2006.113: Small Covered Ovoid Jar, the Jar with Short Flaring Neck, the Lightly Domed Cover with Small Lotus-Bud-Shaped Knob

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2006.113

Title

Small Covered Ovoid Jar, the Jar with Short Flaring Neck, the Lightly Domed Cover with Small Lotus-Bud-Shaped Knob

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

early 8th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province, Gongxian

Period

Tang dynasty, 618-907

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/312779

Location

Location

Level 1, Room 1600, Early Chinese Art, Arts of Ancient China from the Bronze Age to the Golden Age

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Physical Descriptions

Medium

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze on the exterior and lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze on the interior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Dimensions

including cover: H. 15.3 x Diam. 14 cm (6 x 5 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[R. H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, 2006] sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of William B. Goldstein, M.D., and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art

Accession Year

2006

Object Number

2006.113

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Thomas W. Lentz, ed., Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2006-7, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2008), p. 12, repr.

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 1600 Early China II, Harvard Art Museums, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050

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