2004.31.A-B: Small, Circular, Covered Box, the Domed Cover with Decoration of a Butterfly
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2004.31.A-B
- Title
- Small, Circular, Covered Box, the Domed Cover with Decoration of a Butterfly
- Classification
- Boxes
- Work Type
- box
- Date
- probably 9th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shaanxi province, Tongchuan
- Period
- Tang dynasty, 618-907
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/54860
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Off-white stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration applied in white slip, the decoration embellished with incising and with touches of iron-brown slip in localized areas. Possibly from the Yaozhou kilns, near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
- Dimensions
- including cover: H. 3.4 x Diam. 5 cm (1 5/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Blitz Antiek en Kunsthandel / Blitz Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, The Netherlands
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, David Berg, Esq., Fund and Louis Sidney Thierry Memorial Fund
- Accession Year
- 2004
- Object Number
- 2004.31.A-B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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