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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.108
Title
Bottle or Vase with Decoration of Blossoming Plum Branches
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/100181

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Jizhou ware: ivory white stoneware with decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze, the reserved designs covered with clear glaze over slip-painted details, selected details incised through the brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
Dimensions
20.2 x 11.8 cm (7 15/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Christie's, New York, 1 June 1990, lot 161] sold; to Peter W. Scheinman (1990-2003), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

Note:
Peter W. Scheinman (b. 1932 - d. 2017)

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
2003.108
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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), p. 84, no. 65
  • Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese brown- and black-glazed ceramics, 400-1400, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 251-252, no. 102

Verification Level

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