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Grey bulbous pottery jar, impressed with a fine mesh pattern and applied with 2 S scrolls below the rim.
Vessel
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Vessel

Artist Chinese Artist
DateWarring States Period, 475-221 BCE
Place of originChina
Mediumpottery
Dimensions3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (9.5 x 9.5 cm)
ClassificationsFurnishings and Equipment
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the David A. Cofrin Fund for Asian Art
Object number2015.19.4
Collections
Visual DescriptionGrey bulbous pottery jar, impressed with a fine mesh pattern and applied with 2 S scrolls below the rim.
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Chinese Artist
18th century
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Rounded Jar
Maya Artist
700-850
Set on a wooden mount (20th century), the massive pottery head of a Luohan with cream glaze suggesting skin tone and green glaze suggesting hair. Massive proportions of head and ears suggest figure was originally part of a larger-than-life-size sculpture.
Head of Luohan
Chinese Artist
Liao Dynasty (907-1125)
Period VI; brown ware with appliqued figure. Small jar with wide, rounded base, slight concavity in middle - sharp curve up into wall that curves gradually inward - straight vertical raised rim, extending up to point on one side - hole in wall, 2/3 height, with raised broken area surrounding it, possible spout or handle. Brown ware with traces of buff slip - applied effigy face on raised point of rim - circles for eyes, ridge with small poked nostrils for nose, ridges for upper and lower lips …
Small Jar with Effigy
Diquis Artist
800-1550
A lidded teapot with a handle imitating bamboo branch.
Teapot
Zhou Guizhen 周桂珍
c. 1990
A fine cloisonné enamel vase of globular bottle form with a cylindrical neck and low gilt foot rim, decorated with ruyi-head lappets at the foot and around the shoulder; the body decorated with formalized lotus flowers, leaves and stems; the neck decorated with flowers above tall leaf-form lappets; all enameled in red, yellow, white, lapis blue, light and dark green, and aubergine on a turquoise ground.
Miniature Bottle Vase
Chinese Artist
18th Century
Guinea engraved, orange brown ware; small pot with spherical bottom supported on a raised footed ring flaring out at bottom with rounded edge, wall curves outward to 1/2 height large raised ridge, wall indents inward, runs up with slight inward slope, flat outward facing ring; brown ware with red slip, incised rings on rim with clusters of four vertical lines at edge, small incised notched around rim and ridge, two panels on upper walls, bordered with incised lines with angular "S" pattern, foot…
Small Footed Pot
Costa Rican Artist
300-500
Small, grey-green ceramic jar with a round, bulbous body. It features a short neck with a rolled rim and two small, looped handles attached at the shoulder.
Small Celadon Jar
Chinese Artist
Song (960-1279) or Yuan dynasty (1271-1368), c. 13th-14th century
Axe with wood handle surmounted by bronze feline head and crescent shaped blade flanked by scrolls and joined to handle by fine undulating strands
Scepter
Fon Artist
19th Century
Globular jar with hemispherical bottom curving up into wall at 2/3 height is a wide indented groove with wall continuing at an inward slope to long neck. 2 raised rings with notches at base of neck and center of upper wall, wide raised ridge below rim. Grey ware with black slip, 2 small nubbins opposite each other on wall just above wide indented groove groups of incised lines, in opposing diagonals on rim.
Globular Jar
Costa Rican Artist
1200-1550
Large globular jar with hemispherical bottom curving up into wall beginning to curve inwards at half height, raised ridge at 3/4 height forms angel break, inward slope of wall to raised neck with stepped rim 2 raised rings with notched below neck, another larger ring below stepped rim. grey ware with black slip figure head attached at angle break somewhat lopsided, modeled ears, large forehead, small donut eyes, pointy snout (possibly monkey) 3 small nubbins on the quadrants of angle breaks wi…
Large globular jar
Costa Rican Artist
1200-1550
Small pot with flat base - wall rises with outward slope to two thirds height, curves inward to rounded rim - interior is smooth with flat bottom - slightly lopsided. Buff ware with black pigment painted in fluid, swirling lines of varying width, forming scrolls, circles, connecting straight lines - not distinguishable into pattern.
Small Bowl
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