1991.558: Water Dropper in the Form of a Duck Grasping a Braided Lotus Stalk
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.558
- Title
- Water Dropper in the Form of a Duck Grasping a Braided Lotus Stalk
- Classification
- Artists' Tools
- Work Type
- water dropper
- Date
- Colonial or Republican period, 20th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
- Culture
- Korean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/201106
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze
- Technique
- Celadon
- Dimensions
- H. 7.9 x L. 10.5 cm (3 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Gregory (1922-1988) and Maria C. Henderson (1923-2007), Medford, MA (by 1969-1988), inherited; by Maria C. Henderson, Medford, MA (1988-1991), partial gift and partial purchase; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Maria C. Henderson and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.558
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Gregory Henderson, Korean Ceramics: An Art's Variety, exh. cat., Ohio State University, Divisions of Art Gallery (Columbus, Ohio, 1969), p. 40, no. 70
- Edward B. Adams, Korea's Pottery Heritage, Volume II, Seoul International Publishing House (Seoul, Korea, 1989), p. 45, pl. 49; p. 122, no. 49
Verification Level
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