2006.170.226: Tomb model of a stove with two figures
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.226
- Title
- Tomb model of a stove with two figures
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 南北朝 青瓷竈
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 6th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Northern and Southern Dynasties period, 420-589
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/54917
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Stoneware with celadon glaze
- Technique
- Celadon
- Dimensions
- H. 10.6 x W. 13.5 x D. 11.6 cm (4 3/16 x 5 5/16 x 4 9/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2004] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2004-2006), 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
- 2006.170.226
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Small ceramic sculpture created as a tomb model representing a stove with two figures tending pots and pans; light gray stoneware with yellow green glaze over the exterior and underside. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably southern China.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
(1) Celadon tomb model of virtually the same composition attributed to the Southern Dynasties period excavated in 1979 in Yongxiu county, Jiangxi province, now in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 4: Sanguo, liang Jin, nanbei chao [Three-Kingdoms, Western and Eastern Jin, Northern and Southern dynasties] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 210, pp. 198 and 300.
(2) Celadon tomb model of very similar composition attributed to the Southern Dynasties period in the Shanghai Museum collection. See ibid., no. 209, pp. 198 and 300.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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