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Gallery Talk: A Closer Look at Funerary Ceramics from the Han Period

Covered tripod vessel, Chinese, Han dynasty, 2nd–1st century BCE. Earthenware with cold painted pigments. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for the Acquisition of Oriental Art, 2006.170.171.

Gallery Talk

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join scientists and conservators for a closer look at a selection of colorful cold-painted Chinese ceramics from Han period tombs.

Our galleries are full of stories—this series of drop-in talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors.

Offered by:
Georgina Rayner, Associate Conservation Scientist, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies
Katherine Eremin, Patricia Cornwall Senior Conservation Scientist, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies
Susan Costello, Associate Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies

Free with museum admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before each talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museum staff will be on hand to collect tickets.