2006.170.282: Flask in the form of a leather pouch

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2006.170.282

Title

Flask in the form of a leather pouch

Other Titles

Original Language Title: 遼 緑釉雞冠壺

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

907-1125

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China

Period

Liao dynasty, 907-1125

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/317265

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Earthenware with green lead glaze

Technique

Lead glaze

Dimensions

H. 35 x W. 21.1 x D. 19.8 cm (13 3/4 x 8 5/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, February 1999], sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (by 2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art

Accession Year

2006

Object Number

2006.170.282

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Flask in the form of a leather pouch with cylindrical spout and “cockscomb” crest with small circular perforation; earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze.Flask in the form of a leather pouch with cylindrical spout and “cockscomb” crest with small circular perforation; earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze.

Commentary

Compare to:
(1) Earthenware flask of closely related form with green lead-fluxed glaze excavated in 1982 from a Liao site at Shazigou village, Aohan Banner, Inner Mongolia, now in the Aohan Banner Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 4: Nei Mengu [Inner Mongolia] (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 90.
(2) Earthenware flask of similar form with green lead-fluxed glaze attributed to the Gangwa kiln in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia excavated in 1971 from a Liao tomb at Sijiazi commune, Beipiao county, Liaoning province, now in the Liaoning Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 2: Tianjin Liaoning Jilin Heilongjiang (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 114.

Subjects and Contexts

• Sedgwick Collection

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