- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2006.170.223
- Title
- Circular ink palette with three legs
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 南朝至隋 青銅三足硯
- Classification
- Artists' Tools
- Work Type
- palette
- Date
- 5th-6th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Northern and Southern Dynasties period to Sui dynasty
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/175366
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Stoneware with celadon glaze
- Technique
- Celadon
- Dimensions
- H. 5.5 x Diam. 16.6 cm (2 3/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
- Provenance
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, January 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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 the Acquisition of Oriental Art
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.223
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Wide, circular, dish-shaped ink palette supported on three cabriole legs; light gray stoneware with pale yellow green glaze over the exterior and underside. Place of manufacture uncertain, perhaps southern China.
- Commentary
- Compare to:
Ink palette of related form and similar in size excavated from a Southern Qi tomb dated to 485 at Hejiadawan near Wuchang, Hubei province. See Kaogu [Archaeology] 4 (1965): 176-214, fig. 5.21 and pl. 5.8.
- Related Works
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