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The globular teapot is modelled in the form of a pomegranate applied with fruits and nuts. It has a water-chestnut-form handle and a lotus shoot-form spout that is impressed with two seals. The cover is fashioned as a mushroom. The stoneware is of a speckled beige-brown colour.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Yixing Ware Tea Pot
1875 – 1925
Gift of Stephen H. and Patricia O. Spurr from the Henry Jewett Greene Collection
2000/1.29A&B
This is an unglazed stoneware bizen jar fired in a wood-burning kiln.<br /> It has a hard, smooth surface with decorative incisions near the top of the jar. The lower portion has effect of color gradation of reds and browns. The lid seems to dip into the jar, and has a know handle. The entire piece is not perfectly formed, but has an organic aesthetic.
Kaneshige Tôyô
Bizen ware water jar with lid (mizusashi)
1950 – 1963
Museum Purchase
1963/2.72A&B
A nearly flat, large, shallow stoneware dish, the interior with a delicately incised floral scroll pattern, and the upturmed rim adorned with robustly modelled lotus petals, all on a broad and secure foot.
Annam;Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
Shallow dish with incised floral medallions and molded lotus petals
16th century
Gift of Helmut Stern
1991/1.98
A loosely wheel-thrown, gray stoneware, unglazed vase of <em>meiping</em> (梅瓶) form, tall and tapered with coarse inclusions. The vase has wide shoulders and a narrow mouth with a small neck. Uneven contour and visible throwing lines leave a ribbed surface, showing kiln effects. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Vase
14th century
Gift of Gail and Jonathan Holstein
1985/2.130
This is a broken gray dish with a flat bottom and a short rim, it has many dents.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Flat-bottomed dish with shallow rim: broken fragment
6000 BCE
Museum Purchase
1940.417
A loosely wheel-thrown, gray stoneware, unglazed vase of <em>meiping</em> (梅瓶) form, tall and tapered with coarse inclusions. It has wide shoulders and a narrow mouth with a small neck. Uneven contour and visible throwing lines leave a ribbed surface, showing kiln effects. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Vase
14th century
Gift of Gail and Jonathan Holstein.
1985/2.128
A loosely wheel-thrown, gray stoneware, unglazed vase of <em>meiping</em> (梅瓶) form, tall and tapered with coarse inclusions. The vase has wide shoulders and a narrow mouth, with a small neck. Uneven contour and visible throwing lines leave a ribbed surface, showing kiln effects. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Vase
14th century
Gift of Gail and Jonathan Holstein
1985/2.129
A loosely wheel-thrown, gray stoneware, unglazed vase of <em>meiping</em> (梅瓶) form, tall and tapered, with coarse inclusions. The vase has wide shoulders and a narrow mouth with a small neck. Uneven contour and visible throwing lines leave a ribbed surface, showing kiln effects. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Vase
14th century
Gift of Gail and Jonathan Holstein
1985/2.131

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Round Shallow Dish??
Museum Purchase
1940.418
It is a urinal earthware. There is a everted mouth on the round body. It is unglazed.<br /> <br /> This is a gray, turtle-shaped, low-fired earthenware bottle. The neck is attached to one end of the body, rising outwards before flaring out once again. Its rim is round. The inner surface of the neck and the lower part of the body show signs of rotation and water smoothing. The bottom of the bottle is rounded. <p>[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 77]</p>
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Turtle-shaped Bottle
500 – 699
Gift of Estelle Titiev, from the collection of Mischa Titiev
1984/2.8
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