A statuette of a male general sitting on a rock, wearing armor, and holding a weapon with a long shaft in his right hand.

ExpandFavoriteView PDF

Images(5)

General Guan Yu 宜興紫砂關羽像

Artist Fan Zhifeng 范志豐 (Chinese, born 1971)

Date20th century

Place of originJiangsu, Yixing, China, Asia

MediumPottery (I-xing ware)

DimensionsOverall: 5 1/4 x 4 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (13.34 x 12.07 x 5.4 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of Brian A. Dursum

Object number2024.15.7

Collections

ASIAN

Visual DescriptionA statuette of a male general sitting on a rock, wearing armor, and holding a weapon with a long shaft in his right hand.

Discover More

Teapot

Zhou Guizhen 周桂珍

c. 1990

Supported on a straight foot, each of the four lobed sides decorated with an applied archaeistic qilong painted with a purplish-brown slip, two fitted elephant handles suspending loose rings, between keyfret borders at the brass-mounted mouth and foot rims. The Interior and base are applied with white crackled glaze, the body a brownish-red color.

Hexalobed Yixing bowl with applied decoration

Chinese Artist

18th century

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)

Grey bulbous pottery jar, impressed with a fine mesh pattern and applied with 2 S scrolls below the rim.

Vessel

Chinese Artist

Warring States Period, 475-221 BCE

Bowl with slightly rounded bottom curving into wall with slight outward slope and slight flare at rim. Supported by tripod legs formed to resemble animal heads with cranial bulge, protruding eyes at side, tapering to pointy upturned snout with mouth formed by firing slits on sides, rattles inside. Decoration of black bordered red boxes and triangles with jagged "teeth" pointing upward, red and black bands surrounding rim and bottom, with vertical and horizontal lines on legs outlining face circl…

Cayman headed Tripod Bowl

Nicarao Artist

1350-1550

Kame

Japanese Artist

Late Edo period (1615-1868), early 19th century

Tsubo

Japanese Artist

Late Edo period (1615-1868), mid 19th century

Buncheong Dish with Stamped Design
분청사기 인화 국화무늬 접시
粉靑沙器印花文楪匙

Korean Artist 작자미상 作者未詳

Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), 15th century

Head

Mexico, Central Veracruz

900-1200 CE

Hollow buff gray potter figure; red paint around collar of armor and on upper legs and alternating with strips of cream paint on club.

Seated Armored Guardian Figure

West Mexican Artist

1-200

Standing male figure, arms raised, elbows bent, holding a large blade in both hands, wearing long cylindrical armor that extends up behind the head as flaps, with partial rounded crest extending from back towards head, headgear with chin strap; four diamond shapes in white located on upper shoulder region of back armor.

Standing Warrior

Mexican Artist

200 BCE -200 CE

General Grant and Party are Shown Some Florida Products

Frank Hamilton Taylor

1880