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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.185.61
Title
Large Basin with Flaring Lip and Flat Floor
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
probably 15th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province
Period
Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205356

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Numbered-Jun-type ware: light gray stonware with variegated lavender-blue glaze, the glaze shading to olive brown where thin
Technique
Jun
Dimensions
max.: H. 11.6 × Diam. 34.5 cm (4 9/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
base: Diam. 20.9 cm (8 1/4 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
1942.185.61
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. 72, no. 128
  • Koyama Fujio, ed., Chinese Ceramics: One Hundred Selected Masterpieces from Collections in Japan, England, France, and America, exh. cat. (Tokyo, 1960), plate 45; p. 34, fig. 32; p. 46

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
  • Chinese Ceramics: One Hundred Selected Masterpieces from Collections in Japan, England, France, and America, The Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo

Subjects and Contexts

  • Jun Ware

Verification Level

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