1942.185.428: Conical Bowl with Partridge-Feather Mottles

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1942.185.428

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/205339

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. 4.9 × Diam. 16.3 cm (1 15/16 × 6 7/16 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

1942.185.428

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 85, no. 201
• 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. 37b

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

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