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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

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Sueki ware hasô
567 – 699
Museum Purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
2002/1.231
A small, thin, earthenware molded plaque with a bas-relief architectural scene of a Chinese three-bay building on a dais. There are two slat windows and a hipped roof. A figure stands in the central doorway. The plaque is covered in a white slip.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Temple with Buddha Votive Plaque
550 – 650
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1964/2.21
A medium size, well potted porcelain jar with wooden rid, round shoulder and neck. Floral designs are painted with blue underglaze and red and gold overglaze enamels. There are Chinese scholar and attendant boy with a fan on one side and Japanese lady in kimono on the opposite side, painted with enamels. Band of flowers on the neck, another broader band of chrysanthemums on the shoulder. There is also a band of leaf patterns on the bottom. A large crack from neck to the middle of the body; porcelain glaze has small cracks all over the body. The foot is unglazed; the eye is fully glazed. No glaze on the rim. The teak wood lid, a later addition, has a finial made of an ivory netsuke of laughing Hotei.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Covered jar with design of flower maiden, sage, and child amidst flowering plants
1645 – 1655
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.72A&B
This grayish-blue stoneware jar has a globular body and short, a little flared neck. The surface of the body is adorned with a wave design and encircled with two thin incised lines. The base is flat.<br /> <br /> This is a dark gray, bottle-shaped, high-fired stoneware vessel. Its short neck briefly slopes inwards and smoothly connects to a mouth that curves outwards. The rim is slightly rounded. The body is widest at its middle, which is surrounded by two thin incised lines with a wave design in between. The base is flat, without a foot, but has raised edges. <p>[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 76]<br /> &nbsp;</p>
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Small Storage Jar
500 – 699
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.171
It is a urinal earthware. There is a everted mouth on the round body. It is unglazed.<br /> <br /> This is a gray, turtle-shaped, low-fired earthenware bottle. The neck is attached to one end of the body, rising outwards before flaring out once again. Its rim is round. The inner surface of the neck and the lower part of the body show signs of rotation and water smoothing. The bottom of the bottle is rounded. <p>[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 77]</p>
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Turtle-shaped Bottle
500 – 699
Gift of Estelle Titiev, from the collection of Mischa Titiev
1984/2.8
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