Your Collection

Add this item to your collection
Harvard Art Museums
Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.101
Title
Ewer with Dished Mouth, Double-Dragon Handle, and Double-Chicken-Headed Spout
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
late 4th-first half 5th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Zhejiang Province
Period
Jin dynasty, Eastern Jin period, 317-420
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/101796

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown-glazed ware of Yue type: light gray stoneware with mottled medium brown glaze. Probably from the Deqing or Yuhang kilns, Zhejiang province.
Dimensions
H. 25.6 x Diam. 15.9 cm (10 1/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Peter W. Scheinman purchased from dealer Martin Fung, Hong Kong

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
2003
Object Number
2003.101
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Frances Klapthor, "Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Peter and Irene Scheinman", Orientations, Orientations Magazine Ltd. (Hong Kong, 1992), vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 53-60, fig. 13
  • Jason C. Kuo, Born of Earth and Fire: Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, exh. cat., ed. Jason C. Kuo, Baltimore Museum of Art (College Park, MD, 1992), pp. 52-53, no. 25
  • 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. 80-82, no. 1

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu