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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.273
Title
Miniature tripod bowl
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 唐 絞胎釉陶三足盌
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
8th-9th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Tang dynasty, 618-907
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/191323

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marbled earthenware with amber colored lead glaze
Technique
Marbled
Dimensions
H. 3.9 x Diam. 8.8 cm (1 9/16 x 3 7/16 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
2006.170.273
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Miniature tripod bowl with everted lip, straight sides with raised ridge encircling body, and three tiny cabriole legs; marbled white and brown earthenware with lead-fluxed amber colored glaze, including underside of vessel; unglazed base of feet with some glaze overflow.
Commentary
Compare to:
Small box with similar marbled decoration attributed to the Tang dynasty excavated in 1985 from a steel factory site in the eastern suburbs of Xi’an, Shaanxi province, now in the Shaanxi History Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 15: Shaanxi (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 84.

Publication History

  • Kaikodo Journal, Vol. 11 (Spring 1999), auct. cat., Kaikodo (New York, 1999), no. 58, pp. 188-189 and 306

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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