1942.185.383: Small Circular Offering Dish with Three Clawed-Cabriole Legs and with Stylized Lotus and Goose-in-Flight Decor

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1942.185.383

Title

Small Circular Offering Dish with Three Clawed-Cabriole Legs and with Stylized Lotus and Goose-in-Flight Decor

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

first half 8th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province

Period

Tang dynasty, 618-907

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/205539

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Dimensions

H. 4.8 x Diam. 18.5 cm (1 7/8 x 7 5/16 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

1942.185.383

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Illustrated Catalogue of an Exhibition of Oriental Art Treasures ; exhibited at the Yamanaka gallery, Boston, Mass., Dec., 1916, auct. cat., Yamanaka & Co. (Boston, Mass., 1916), p. 9, no. 12 (illustrated in color, frontispiece)
• Mount Holyoke Friends of Art, Chinese Art: A Loan Exhibition Presented by the Mount Holyoke Friends of Art in honor of the John Martyn Warbeke Fund for Oriental Art, exh. cat. (1960), cat. 54

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