1942.185.403: Large Bowl with Five Large Silver Splashes Against a Ground of Silver Oil Spots

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1942.185.403

Title

Large Bowl with Five Large Silver Splashes Against a Ground of Silver Oil Spots

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

12th-13th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shandong province, Zaozhuang-Zibo

Period

Jin dynasty, 1115-1234

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/205532

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide. Probably from the kilns at Zibo, Shandong province.

Dimensions

9.1 x 19.4 cm (3 9/16 x 7 5/8 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

1942.185.403

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. 85, no. 202
• 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. 153-154, no. 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
• The Art of Southern Sung China, Asia House, 04/15/1962

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