- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2006.170.258.A-B
- Title
- Covered jar with lotus-petal decor
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 北齊至隋 黄釉罐
- 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/182528
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Earthenware with lead fluxed glaze
- Technique
- Lead glaze
- Dimensions
- H. 18.6 x Diam. 15.5 cm (7 5/16 x 6 1/8 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
- 2006.170.258.A-B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Covered globular jar with short neck, carved decoration of descending lotus petals with flared tips projecting outward at midpoint of body, short, flat circular foot, and four pierced square lug handles encircling the shoulder; the slightly domed cover with knob in the form of a lotus bud; buff earthenware with pale yellowish-green lead-fluxed glaze over carved and incised decoration; base mostly unglazed, with some glaze overflow. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably northern China.
- Commentary
- Compare to:
Celadon covered jar of very 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. 5.2.
- Related Works
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