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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.200
Title
Lamp with base in the form of a bear
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 東漢 绿釉陶熊形燈
Classification
Lighting Devices
Work Type
lighting device
Date
1st – 3rd century CE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/185452

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Earthenware with green lead glaze
Technique
Lead glaze
Dimensions
H. 37.8 x Diam. (top) 16.4 cm (14 7/8 x 6 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, December 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), 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
2006.170.200
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Lamp with wide, shallow, straight-sided dish receptacle for oil, raised on a faceted stem with base in the form of a ferocious bear with plump body and humped back seated on a high domed pedestal base; red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald green glaze over molded decoration, the glaze showing silvery iridescence on the surface from burial; the underside of base unglazed.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Green-glazed lamp with base in the form of a bear attributed to the Eastern Han period in the collection of the Shanghai Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 3: Qin, Han [Qin and Han dynasties] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 153, pp. 155 and 269.
(2) Dark green glazed lamp with base in the form of a crouching bear attributed to the Eastern Han period also in the collection of the Shanghai Museum. See Zhongguo meishu quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Art], vol. 34: Taociqi yi [Ceramics, part 1] (Hefei: Huangshan shushe, 2010), 152 (left).

Publication History

  • Ancient China: Jades, Bronzes, & Ceramics, March 24-April 10, 1999, auct. cat., J.J. Lally & Co. (New York, NY, 1999), no. 36

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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