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A pale green tray on a stand with a cup rising from its center

A circular tray glazed in a glossy pale grey-green, is symmetrically notched around the outer edge, to resemble a flower shape. It is supported beneath by a circular base that is also segmented like flower petals, widening at the base and narrowing in a truncated cone that continues up through the center of the tray where it is ringed with a pattern of carved lotus leaves. Here it forms the base of a cup that rises from the tray’s center whose sides are also stylized flower petals. The sides feature a floral decoration in flowing darker green lines.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.548
Title
Foliated Cup and Cup Stand with Flowers
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
first half 12th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
Period
Koryŏ dynasty, 918-1392
Culture
Korean
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/78217

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2600, East Asian Art, East Asian Painting and Decorative Arts
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Stoneware with incised decoration under celadon glaze
Technique
Celadon
Dimensions
H. 9.3 x Diam. 14.9 cm (3 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ex-Collection: Gregory (1922-1988) and Maria C. Henderson, Medford, Massachusetts

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Maria C. Henderson and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.548
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gregory Henderson, Korean Ceramics: An Art's Variety, exh. cat., Ohio State University, Divisions of Art Gallery (Columbus, Ohio, 1969), p. 38, no. 60
  • Christian Boehm, Korean Celadon and Buncheong Ware in the Harvard Art Museums, Arts of Asia (Hong Kong, Autumn 2023), pp. 106-, p. 108, fig. 5

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/23/2022 - 12/05/2022; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/04/2023 - 06/01/2025; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/04/2023 - 12/01/2025

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