Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Butterfly, a Stylized Flower, and Two Phoenixes in Flight

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2004.121
Title: Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Butterfly, a Stylized Flower, and Two Phoenixes in Flight
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/64559

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
Dimensions: 4.5 x 11.6 cm (1 3/4 x 4 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Sotheby's or Christie's, New York or London

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: 2004
Object Number: 2004.121
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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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. 238-240, no. 95

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