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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.185.409
Title
Large Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of Plum Blossom and Three Phoenixes in Flight
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
13th-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/205188

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.185.409
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hope Gumprecht, "An Investigation of Resist-Decorated Jizhou Ware" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1990), Unpublished, pp. 1-12 passim

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