1999.230.6: Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Silvery Brown Hare's-Fur Markings

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.230.6

Title

Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Silvery Brown Hare's-Fur Markings

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

12th-13th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Fujian Province, Jianyang

Period

Song dynasty, 960-1279

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/182450

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip; the lip banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.

Dimensions

H. 7.3 x Diam. 12.7 cm (2 7/8 x 5 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

David Berg, New York (by 1999), bequest; to Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, 1999.

Note:
David Berg (1904–1999)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David Berg, Esq.

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.230.6

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Sadako Ohki, Tea Culture of Japan, exh. cat. (New Haven, 2009), p. 24 & 83/Cat. 7, repr.

Exhibition History

• A Decade of Collecting: Asian Acquisitions 1990-1999, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2000 - 11/05/2000
• Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Paintings from China, Korea, and Japan, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/25/2000 - 08/26/2001
• Rocks, Mountains, Landscapes and Gardens: The Essence of East Asian Painting ('04), Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/31/2004 - 08/01/2004
• A Compelling Legacy: Masterworks of East Asian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/24/2004 - 03/20/2005
• Forging the New: East Asian Painting in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/03/2005 - 10/16/2005
• Downtime, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/28/2007 - 04/20/2008
• Chanoyu: Japanese Tea Culture Past and Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 01/20/2009 - 04/26/2009
• Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/15/2023 - 01/14/2024

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