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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
This stoneware vessel consists of a bowl and lid. The curved hemispheric lid has a ring-shaped knob in the center and is decorated a lot of dot line design. The hemispheric bowl stands on the low foot with a flat base. This part is also decorated with stamped design.<br /> <br /> This is a dark gray, high-fired stoneware lidded bowl decorated with a stamped design. A ring-shaped knob at the top of the lid is surrounded by vertically aligned dotted designs radiating outwards. The bowl rim is rounded, while two narrowly incised lines surround its widest part, located just below the lip of the rim where the lid rests. Below these lines, the body is stamped with a continuous, vertically aligned, horseshoe pattern. The short and broad horseshoe motif conveys a sense of stability. <p>[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 78]</p>
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Cinerary Urn or Reliquary with stamped "fish scale" designs
600 – 799
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.204A&B
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
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
An earthenware figure of a kneeling woman wearing a long dress with an empire waist, her hair coiffed high upon her head, and arms raised as if once holding something.  It is covered in white slip and polychrome mineral pigment. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Kneeling Woman
600 – 632
Gift of Willard A. and Marybelle Bouchard Hanna
1991/2.16
Bronze mirror with one side polished flat, and the other side decorated with mystical animals for cardinal orientation and twelve zodiac animals.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Mirror, "Animal cycle type" (Ssu-ling shih-er hsiao: 4 spirits and 12 zodiacs)
7th century
The Oliver J. Todd Memorial Collection
1974/1.180
This is an earthenware model of a horse dressed in a saddle blanket and saddle. It has a short, upward pointing tail and trimmed mane. The saddle is painted with reddish mineral pigment. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Horse
667 – 732
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.62

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Buddhist Bronze, Kuan Yin
667 – 699
Museum purchase for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1964/2.95
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