2006.170.281.A-B: Covered tankard with loop handle
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.281.A-B
- Title
- Covered tankard with loop handle
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 遼 緑釉蓋鋬耳壺
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 11th-early 12th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Liao dynasty, 907-1125
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/146760
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Earthenware with green lead glaze
- Technique
- Lead glaze
- Dimensions
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H. 19 x Diam. 12.5 cm (7 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.)
across handles: W. 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2002] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2002-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.281.A-B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Covered metal-form tankard with loop handle; decorative flange above the loop handle to support a thumb; domed cover with knob in the form of a pointed lotus bud; gray earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Covered tankard of the same form with remnants of a yellow lead-fluxed glaze attributed to the Gangwa kiln in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia excavated in 1999 from a Liao dynasty tomb at Chaoyanggou village, Zhangwu county, Liaoning province, now in the Liaoning Provincial Research Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 2: Tianjin Liaoning Jilin Heilongjiang (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 70.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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