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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.120
Title
Calabash-Shaped Bottle with Butterfly Decoration
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
9th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Hunan province, Changsha
Period
Tang dynasty, 618-907
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/167598

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Changsha ware: light gray stoneware with three appliqué molded elements coated with caramel-brown glaze over a thin layer of white slip. From the kilns at Tongchuan, Changsha, Hunan province
Dimensions
H. 19.8 x Diam. 15.8 cm (7 13/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Peter W. Scheinman purchased from J.J. Lally & Co., New York

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
2001
Object Number
2001.120
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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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; illustrated and discussed on p. 58, as fig. 15
  • 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), Cat. no. 45, p. 70

Verification Level

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