1991.548: Foliated Cup and Cup Stand with Flowers
VesselsA 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
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Level 2, Room 2600, East Asian Art, East Asian Painting and Decorative Arts
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
- Permissions
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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 - 01/01/2050
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Verification Level
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