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Identification and Creation

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 (420-589) to Sui dynasty (581-618)
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/175366

Physical Descriptions

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

Recorded Ownership History
[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

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
2006.170.223
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

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.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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Verification Level

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