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A curved teal bowl with a spot of purple on the inside.

A teal colored bowl that is shown standing on a grey background from the side. It has a small foot and curved walls. There is a spot of purple glaze on the inside.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.185.53
Title
Bowl with Angular Walls and Purple Splash
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1279-1368
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province
Period
Yuan dynasty, 1279-1368
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205767

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Splashed Jun ware: coarse gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
Technique
Jun
Dimensions
max.: H. 7.8 × Diam. 18.2 cm (3 1/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
foot: Diam. 6 cm (2 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
1942.185.53
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 61

Subjects and Contexts

  • Jun Ware

Verification Level

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