2003.107: Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Plum Blosson and Three Phoenixes in Flight

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2003.107

Title

Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Plum Blosson and Three Phoenixes in Flight

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

13th-14th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Ji’an

Period

Southern Song period (1127-1279) to Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/100099

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Dimensions

6.7 x 16.2 cm (2 5/8 x 6 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Peter W. Scheinman purchased from dealer Susan Chen, Hong Kong

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Peter W. Scheinman and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art

Accession Year

2003

Object Number

2003.107

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Frances Klapthor, "Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Peter and Irene Scheinman", Orientations, Orientations Magazine Ltd. (Hong Kong, 1992), vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 53-60, fig. 18
• Jason C. Kuo, Born of Earth and Fire: Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, exh. cat., ed. Jason C. Kuo, Baltimore Museum of Art (College Park, MD, 1992), cat. no. 64

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