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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.220
Title
Small Bowl with Segmented Lip and Abstract Decor
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
probably 11th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shaanxi province, Tongchuan
Period
Song dynasty, Northern Song period, 960-1127
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/149464

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron oxide. From the Huangpu kiln complex, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province
Dimensions
5.9 x 12 cm (2 5/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
C.T. Loo, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk, Jr. Collection, New York (Collection number 117); purchased from C.T. Loo, New York, in June 1950
HUAM purchased from J.J. Lally & Co., New York Christie’s, New York, Sale 9822, Lot 75

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art and Philip Hofer Fund for the Purchase of Asian Art
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.220
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 120-121, no. 21

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