2003.101: Ewer with Dished Mouth, Double-Dragon Handle, and Double-Chicken-Headed Spout

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2003.101

Title

Ewer with Dished Mouth, Double-Dragon Handle, and Double-Chicken-Headed Spout

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

late 4th-first half 5th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Zhejiang Province

Period

Jin dynasty, Eastern Jin period, 317-420

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/101796

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown-glazed ware of Yue type: light gray stoneware with mottled medium brown glaze. Probably from the Deqing or Yuhang kilns, Zhejiang province.

Dimensions

H. 25.6 x Diam. 15.9 cm (10 1/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Peter W. Scheinman purchased from dealer Martin Fung, 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

2003.101

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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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. 13
• 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), pp. 52-53, no. 25
• 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. 80-82, no. 1

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