2006.170.250.A-B: Small covered jar

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2006.170.250.A-B

Title

Small covered jar

Other Titles

Original Language Title: 隋 褐釉小罐

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

circa 600

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Hunan province, Changsha

Period

Sui dynasty, 581-618

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/148472

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Stoneware with brown glaze

Technique

Black-brown glaze

Dimensions

with cover: H. 7.4 x Diam. 10 cm (2 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Mathias Komor, New York (by February 1945)], sold; to Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk Jr. Collection, New York (February 1945-2001), sold; through [Christie's, New York, 15 October 2001, lot. 5]; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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 Asian Art

Accession Year

2006

Object Number

2006.170.250.A-B

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Small compressed globular jar with flat lid, the jar with short straight neck, six double-loop handles encircling the shoulder at the base of the neck, and resting on a short footring with straight sides, the lid with matching double-loop handle on top; stylized floral decoration on the body of the jar and on top of the lid; light gray stoneware with caramel-hued brown glaze over stamped and incised decoration. From Changsha, Hunan province.

Commentary

Compare to:
Brown glazed box with closely related stamped decoration and similar glaze attributed to the Sui dynasty excavated in 1957 from Changsha, Hunan province, now in the Hunan Provincial Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 5: Sui, Tang [Sui and Tang dynasties] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 46, pp. 73 and 230.

Publication History

• Yutaka Mino, Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon, exh. cat., Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indianapolis, 1986), pp. 112-113, no. 39
• The Falk Collection I: Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, September 20, 2001), lot 5

Subjects and Contexts

• Sedgwick Collection

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