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This photograph is a view of a two-storey town house featuring a cast-iron façade and recessed balconies.
Walker Evans (American (North American))
529 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana
1935
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Lunn, Jr., in Honor of the Centennial of The Michigan Daily
1990/2.56
Round base bowl on a tall straight foot ring, covered in a dark brown-black glaze with subtle hare's fur markings (兔毫盏 <em>tuhao zhan</em>).
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Teabowl
960 – 1279
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1964/2.10
This deep, conical bowl rests on a straight foot ring with subtle rim articulation. It is covered in a thickly applied dark iron-rich brown-black glaze with hare's fur or <em>tuhao zhan (兔毫盏 ) </em>markings. The thick glaze pools in one black drip lowering onto the exposed base. The interior surface has a crackle glaze.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Teabowl
1127 – 1279
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1964/2.8
An earthenware figure of a man wears pants and a long coat with tight sleeves and a wide collar belted at the waist. He stands on a square platform with one hand raised. His face has a wide nose, big eyes, and big lips; his hair is pleated down the middle and braided around his head. The coat is colored in amber and green glazes. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Central Asian Groom
618 – 906
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.67
Thin porcelain conical bowl with direct rim on a footring, covered in a white glaze with bluish tinge, the rim is unglazed.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
960 – 1127
Gift of Mrs. Henry Jewett Greene for The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jewett Greene Memorial Collection
1971/2.83
A porcelain hemispherical bowl with direct rim on a footring, the interior base is painted to depict a lion playing with a ball that looks like a coin, surrounded by a flowing ribbon. The bowl is covered in a clear glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
1368 – 1644
Gift of Mr. Jennis R. Galloway through the Friends of the Museum of Art
1972/1.155

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Mirror or relief plaque with scene of Taigong Wang fishing
18th century
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.102
<p>This type of bowl was extensively produced throughout the 12th century. The outer wall is decorated with incised and raised deisgn of a two-tiered lotus petal. The glaze was oxidized, producing yellow-green color, but the application of glaze to the entire foot and the use of quartzite spurs indicate that this was produced as a high-quality item.<br /> [<em>Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art</em> (2014) p.103]</p> It has a wall gently curving from the mouth toward the bottom before angeling in sharply close to the foot. There is a lotus petal on exterior. The color is brown.
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Bowl with carved lotus pattern
12th century
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.78

Marco Dente
Entellus and Dares
1520 – 1525
Museum Purchase
1960/2.132

Konrad Klapheck
Bugeleisen (Iron)
1968
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Clark
1971/1.204
This thin porcelain conical bowl has a direct slightly everted rim on a footring. Its interior has a lightly incised floral meander decoration,and it is covered in a white glaze with bluish tinge.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
1000 – 1132
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1973/2.14
A small, thin, porcelain bowl with an everted, foliate rim, on a foot ring.  It is painted in an underglaze blue decoration of birds and flowers, separated into eight panels on both the interior and exterior, and covered in a clear glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
1573 – 1619
Museum purchase made possible by the Augusta Plumer Weiss Memorial Fund
1977/2.19
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