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An earthenware figure of a zoomorphic form consisting of a lion-like body with strong hoofed feet, wings, horns, and a dragon-like face bearing teeth in its open mouth. It is seated on a rock-like base, and covered in amber, green, and cream runny glazes. One of a pair with 2004/2.132.2.
Chinese
Tomb Guardian
675 – 750
earthenware, glaze |
Gift of Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur in memory of Mrs. Wei-Djen D. Lo
2004/2.132.1
An earthenware figure of an anthropomorphic form consisting of a lion-like body with strong hoofed feet, wings, and a human face with central flame-like horns and large, furry and pointed ears. It is seated on a rock-like base, and except for the head it is covered in amber, green, and cream runny glazes. One of a pair with 2004/2.132.1.
Chinese
Tomb Guardian
675 – 750
earthenware, glaze, mineral pigment |
Gift of Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur in memory of Mrs. Wei-Djen D. Lo
2004/2.132.2
Limestone slab carved bas-relief with six registers. The lower register depicts a chariot procession above fish-inhabited waters. The central three registers depict figures carrying out funerary rites. The top register shows a winged creature with a human face flanked by two writhing dragons and other animals, including two rabbits and a nine-tailed fox.
Chinese
Journey of the Soul to the Paradise of the Queen Mother of the West
2nd century
carved limestone slab |
Museum purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art and the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund, in honor of Senior Curator Marshall Wu on his retirement
2000/2.1
Rubbing of limestone slab carved bas-relief with six registers.  The lower register depicts a chariot procession above fish-inhabited waters.  The central three registers depict figures carrying out funerary rites.  The top register shows a winged creature with a human face flanked by two writhing dragons and other animals, including two rabbits and a nine-tailed fox. <br />
Bo Yang
Rubbing of Journey of the Soul to the Paradise of the Queen Mother of the West (2000/2.1) - Front
2008
ink | paper
Museum purchase made possible by the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund
2008/1.154.1
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
Gu (libation goblet, one of a pair with 1948/1.117)
8700 BCE
cast bronze with heavy malachite patina |
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1948/1.118
A large stoneware jar with a slightly tapered body, wide shoulders and a wide flaring mouth.  There are smaller jars stacked on top, getting progressively smaller, topped with a hipped roof mimicking contemporary architectural features and additional architectural features such as towers around the mouth and a plethora of assorted figures, birds, and cosmological animals applied around the top half of the vessel.  It is covered in a grey-green celadon glaze. 
Chinese
Funerary Jar
265 – 317
stoneware, glaze |
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from William and Martha Steen
2000/1.39
square ding (ting) tripod with four legs, the body as well as the upper portion of the four legs is decorated with "t'ao-t'ieh" zoomorphic design. One of the leg was recast after the rest of the body has been completed, thus had a less refined craftmanship and joint line at its base. The double loop handles are also decorated with zoomorphic design. A group of three inscription is cast on the upper portion of the interior wall, which reads as Fu (father) Ji (day name), followed by an symbolic representation of a chariot, possibly a clan emblem. The interior is plain, the animal bone remains attached to the bottom and variations in patina patterns with a line running through the middle indicates that the vessel was once filled with cooked meat offerings, presumably in a Shang elite burial in late second millennium B.C.E.
Chinese
Fang ding (“square tripod” cooking vessel) with taotie mask and gui dragon design
8800 BCE
cast bronze with malachite patina |
Museum purchase for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1961/2.82
This red earthenware model of a pigpen is square, contains one pig at a feeding trough, and has a peaked roof shed to the side. The model is covered in a green lead glaze.
Chinese
Model of a pigpen
25 – 220
earthenware, glaze |
Gift of Domino's Pizza, Inc.
1993/1.75
A red earthenware horse torso sculpture. Its muscular neck holds its narrow head high. The head is vividly sculpted, showing the musculature of the horse's face, flaring nostrils and an open mouth displaying the tongue. It has bulging eyes, ears pointing forward, and a trimmed mane. The body is stocky yet elegantly curved. There is loss to the legs. The horse is covered in white mineral pigment, with a blue flowing mane and cloud scroll on its rump, and red, white, and blue horse trappings and saddle. 
Chinese
Horse Torso
25 – 220
mineral paint, earthenware |
Gift of Ping and Zenobia Lee
UA2005.150
A set of five polychrome glazed male attendants carrying a sedan chair (2001/2.276).  One leads the procession while four carry the chair, all are on a platform. The leader is dressed in long green robes, and is carrying a rectangular box in front of him.  His hands are covered with a tassled scarf, and he is wearing a tall black hat.  His face is painted in polychrome mineral pigments.  The four attendants mirror each other: two on each side, their inside hands holding the sedan, outside hands at their sides, wearing long green robes and tall conical black hats. Their faces are painted with mineral pigments.
Chinese
Five Attendants
1368 – 1644
earthenware, glaze, mineral pigment |
Gift of Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur
2008/2.275.1-5
This is an earthenware miniature table glazed in brown and amber with green legs. Six objects are placed on the table in two rows of three. In the back row is a central <em>ding </em>censer with a green glaze; it is flanked by two two vases with globular bodies and tall straight necks. The front row has a central amber glazed bowl filled with a pig-head. This is flanked by green glazed bowls stacked with flat-shaped, possibly vegetal, offerings. 
Chinese
Altar Table with Six Offerings
1368 – 1644
earthenware, glaze |
Gift of Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur
2008/2.277
Grace Hartigan
Tarzana
oil on canvas
108 in x 108 in x 1 ½ in (274.32 cm x 274.32 cm x 3.81 cm)
Gift of Gertrude and Leonard Kasle

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