2006.170.235: Jar with floral roundels

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2006.170.235

Title

Jar with floral roundels

Other Titles

Original Language Title: 南北朝至隋 青瓷罐

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

6th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China

Period

Northern and Southern Dynasties period (420-589) to Sui dynasty (581-618)

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/175143

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Technique

Celadon

Dimensions

H. 24.3 x Diam. 22.7 cm (9 9/16 x 8 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Christian Boehm, London, February 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2000-2006), 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

2006.170.235

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Globular jar supported by a short, straight foot with slightly concave base; shoulders taper inward to a short, straight neck with flat mouth rim; Eight double-loop handles encircle the juncture between the neck and shoulders; sixteen molded floral-medallion appliques encircle the shoulders below the loop handles: eight-petal floral appliques alternate with slightly smaller seven-petal forms surrounded by a circle of beads; crimped “piecrust” ridge divides the body into upper and lower halves; light gray stoneware with green celadon glaze primarily on the upper half; lower portion and base unglazed. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably northern China.

Commentary

Compare to:
(1) Celadon jar of closely related form and with similar applique floral roundels excavated in 1982 at Shouxian, Liuan, Anhui province, now in the Anhui Provincial Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 8: Anhui (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 42.
(2) Northern celadon jar of different form but with similar floral medallion appliques attributed to the Northern Qi period (550-577) in the Ashmolean Museum collection, Oxford. See Sheila Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain (London: British Museum, 1991), 58, pl. 42.
(3) Northern celadon jar of different form but with similar floral medallion appliques attributed to the Northern Qi period in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of art collection, Kansas City, Missouri. See Yutaka Mino and Katherine Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987), cat. 38, pp. 108-11.

Subjects and Contexts

• Sedgwick Collection

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