2000.260: 'Meiping' Bottle with Stylized Floral Decor

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2000.260

Title

'Meiping' Bottle with Stylized Floral Decor

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

13th-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/176972

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Jizhou ware: ivory white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Dimensions

H. 28.4 x Diam. 16 cm (11 3/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Christie's, 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

2000.260

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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. 257-258, no. 105
• Nishida Hiroko and Sato Sâra, "Tenmoku [Dark-glazed ceramics]", Heibonsha Limited (Tokyo, Japan, 1999), p. 128, fig. 79

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