- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2006.170.158
- Title
- Chamber pot in the form of a rabbit
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 漢 灰陶溺器
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1st century BCE – 1st century CE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Han dynasty, 206 BCE-220 CE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/190854
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Gray earthenware
- Dimensions
- H. 19.6 x L. 34.2 x D. 16.3 cm (7 11/16 x 13 7/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
- Provenance
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, July 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through a fund established by Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane for the purchase of Asian art
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.158
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Chamber pot of rounded rectangular form depicting a stylized, open-mouthed rabbit with whiskers and pointed ears, elongated tail curling upward and stretching back to the head to form a handle, and with carved geometric patterning on the body; gray earthenware with incised and impressed decoration.
- Commentary
- Compare to:
Related ceramic chamber pot in the form of a stylized tiger excavated in 1990 from a late Western Han to early Eastern Han period (1st century CE) tomb near Tianzhen County, Datong City, Shanxi province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 9 (2012): 29, fig. 18.
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