- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2007.132
- Title
- Broad-Shouldered Bottle with Tortoiseshell Glaze
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 12th-14th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Southern Song period (1127-1279) to Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/317419
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Jizhou-type ware, probably Tushan ware: light gray stoneware with variegated brown and amber glazes over a white slip ground, the lower portion of the bottle coated with dark russet slip. Probably from the kilns at Tushan, Sichuan province.
- Dimensions
- H. 20.0 x Diam. 12.4 cm (7 7/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
- Provenance
- [Priestly and Ferraro, London, (by 2003)]. sold; to William B. Goldstein, Wilton, Connecticut. [J.J. Lally & Co.Oriental Art, New York (by 2007), sold; to Harvard University Art Museums.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Peter W. Scheinman and partial purchase through the generosity of The Rubin-Ladd Foundation under the bequest of Ester R. Portnow
- Accession Year
- 2007
- Object Number
- 2007.132
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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