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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.185.452
Title
Long-Necked, Pear-Shaped Bottle with Decoration of Two Stylized Birds in Flight
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
late 12th-first half 13th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Jin dynasty, 1115-1234
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205073

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the russet decoration painted in overglaze iron oxide
Dimensions
30.5 x 16 cm (12 x 6 5/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.185.452
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Henry Trubner, Chinese Ceramics, from the prehistoric period through Ch'ien Lung: a loan exhibition from collections in America and Japan, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, CA, 1952), p. 86, no. 208
  • Max Loehr, Chinese Art: Symbols and Images, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, 1967), pp. 45-46, no. 25
  • Carol Warner, "Black Ware Bowls of the Northern Song Period Glaze Analysis" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1992), Unpublished, pp. 1-13 passim
  • 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. 159-161, no. 52

Exhibition History

  • Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, 03/14/1952 - 04/27/1952
  • The Art of Southern Sung China, Asia House, 04/15/1962

Verification Level

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