- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2006.170.255
- Title
- Animal-form chamber pot (huzi)
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 北齊至隋 黄釉虎子
- 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/182526
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Earthenware with lead fluxed glaze
- Technique
- Lead glaze
- Dimensions
- H. 26.4 x W. 13 x L. 30 cm (10 3/8 x 5 1/8 x 11 13/16 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 a fund established by Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane for the purchase of Asian art
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.255
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Handled chamber pot in the form of an open-mouthed, crouched feline, with cylindrical opening at the mouth, arched handle attached from the top of the animal’s head to its rump, and molded decoration on the body modeled after Sassanian metalwork, including five-point palmettes and beading; buff earthenware with pale yellowish-green lead-fluxed glaze over molded and carved decoration; base unglazed. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably northern China. One of a set of four burial vessels (2006.170.255-258).
- Commentary
- Compare to:
(1) Bronze animal-shaped chamber pot of related 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): 29, fig. 2.
(2) Celadon ewer of different form but with similar molded decoration excavated from the Northern Qi tomb of Lou Rui (dated to 570) in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, now in the Shanxi Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 5: Shanxi (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 16.
- Publication History
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The Chinese Porcelain Company: A Dealer's Record, 1985-2000, auct. cat., The Chinese Porcelain Company (New York, 2000), p. 59
- Related Works
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