2004.122: 'Meiping' Bottle with Stylized Lotus Decor
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2004.122
- Title
- 'Meiping' Bottle with Stylized Lotus Decor
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 16th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/70471
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Cizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with medium brown glaze over white slip, the decoration incised into the glaze before firing to reveal the white slip. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.
- Dimensions
- 20.2 x 15.2 cm (7 15/16 x 6 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Sotheby's, New York
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
- 2004.122
- 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. 269-271, no. 112
Verification Level
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