2006.170.242.6: Circular tray with three ring-form feet
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.242.6
- Title
- Circular tray with three ring-form feet
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 隋至唐 白瓷三環足盤
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- late 6th-early 7th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Sui (581-618) to Tang (618-907) dynasty
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/186745
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- White stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
- Technique
- White ware
- Dimensions
- H. 5.8 x Diam. 25.8 cm (2 5/16 x 10 3/16 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
- 2006.170.242.6
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Large circular tray with short, gently rounded sides and three ring-form feet attached to the base at equidistant intervals; white porcelain with transparent glaze tinged with pale celadon green; center of tray base unglazed. From northern China; Hebei or Henan province. Part of a set comprising five cups and a circular tray (2006.170.1-6).
- Commentary
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Compare to:
White ware circular tray of similar form but with four circular feet excavated from the tomb of Sui Dynasty (581-618) General Zhang Sheng (d. 595) in Anyang, Henan province, now in the Henan Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 12: Henan (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 29.
Exhibition History
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
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Verification Level
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