2000.259: Bowl with Tortoiseshell Glaze
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2000.259
- Title
- Bowl with Tortoiseshell Glaze
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 12th-14th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Ji’an
- Period
- Southern Song period (1127-1279) to Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/176658
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown and transparent amber glazes. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
- Dimensions
- 6.9 x 17.9 cm (2 11/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Sotheby's, London
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Peter W. Scheinman and partial purchase through the David Berg, Esq., Bequest Fund
- Accession Year
- 2000
- Object Number
- 2000.259
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Jason C. Kuo, Born of Earth and Fire: Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, exh. cat., ed. Jason C. Kuo, Baltimore Museum of Art (College Park, MD, 1992), p. 83, no. 63
- Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese brown- and black-glazed ceramics, 400-1400, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 225-228, no. 87
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