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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
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
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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
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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