Long-necked Bottle | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2006.170.240
Title: Long-necked Bottle
Other Titles: Original Language Title: 唐白瓷長頸瓶
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: 7th century
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province
Period: Tang dynasty, 618-907
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/169025

Physical Descriptions

Medium: White stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green
Technique: Celadon
Dimensions: H. 24.3 x Diam. 11.3 cm (9 9/16 x 4 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [S. Marchant & Son, London, July 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), 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: 2006.170.240
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Silver-form long-necked bottle with flared mouth, ovoid body, tall conical foot, and flat base; white stoneware with transparent celadon-green-tinted glaze; base unglazed. From northern China, possibly Henan province.
Commentary: Compare to
(1) White ware bottle of closely related form dating to the Tang period excavated in 2000 from the underground vault of Fawang Temple, Dengfeng, Henan province, now in the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 12: Henan (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 85.
(2) White ware bottle of related form purportedly made at the Xing kilns, Henan province, excavated in 1990 from a Tang period site at Shaolingyuan, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, now in the Shaanxi History Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 15: Shaanxi (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 67.
(3) Slightly smaller white ware bottle of nearly identical form attributed to the early Tang period (7th century) in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco collection (accession no. B60P2073). See He Li, Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), no. 133, pp. 89 and 119.

Subjects and Contexts

Sedgwick Collection

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2006.170.240: Long-necked Bottle