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Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Mirror, "Marriage type" (with lobed rim and paired design motifs)
600 – 799
Museum purchase for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1961/2.62
A miniature stove with arched doorway to a square firebox and stepped rear wall.  There is a round pot on top of a burner, and it is covered in a straw-colored glaze.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Stove and Kettle
600 – 632
Gift of the Friends of the Museum of Art and Helen B. Hall
1987/1.355
A small earthenware figure of a duck standing on two feet with head curved down, covered in a straw-colored glaze.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Duck
600 – 632
Gift of Willard A. and Marybelle Bouchard Hanna
1991/2.17
Guanyin is sitting on a decorative chair. She is wearing a robe and a necklace, and her left arm is in front pf her holding a bottle.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
The Bodhisattva Guanyin
19th century
Gift of Willard A. and Marybelle Bouchard Hanna
1991/2.23
Stoneware jar with natural ash glaze and bell-shaped lid. Along the widest horizontal stretch of the base is an incised circle-and-dot design. A variation on this pattern also loops around the lid, topped by a line marking a ring along the surface of the lid, and incised lines extending outward from a button-shaped knob.<br /> <br /> This is a dark gray, high-fired stoneware lidded bowl with a stamped design. The lid features a button-shaped knob at its center. Thinly incised lines encircle the upper part of the lid, dividing its surface into two segments. The inner segment is decorated with a triangular line design, whereas the outer segment is decorated with a design consisting of semicircles with dots inside, which border the inner segment. Sets of two thinly incised horizontal lines run around the section of the bowl immediately below the rim and the lower middle part of the body. A double semicircular design decorates the segment between these two sets of lines. The foot is short and thick and has a fo
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Cinerary urn with triangular circle-and-dot design
7th century
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1973/2.36A&B
This is an earthenware standing figure of a military official or warrior. He wears Tang dynasty styled armor including a helmet, elbow-length gauntlets, a cuirass with plaques, and taces, worn over a long tunic, loose pants, and boots.  His arm is raised to hold a weapon, and he stands on a rock-styled base, which is covered in amber, green, and cream glazes. The head of the figure is unglazed with traces of mineral pigment. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Warrior
667 – 732
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.68
A small, solid gilt bronze image of the Budddha, shown standing in a slighly swayback pose with both right and left hands in vitarka mudra, the gesture ot teaching. His robe is draped over both shoulders and falls in large, symmentrical V-shaped folds in shallow relief over his torso. His head is small, with the canonical snail-shell curls suggested by tiny knobs of bronze. He has full cheeks, a well-defined mouth, and incised slits for his eyes. There are two incised rings at his neck (instead of the canonical three). He stands on a pedestal of upward, double-petal lotus petals, raised on a hollow base. Some turquoise patina is visible on tthe base and head.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Buddha, standing, in vitarka mudra
7th century
Museum purchase for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1964/2.97

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bodhisattva
7th century
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Paul Wang in Memory of Professor Shang-Yi Wang
1985/2.62
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
An earthenware figure of a horse and rider. The horse is standing on all fours on top of a rectangular slab base. It has a trimmed mane and long flowing tail, the male rider sitting tall and wearing a long coat, trousers, a tall cap, and boots. The rider has one hand in a position to hold reins. The figure is covered in a straw-colored glaze.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Horse and Rider
600 – 632
Gift of William Muschenheim
1987/1.149

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

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Standing figure of a monk, in anjalî mudrâ
7th century
Museum purchase for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1961/2.72
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