (Navajo (culture or style))
Navajo Gray Ware Cooking Pot
1935 – 1945
Gift of Estelle Titiev, from the collection of Mischa Titiev
1984/2.19
Saitō Kiyoshi (Japanese (culture or style))
Clay Image (Q) (highly abstracted haniwa female figure and pot)
1954
Gift of the artist
1958/2.25
Acoma Pueblo (Acoma)
Pot
1925 – 1935
Gift of Estelle Titiev, from the collection of Mischa Titiev
1984/2.20
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Five conjoined pots
206 BCE – 25 CE
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.99
Akan (Akan (culture or style))
Gold-weight
20th century
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.475
![Two distinct registers divide a page in half. At the top, a yellow-orange colored nude jina sits in lotus position upon a three tiered throne [a patterned blue level at the bottom on feet, with an orange section with gold and red decoration and a green level at the top with gold vertical stripes]. He sits against a red background adorned with a pattern of three white dots. The background takes the shape of an elegant cusped arch with a green and white pattern along its outside with a gold pattern at its sides. To the right of the seated figure a nude Digambara monk sits with his legs folded and one knee up on a less elaborate throne with a lota or pot at the corner and a crossed bookstand to the side holding a book with some devanagari writing on it. He raises his right arm and holds his left to his ear.<br />
Placed under a band of curving yellow stripes, the bottom register represents animals in a landscape. At the bottom are clumps of grass with four stylized mountain forms in blue at the right. Above the](/media/W1siZiIsIjIwMjIvMDUvMjUvMXoxZ2ZnNHN6Zl9kZWZhdWx0LmpwZyJdLFsicCIsInRodW1iIiwiMjQweDIwMCJdXQ?sha=54d3764ea6247e3b "Two distinct registers divide a page in half. At the top, a yellow-orange colored nude jina sits in lotus position upon a three tiered throne [a patterned blue level at the bottom on feet, with an orange section with gold and red decoration and a green level at the top with gold vertical stripes]. He sits against a red background adorned with a pattern of three white dots. The background takes the shape of an elegant cusped arch with a green and white pattern along its outside with a gold pattern at its sides. To the right of the seated figure a nude Digambara monk sits with his legs folded and one knee up on a less elaborate throne with a lota or pot at the corner and a crossed bookstand to the side holding a book with some devanagari writing on it. He raises his right arm and holds his left to his ear.<br />
Placed under a band of curving yellow stripes, the bottom register represents animals in a landscape. At the bottom are clumps of grass with four stylized mountain forms in blue at the right. Above the")
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Sirohi School
Jain Tirthankara and a monk with animal forest scene, no. 12 from a Digambara series
18th century
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Leo S. Figiel and Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Figiel
1975/2.178
Maria Martínez;Julian Martinez (American (North American);Native American)
Pot
1930 – 1940
Gift of Marguerite Novy Lambert in memory of her parents, Frederick G. Novy and Grace Garwood Novy
1991/1.88
Cameroon (Cameroonian)
Ceramic pot with chameleons and lizards
1945 – 1955
Museum purchase
1986/1.156
Steve Keister
Untitled (Cactus)
1998
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the Nation Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services
2008/2.237
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