57 UMMA Objects
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This work portrays a human profile.
Saitō Kiyoshi (Japanese (culture or style))
Coral
1955
Gift of the artist
1958/2.17

Italian
Silk Brocade
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1955/1.215
An agate snuff bottle with a silver collar and coral stopper.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Agate snuff bottle
1800 – 1880
Gift of Mr. Robert W. Coggan
1980/2.24
A glass snuff bottle, brown with gold specks, in the shape of the Buddha's Hand fruit. On the top is a turquoise collar with a coral stopper in the shape of a stem.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Glass snuff bottle
1912 – 1949
Gift of Mr. Robert W. Coggan
1980/2.49
A coral snuff bottle with dragons among the clouds. On top is a coral stopper.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Coral ornamental snuff bottle with dragons among clouds
1912 – 1949
Gift of Mr. Robert W. Coggan
1980/2.52

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Coral snuff bottle
1912 – 1949
Gift of Mr. Robert W. Coggan
1980/2.55
Black pain-weave satin interwoven with silk threads in light purple, rust, coral, maize, chartreuse, red, white, and ultramarine, and metallic threads in three shades of gold.  The hexagonal shapes are definied by a weft of gold-coated paper (kinran) in pale greenish gold; the gold threads used in the medallions are wrapped.  Inside each medallion is a phoenix design among a floral scroll.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Maru obi with woven designs of hexagonal medallions with phoenixes among floral scrolls
1933 – 1966
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2005/1.345

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Glass snuff bottle
1825 – 1900
Gift of Mr. Robert W. Coggan
1980/2.147
A porcelain snuff bottle with images of luohan (Buddhist sages, arhats) carved in high relief.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Snuff bottle with design of luohan (Buddhist sages, arhats)
1796 – 1850
Gift of Mr. Robert W. Coggan
1980/2.122
Polychrome woodblock print of a rooster holding a praying mantis in its mouth with four characters at top center framed by a floral scrolling border
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
The Rooster Protects the House from Suzhou
20th century
Gift of Ellen and Richard Laing
2006/2.47
A miniature stupa, cast of bronze in several parts, consisting of a bell-shaped base; an inverted cone-shaped tower, capped by an "umbrella" with pendant, fringe-like decoration, inlaid with semi-percious stone, surmounted by a lotus bud. Atop the whole structure is a half-moon and sun disk motif, supported by intertwined ribbons and culminating in another lotus bud.
Kadampa Stupa
13th century
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
2003/1.386
A blue and white snuff bottle in the shape of a vase with a long neck. It is stylized with floral patterns and has a brass collar and coral stopper.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Snuff bottle in the shape of a vase, with stylized floral patterns
1825 – 1900
Gift of Mr. Robert W. Coggan
1980/2.130
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