Exchange: F19 11/5 Respess HIST 195 Premodern Global Medicine

F19 11/5 Respess HIST 195 Premodern Global Medicine

A blue and white platter. White porcellanous body with painting in blue under a clear glaze slightly tinged with blue-green.

Ali ibn al-Hajj Muhammad
Platter with an inscription from a Hadith [a saying of the Prophet Muhammad], signed by Ali ibn al-Hajj Muhammad
fritware with underglaze painting, and clear glaze
2 15/16 in x 17 ¾ in x 17 ¾ in (7.5 cm x 45.1 cm x 45.1 cm);2 15/16 in (7.5 cm);x 17 ¾ in x 17 ¾ in x 45.1 cm x 45.1 cm
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design

View Object Record

Iranian
Bottle
earthenware with blue glaze
9 1/8 in. x 6 1/4 in. x 6 1/4 in. ( 23.18 cm x 15.88 cm x 15.88 cm )
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design

View Object Record

A small porcelain box with the base and the lid similar in size and shape, being round and shallow with curved sides. The base is on a foot ring, painted with underglaze cobalt blue to depict <em>ruyi </em>(as you wish)<em> lingzhi </em>mushroom-shaped clouds and meander. It is covered in a clear glaze.

Chinese
Box
porcelain with underglaze and glaze
1 7/16 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in (3.65 cm x 6.35 cm x 6.35 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund

View Object Record

Indonesian
Signet Ring
gold
7/8 in x 3/4 in (2.22 cm x 1.91 cm)
Bequest of Frank W. Funk, Jr.

View Object Record

Stoneware jar with flaring foot and high rounded shoulders on a tapered body. It has an everted, flared foot, and short narrow neck covered with a flat lid with conical knob. The top three-quarters of the jar is covered in an amber-colored glaze.

Chinese
Covered Jar
slip on stoneware with glaze
6 3/4 in x 4 7/8 in x 4 7/8 in (17.2 cm x 12.4 cm x 12.4 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Henry Jewett Greene for The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jewett Greene Memorial Collection

View Object Record

A 14th century Mongol period pharmacy jar from the Sultanabad region. The albarello is a contracted cylinder with a converging neck and has a conventionalized inscription with a stag and gazelle design. Floral designs fill the space while the lower body is fluted. All the decorative patterns were done in low relief. Paste is a light tan "Islamic II", while the glaze is glossy with fine crackle. The object was fired upright. Colors include heavy iridescent patina, gray-green, light grayish-white ground and light purplish gray. The object has been restored.

Iranian
Albarello (Pharmacy Jar)
composite ceramic body with gray, blue and black underglaze
5 in. x 10 3/4 in. x 10 3/4 in. ( 12.7 cm x 27.31 cm x 27.31 cm )
Museum purchase

View Object Record

Fukumoto Sekiō
Tea scoop (chashaku)
bamboo
7 1/2 x 1/2 in. (19.05 x 1.27 cm);2 x 9 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. (5.08 x 25.08 x 5.72 cm)

View Object Record

A deep, conical bowl on a straight foot ring with subtle rim articulation, covered in a thickly applied, dark, iron-rich black glaze with silvery-blue hare's fur markings (兔毫盏 <em>tuhao zhan</em>). The thick glaze thins at the rim to a lighter caramel-brown color.

Chinese
Teabowl
stoneware with glaze
2 1/16 in x 4 5/16 in x 4 5/16 in (5.24 cm x 10.95 cm x 10.95 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection

View Object Record

Thin porcelain conical bowl with direct rim on a footring, covered in a white glaze with bluish tinge, the rim is unglazed.

Chinese
Bowl
porcelain with glaze
2 1/16 in x 7 in (5.2 cm x 17.8 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Henry Jewett Greene for The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jewett Greene Memorial Collection

View Object Record

A cover or lid in the form of a pointed cone, resembling a mountain with a pointed top on a circular base. The sides are carved and incised in striated triangular points, and there are eight triangular shaped peircings around the top. It is covered in an olive green glaze, and there is loss to side.

Chinese
Lid to Bo Shan Lu Censor
206 BCE – 25 CE
stoneware, ash glaze |
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1973/2.30

View Object Record

Japanese
Woodblock (from set of 7 woodblocks and 33 sample prints)
wood, ink, paper
( )

View Object Record

Chinese
Sutra Fragment, Yuan-Style Typeface
woodblock print on paper
12 1/4 in. x 6 1/8 in. ( 31.1 cm x 15.5 cm )
Gift of Ellen and Richard Laing

View Object Record

Next 12