2007.217: Conical Bowl with Decoration of a Blossoming Plum Branch under Crescent Moon and Clouds

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2007.217

Title

Conical Bowl with Decoration of a Blossoming Plum Branch under Crescent Moon and Clouds

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

12th-14th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Ji’an

Period

Southern Song period (1127-1279) to Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/323282

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Dimensions

H. 4.6 x Diam. 13.5 cm (1 13/16 x 5 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Andrew Kahane--Oriental Art, New York
Diane H. Schafer Collection, New York
American private collection, Pennsylvania (purchased from a Chinese collector in Taiwan in the 1950s)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Mariot Fraser Solomon

Accession Year

2007

Object Number

2007.217

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Conical bowl covered all over, except for the base and small footring, witha chocolate0brown glaze. The inside walls of the bowl feature a spontaneously stylized depiction of a blossoming plum branch under a new moon by which pass small clouds, the designs spontaneously brushed in ash and buff slip atop the glaze before firing.

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