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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.252.A-B
Title
Small covered box
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 唐 褐釉盒
Classification
Boxes
Work Type
box
Date
9th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shaanxi province, Tongchuan
Period
Tang dynasty, 618-907
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/189159

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Stoneware with brown glaze
Technique
Black-brown glaze
Dimensions
with cover: H. 3.3 x Diam. 5 cm (1 5/16 x 1 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kaikodo, New York, October 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
2006.170.252.A-B
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Small circular box and cover with straight sides, the cover lightly domed; light gray stoneware with dark caramel-brown glaze on the exterior and transparent colorless glaze on the interior; base unglazed. From the Huangpu kilns, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.
Commentary
Compare to:
Dark glazed boxes of similar form attributed to the Tang dynasty excavated from the Huangpu kilns, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province. See Tangdai Huangbao yao zhi [The Tang Dynasty Huangpu Kiln Site] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1992), vol. 2, pl. 45.2.

Publication History

  • Kaikodo Journal, Vol. 12 (Autumn 1999), auct. cat., Kaikodo (New York, 1999), no. 54 (far right), pp. 208-209 and 311-313

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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