2006.170.230: Elliptical bottle with dished mouth

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2006.170.230

Title

Elliptical bottle with dished mouth

Other Titles

Original Language Title: 隋 青瓷盤口瓶

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

6th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China

Period

Sui dynasty, 581-618

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/193290

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Technique

Celadon

Dimensions

H. 27 x Diam. 14 cm (10 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Kaikodo, New York, September 1998] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1998-2006), 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

2006.170.230

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Elliptical bottle supported by a short, slightly splayed foot with a flat base; shoulders narrow dramatically to a short, narrow neck topped with a dish-shaped mouth with everted rim; four evenly spaced, parallel horizontal lines encircle the upper portion of the vessel; light gray stoneware with bluish-green celadon glaze that appears blue in concentrated areas; glaze stops well short of the foot; base unglazed. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably northern China.

Commentary

Compare to:
(1) Celadon bottle of related form with similar dished mouth, horizontal linear decor, and blue-streaked glaze dated to the Sui dynasty excavated in Qufu, Shandong province, now in the Shandong Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 5: Sui, Tang [Sui and Tang dynasties] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 25, pp. 56 and 223.
(2) Celadon bottle of similar form and horizontal linear decor, but with rounded cup-shaped mouth dated to the Sui dynasty excavated in 1995 in Xingyang, Henan province, now in the Zhengzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 12: Henan (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 43.
(3) Celadon bottle of closely related form and decor attributed to the Sui dynasty in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, New York (accession no. 2011.394).

Subjects and Contexts

• Sedgwick Collection

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