- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2006.170.256
- Title
- Dished-mouth vessel
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 北齊至隋 黄釉盤口唾盂
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 6th – early 7th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Northern Qi (550-577) to Sui (581-618) dynasty
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/182461
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Earthenware with lead fluxed glaze
- Technique
- Lead glaze
- Dimensions
- H. 16 x Diam. 14.6 cm (6 5/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
- Provenance
- [The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, April 2000] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2000-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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 the Acquisition of Oriental Art
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.256
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Compressed pear-shaped container with dish-shaped mouth, slender cylindrical neck, and body widening toward the base, which rests on a short footring; buff earthenware with pale yellowish-green lead-fluxed glaze that stops short of the foot; base unglazed. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably northern China. One of a set of four burial vessels (2006.170.255-258).
- Commentary
- Compare to:
Celadon vessel of similar form excavated in 1968 from the Northern Qi (550-577) tomb of Cui Ang (dated to 566) in Pingshan, Hebei province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 11 (1973): 27-33, pl. 5.4.
- Related Works
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