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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.185.427
Title
Conical Bowl with Partridge-Feather Mottles
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
late 11th-first half 12th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Northern Song (960-1127) to Jin (1115-1234) period
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205338

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the exterior with russet skin, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide
Dimensions
H. 4.5 × Diam. 16.5 cm (1 3/4 × 6 1/2 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
1942.185.427
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eva Sander, "A Comparative Study of Northern Dark-Glazed Stoneware Bowls from the Song Dynasty" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, August 1987), Unpublished, pp. 1-14 passim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. 140-142, no. 37a

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