2006.170.249.A-B: Small covered box
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.249.A-B
- Title
- Small covered box
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 唐 白瓷盒
- Classification
- Boxes
- Work Type
- box
- Date
- 8th-9th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Tang dynasty, 618-907
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/176273
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- White stoneware with ivory hued glaze
- Technique
- White ware
- Dimensions
- with cover: H. 4.8 x Diam. 8.5 cm (1 7/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Kaikodo, 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
- 2006.170.249.A-B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Small circular covered box with straight sides and angled perimeters; white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze on exterior and interior; base unglazed. From northern China, probably from Hebei or Henan province.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Small white ware box of closely related form excavated in 1989 from a late Tang-dynasty tomb at Beizhai village, Jingxing mining district, Hebei province, now in the Shijiazhuang Museum, Hebei. Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 3: Hebei (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 48.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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