2006.170.285: Rectangular Pillow with Basket-Weave Décor
Furnishings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.285
- Title
- Rectangular Pillow with Basket-Weave Décor
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 金 三彩印紋枕
- Classification
- Furnishings
- Work Type
- headrest
- Date
- 1115-1234
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Jin dynasty, 1115-1234
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/317266
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Earthenware with amber colored lead glaze
- Technique
- Lead glaze
- Dimensions
- H. 11 x L. 17.8 x D. 10.3 cm (4 5/16 x 7 x 4 1/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J.J. Lally & Co., 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 Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.285
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Ceramic pillow of waisted quadrangular form, molded on four sides with a basket-weave pattern, the flat ends stamped with dotted star-like diaper pattern; pinkish buff earthenware with lead-fluxed amber-yellow glaze over molded decoration.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Sancai pillow of the identical form, similar molded decoration, and similar glaze but with touches of green excavated in 1984 from a Jin-dynasty site in Boshan district, Zibo, Shandong province, now in the Huantai County Museum, Shandong. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 6: Shandong (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 162.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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