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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.251
Title
Ewer with short spout
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 唐 褐釉執壺
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
8th-9th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shaanxi province, Tongchuan
Period
Tang dynasty, 618-907
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/174174

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Stoneware with brown glaze
Technique
Black-brown glaze
Dimensions
H. 18.9 x W. (across handle and spout) 13.5 x Diam. 12.5 cm (7 7/16 x 5 5/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Priestley and Ferraro, London, May 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
2006.170.251
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Ewer with flared mouth, ovoid body, short tubular spout, and arching, double-strand handle; light gray stoneware with medium brown glaze, the glaze stopping short of the foot; base unglazed. From the Huangpu kilns, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.
Commentary
Compare to:
White ware ewer of closely related form excavated in 1989 from a late Tang-dynasty tomb at Beizhai village, Jingxing mining district, Hebei province, now in the Shijiazhuang Museum, Hebei. Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 3: Hebei (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 49.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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