2006.170.240: Long-necked Bottle

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

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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

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