2006.170.287: Dish with fish decor
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.287
- Title
- Dish with fish decor
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 金 三彩碟
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 12th-early 13th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Jin dynasty, 1115-1234
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/190218
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Cizhou-type ware: earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze
- Technique
- Lead glaze
- Dimensions
- H. 2.4 x Diam. 13.2 cm (15/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: brush-written in black ink on base:: 魏十一
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, November 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
- 2006.170.287
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Small shallow circular dish with decoration of a fish surrounded by a lotus and water weeds incised on the center floor; buff earthenware with yellow, aubergine, and green lead-fluxed glazes over a white slip ground; with inscription reading 魏十一 (Wei shiyi; “Wei eleven”) brush written in black ink on the unglazed base after firing.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Sancai dish of nearly identical form and color palette in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 9: Liao, Xi Xia, Jin [Liao, Xi Xia, and Jin dynasties] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 229, pp. 237 and 317.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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