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Object Number

1940.205

Title

Large, Broad-Shouldered Jar with Decoration of Fish and Aquatic Plants

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

Jiajing period, 1522-1566

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China

Period

Ming dynasty, 1368-1644

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/204508

Medium

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Technique

Overglaze enamel

Dimensions

H. 23.5 x Diam. 24 cm (9 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Samuel C. Davis

Accession Year

1940

Object Number

1940.205

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Fogg Art Museum, The Use of Blue on Chinese Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty 1368-1644, exh. cat., Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 1947), no. 39, cover image

Jessica Chloros, "An Investigation of Cobalt Pigment on Islamic Ceramics at the Harvard Art Museums" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2008), Unpublished, pp. 1-41 passim

Earthly Delights: 6,000 Years of Asian Ceramics, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022

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