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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.243
Title
Pilgrim flask
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 隋至唐 白瓷扁壺
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
7th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Sui (581-618) to Tang (618-907) dynasty
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/173623

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
Technique
White ware
Dimensions
H. 19.2 x W. 17.6 x D. 10 cm (7 9/16 x 6 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Christian Boehm, London, May 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 Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.170.243
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Flask with short cylindrical neck, round body with flattened front and back supported on an oval footring, and with two square lug handles on the shoulder; white stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with pale celadon green. From northern China, probably from Hebei or Henan province.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) White ware pilgrim flask of similar shape excavated from a Tang dynasty (618-907) tomb in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, now in the Xi’an Municipal Institute of Archaeology and the Preservation of Cultural Relics. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 15: Shaanxi (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 45.
(2) Green glass flask of closely related shape from the tomb of Li Jingxun (600-608) in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, now in the collection of the Museum of Chinese History, Beijing. See Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan kaogu yanjiusuo [Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences], Kaogu jinghua Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan kaogu yanjiusuo jiansuo sishinian jinian [Select Archaeological Finds, Album to the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences] (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 1993), 297, fig. 245.3.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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