2004.121: 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

Permissions

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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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