1995.3: Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Plum Blossom, Two Butterflies, and Two Phoenixes in Flight

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1995.3

Title

Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Plum Blossom, Two Butterflies, and Two Phoenixes in Flight

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

12th-13th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Ji’an

Period

Song dynasty, 960-1279

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/201011

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Dimensions

5.9 x 11.8 cm (2 5/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Shumei Culture Foundation Fund

Accession Year

1995

Object Number

1995.3

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese brown- and black-glazed ceramics, 400-1400, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 240-243, no. 96

Exhibition History

• A Decade of Collecting: Asian Acquisitions 1990-1999, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2000 - 11/05/2000
• Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Paintings from China, Korea, and Japan, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/25/2000 - 08/26/2001

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