2006.170.241.1-2: A Pair of Small Pedestal Dishes
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.241.1-2
- Title
- A Pair of Small Pedestal Dishes
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 隋 白瓷圈足盤 (一對)
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- late 6th early 7th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province
- Period
- Sui dynasty, 581-618
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/320291
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- White stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
- Technique
- White ware
- Dimensions
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2006.170.241.1: H. 6.5 x Diam. 9.5 cm (2 9/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
2006.170.241.2: H. 6.6 x Diam. 9.5 cm (2 5/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Kaikodo, New York, September 1998] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1998-2006), 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
- 2006.170.241.1-2
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- A pair of nearly identical shallow circular dishes, each supported by a slender cylindrical pedestal that flares at the base; underside of each dish gently rounded, with sides rising to a slightly everted rim; white stoneware with transparent glaze faintly tinged with a pale celadon green color; glaze covers entire dish and pedestal down to the foot; underside of pedestal base unglazed. From northern China, possibly from the kilns at Gongyi, Henan province. A pair with 2006.170.241.2.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Celadon pedestal dish of closely related form excavated in 1953 from a Sui period tomb at Mafangshan, Wuchang, Hubei province, now in the Hubei Provincial Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 5: Sui, Tang [Sui and Tang dynasties] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 45, pp. 72 and 230.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
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Verification Level
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