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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1975.47
Title
Bean-Shaped Pillow with Poetic Inscription
Classification
Furnishings
Work Type
headrest
Date
12th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Jin dynasty, 1115-1234
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/202071

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cizhou-type lead-glazed ware: brick-red earthenware with all over coating of white sip, the poem incised and formal borders combed into the white slip ground, all under a lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze
Dimensions
10.5 x 29.5 cm (4 1/8 x 11 5/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of C. Adrian Rübel
Accession Year
1975
Object Number
1975.47
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Yutaka Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., exh. cat., Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indianapolis, 1980), pp.218-219, cat. 97

Verification Level

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