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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.95
Title
Dish with Stylized Floral Decor
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
late 9th-10th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shaanxi province, Tongchuan
Period
Tang dynasty, 618-907
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/54474

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Huangpu black-glazed ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze decoratively applied over a thick coat of white slip that covers the interior and that portion of the exterior under the lip. From the Huangpu kiln, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.
Dimensions
H. 3.7 x Diam. 16.7 cm (1 7/16 x 6 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Sotheby's, New York (December 1992, Lot no. 261)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Peter W. Scheinman and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.95
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
From the Huangpu kiln, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.

Publication History

  • Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese brown- and black-glazed ceramics, 400-1400, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 184-186, no. 65

Verification Level

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