Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.240: Long-necked Bottle Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Long-necked Bottle , 2006.170.240,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/169025. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.240 Title Long-necked Bottle Other Titles Original Language Title: 唐 白瓷長頸瓶 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 7th century Places Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province Period Tang dynasty, 618-907 Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/169025 Physical Descriptions Medium White stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green Technique Celadon Dimensions H. 24.3 x Diam. 11.3 cm (9 9/16 x 4 7/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [S. Marchant & Son, London, July 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 2006.170.240 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Silver-form long-necked bottle with flared mouth, ovoid body, tall conical foot, and flat base; white stoneware with transparent celadon-green-tinted glaze; base unglazed. From northern China, possibly Henan province. Commentary Compare to (1) White ware bottle of closely related form dating to the Tang period excavated in 2000 from the underground vault of Fawang Temple, Dengfeng, Henan province, now in the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 12: Henan (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 85. (2) White ware bottle of related form purportedly made at the Xing kilns, Henan province, excavated in 1990 from a Tang period site at Shaolingyuan, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, now in the Shaanxi History Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 15: Shaanxi (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 67. (3) Slightly smaller white ware bottle of nearly identical form attributed to the early Tang period (7th century) in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco collection (accession no. B60P2073). See He Li, Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), no. 133, pp. 89 and 119. Subjects and Contexts Sedgwick Collection Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
