18 UMMA Objects
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Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Malachite ornamental snuff bottle
1912 – 1949
Gift of Mr. Robert W. Coggan
1980/2.42
A malachite snuff bottle with carvings of deer and trees. On the top is a malachite stopper.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Malachite snuff bottle
1912 – 1949
Gift of Mr. Robert W. Coggan
1980/2.50
This work is a depiction of haniwa, clay figures used as tomb burial objects during the Kôfun Period (250–338 CE) that have come to be emblematic of Japanese art and cultural traditions.
Saitō Kiyoshi (Japanese (culture or style))
Clay Image (Q) (highly abstracted haniwa female figure and pot)
1954
Gift of the artist
1958/2.25

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Long Sword
9767 BCE
Museum purchase for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1964/2.87

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Mongolian ivory snuff bottle
1880 – 1930
Gift of Mr. Robert W. Coggan
1980/2.83
Wine drinking goblet or beaker with a wide, trumpet-shaped mouth, narrow, banded waist, and flaring foot. The slender silhouette of the vessel suggests a date towards the end of the Late Shang period. The body is decorated with Tao-tie mask design, divided by the elaborate raised flanges. An inscription is found inside the flaring foot, presumably the name of the person that the vessel is dedicated or the clan emblem.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Gu (libation goblet, one of a pair with 1948/1.118)
8700 BCE
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1948/1.117
Wine drinking goblet or beaker with a wide, trumpet-shaped mouth, narrow, banded waist, and flaring foot. The slender silhouette of the vessel suggests a date towards the end of the Late Shang period. The body is decorated with Tao-tie mask design, divided by the elaborate raised flanges. An inscription is found inside the flaring foot, presumably the name of the person that the vessel is dedicated.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Gu (libation goblet, one of a pair with 1948/1.117)
8700 BCE
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1948/1.118
Two male peacocks in profile face one another at the center. The work has a strong vertical axis, accented by several larger domed and carbochon glass elements. The peacocks stand upon a curling vine-like design of tan tesserae upon a deep blue field of tesserae interspersed with round malachite-colored pieces of glass. The areas behind the peacocks consists of round white and hexagonal tesserae that move from deep blue to a pale tan/green color. At the central vertical axis are several abstract pieces of opaque brown, orange and blue glass.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Peacock Mosaic, from the entrance hall of the Henry O. Havemeyer house, New York
1890 – 1891
University purchase 1930, transferred to the Museum of Art, 1986.146.9
1986.146.9
A circular coconut shell snuff bottle with carved depictions of foliage. On the top is a malachite stopper.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Coconut shell snuff bottle with foliage design
1850 – 1925
Gift of Mr. Robert W. Coggan
1980/2.91
Thinnly cast mirror with narrow rim and bridge-shaped knob, back decorated with interlaces of serpentine and angular meaders, front side polished flat
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Mirror with serpentine interlaces and angular meanders
9701 BCE
Museum Purchase
1958/2.76
ceremonial bronze ge dagger-axe, with pointed blade on one end and zoomorphic tang of stylized bird motif on the other.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Ge (ceremonial dagger-axe)
8700 BCE
Gift in memory of John Carnig Husisian
1996/2.19
A ritual object for use in royal and religious cermonies, this bronze is cast by the lost wax process in the shape of a conch, with an intricately decorated surface. The tripod stand, which may not be of the same date, is has three coiling serpentine legs that end in stylized naga (serpent) heads with cobra-like fans.
Khmer (Khmer (general))
Ritual Conch with Stand
1100 – 1299
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
2003/1.387A&B
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