2000.257: Small Tea Bowl with Indented White Lip and Decoration of Crescent Moon and Blossoming Plum Branch

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2000.257

Title

Small Tea Bowl with Indented White Lip and Decoration of Crescent Moon and Blossoming Plum Branch

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

12th-13th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province

Period

Song dynasty, Southern Song period, 1127-1279

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/176963

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Nanfeng ware: light gray stoneware with decoration reserved against the medium brown glaze, the rim and reserved designs with clear glaze over white slip. From the Baishe kilns in Nanfeng county, Jiangxi province

Dimensions

4.9 x 11.7 cm (1 15/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Peter W. Scheinman purchased from J.J. Lally & Co., New York

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

2000.257

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. 85, no. 66
• 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. 267-269, no. 111

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