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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.220
Title
Vase with dished mouth
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 南北朝 青瓷盤口壺
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
6th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Northern and Southern Dynasties period, 420-589
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/182443

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Stoneware with celadon glaze
Technique
Celadon
Dimensions
H. 30.9 x Diam. 22.1 cm (12 3/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Christian Boehm, London, March 2000] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2000-2006), 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
2006.170.220
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Vessel with dish-shaped mouth, long neck, globular body, and slightly splayed foot; two horizontal ridges encircle the neck and one encircles the shoulder; four square lug handles are evenly spaced around the shoulder; light gray stoneware with bluish-green celadon glaze; glaze stops short of the foot; base unglazed. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably northern ware.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Celadon vase of very similar form excavated in 1995 from a Sui-dynasty (581-618) site at Longju village, Dangtu county, Ma’anshan, Anhui province, now in the Dangtu Office for the Management of Cultural Relics. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 8: Anhui (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 52.
(2) Celadon vessel of very similar form attributed to the first half sixth century in Cincinnati Museum collection. See Yutaka Mino and Katherine Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987), cat. 37, pp. 106-107.
(3) Celadon vessel of similar form excavated from an Eastern Wei (534-550) tomb at Xiaomachang, Wuqiaoxian, Hebei province. See Hebeisheng chutu wenwu xuanji (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1980), no. 312.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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