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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.119
Title
Compressed Globular Bottle with Long Neck and Decoration of Rolling Waves
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
13th-early 14th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Ji’an
Period
Southern Song period (1127-1279) to Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/167756

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Painted Jizhou ware: very light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
Dimensions
18.5 x 10.2 cm (7 5/16 x 4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Sotheby's, London

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
2001.119
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. 60, fig. 20
  • 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. 68, pp. 86-87
  • Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2001-2002 (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 16

Exhibition History

  • Plum, Orchid, Chrysanthemum, and Bamboo: Botanical Motifs and Symbols in East Asian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 07/06/2002 - 01/05/2003

Verification Level

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