1940.225: Circular Bowl with Lightly Flaring Lip and Decoration of Blossoming Plum Branches and Birds
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1940.225
- Title
- Circular Bowl with Lightly Flaring Lip and Decoration of Blossoming Plum Branches and Birds
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- probably 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Meiji era, 1868-1912
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204516
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, with relief plub blossoms touched on in white slip and embellished with pale celadon glaze, the background with overglaze yellow enamel; with spurious mark underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
- Dimensions
- H. 8.6 x Diam. 22.6 cm (3 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: spurious: Da Ming Xuande nian zhi
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Samuel C. Davis
- Accession Year
- 1940
- Object Number
- 1940.225
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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