2006.170.279: Alms bowl
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.279
- Title
- Alms bowl
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 唐 黑陶缽
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 8th-9th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Tang dynasty, 618-907
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/182524
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Burnished black earthenware
- Technique
- Burnished
- Dimensions
- H. 12.8 x Diam. 23.3 cm (5 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, July 2001] 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
- 2006.170.279
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Large hemispherical bowl with wide mouth, lightly inverted lip, and sides tapering inward to a rounded base—a Buddhist alms bowl (Sanskrit: pātra; Chinese bo); blackened earthenware coated with a slip solution containing clay, carbon, and gypsum and polished to a high gloss after firing.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Alms bowl of closely related form excavated in 1984 from a Tang dynasty tomb on the western hill of Longmen in Luoyang, Henan province. See Luoyang chutu wenwu jisui [Ancient Treasures of Luoyang] (Beijing: Morning Glory Publishers, 1990): no. 95, p. 104-05.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
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Verification Level
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