1942.185.423: Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and with Five Large Silver Splashes against a Ground of Silver Oil-Spots
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1942.185.423
- Title
- Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and with Five Large Silver Splashes against a Ground of Silver Oil-Spots
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- probably 12th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shanxi province, Huairen
- Period
- Jin dynasty, 1115-1234
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205527
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion dressed with dark purplish brown slip. Probably from the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 13.6 cm (2 15/16 x 5 3/8 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
- 1942.185.423
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- 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Glaze Analysis" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1992), Unpublished, pp. 1-13 passim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. 150-152, no. 44
Verification Level
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