2006.170.220: Vase with dished mouth

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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