1999.230.3: Circular Bowl with Scrolling Lotus Decor on the Interior and with Two Registers of Rising Lotus Petals on the Exterior

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.230.3

Title

Circular Bowl with Scrolling Lotus Decor on the Interior and with Two Registers of Rising Lotus Petals on the Exterior

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

Xuande period, 1426-1435

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

Period

Ming dynasty, 1368-1644

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/188085

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Technique

Blue-and-white ware

Dimensions

H. 10.2 x Diam. 20.4 cm (4 x 8 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Richard Bryant Hobart, Cambridge, MA (by 1949–1963), by inheritance; to Mabel Hobart Wentworth, Washington, DC (1963–1969), sold; through [Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York (12 December 1969); to [J.T. Tai & Co., New York, 1969?], sold; to David Berg, New York (after 1969–1999), bequest; to Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, 1999.

Notes:
1. Richard Bryant Hobart (1885–1963), Harvard College Class of 1906
2. Mabel "Muffie" Hobart Wentworth Brandon Cabot (b. 1936), daughter of Richard Bryant Hobart and Janet Elliott Wulsin (1894–1963)
3. David Berg (1904–1999)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David Berg, Esq.

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.230.3

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Jean Gordon Lee, "An Exhibition of Blue-Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty", Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Autumn 1949), vol. 45, no. 223, pp. 1-72, p. 13, no. 56; illustrated p. 43, no. 55 (images 55 and 56 likely transposed)
• The Richard Bryant Hobart Collection of Oriental Ceramics, Part One, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (New York, 1969), pp. 76-77, no. 129

Exhibition History

• A Decade of Collecting: Asian Acquisitions 1990-1999, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2000 - 11/05/2000
• Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Paintings from China, Korea, and Japan, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/25/2000 - 08/26/2001
• 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
• Downtime, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/28/2007 - 04/20/2008
• Re-View: S228-230 Arts of Asia, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/31/2008 - 06/01/2013

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