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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.228
Title
Pedestal dish
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 隋 青瓷高足盤
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
late 6th-early 7th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Sui dynasty, 581-618
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/167603

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Stoneware with celadon glaze
Technique
Celadon
Dimensions
H. 13 x Diam. 31.5 cm (5 1/8 x 12 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2001] sold; 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
2006.170.228
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Shallow circular dish supported by a tall, wide cylindrical pedestal that flares at the base into a sharply defined foot with vertical edge; underside of dish slightly rounded and rises gently up to a rim with beveled edge; lightly stamped and combed geometric decor on floor of dish; light gray stoneware with bluish-green celadon glaze streaked with blue in concentrated areas; glaze covers entire dish and pedestal down to the foot; underside of pedestal unglazed. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably northern China.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Celadon pedestal dish of related form excavated in 2003 from a Sui dynasty tomb at Xiaomintun, Anyang, Henan province. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 12: Henan (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 44.
(2) Celadon pedestal dish of related form attributed to the late Southern Dynasties period (420-589) in the East Zhejiang Museum of Yue Celadon Ware collection. See Beijing daxue Zhongguo kaogu yanjiu zhongxin [Chinese Archaeology Research Center, Peking University], Die cui : Zhedong yueyao qingci bowuguan zang qingci jingpin [Vibrant Greens: Celadon Glazes over Two Millennia: Masterpieces from the East Zhejiang Museum of Yue Celadon Ware] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 2013), no. 65, pp. 336-39.
(3) Celadon pedestal dish of related form attributed to the Sui dynasty in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston collection (accession no. 50.2104).

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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