2006.170.245: Cuspidor
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.245
- Title
- Cuspidor
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 唐 白瓷唾盂
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 9th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Hebei province, Quyang
- Period
- Tang dynasty, 618-907
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/185759
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory hued glaze
- Technique
- White ware
- Dimensions
- H. 11.7 x Diam. 15.2 cm (4 5/8 x 6 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Blitz Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 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
- 2006.170.245
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Compressed pear-shaped receptacle supported on a short, wide footring, the upper portion in the form of a conical bowl, with small circular opening at the juncture between the upper and lower halves; porcelaneous white stoneware with lustrous ivory-hued glaze. Probably from the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
(1) White ware cuspidor of similar shape, purportedly made at the Xing kilns, Henan province, was excavated in 1955 from a Tang-dynasty tomb at Wangjiafen, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, now in the Shaanxi History Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 15: Shaanxi (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 50.
(2) Black ware cuspidor of similar shape and approximate size was excavated in 1955 from a Tang dynasty tomb in the eastern suburbs of Xi’an, Shaanxi province, now in the Shaanxi History Museum. See ibid., no. 85.
Exhibition History
- Plum, Orchid, Chrysanthemum, and Bamboo: Botanical Motifs and Symbols in East Asian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 07/06/2002 - 01/05/2003
- Earthly Delights: 6,000 Years of Asian Ceramics, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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