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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.185.404
Title
Bowl with Underfired Black Glaze
Other Titles
Former Title: Bowl with Tea-Dust Glaze
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
probably late 11th-early 12th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Hebei province, Quyang
Period
Song dynasty, Northern Song period, 960-1127
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205533

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Underfired Black Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with brownish green, tea-dust-like glaze. Probably from the kilns at Jianci village, possibly from those at East or West Yanchuan village, Quyang county, Hebei province.
Dimensions
H. 5.7 x Diam. 18.4 cm (2 1/4 x 7 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
1942.185.404
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Dynasty" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, August 1987), Unpublished, pp. 1-14 passim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. 115-116, no. 18

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