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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.144.A-B
Title
Covered pedestal dish
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 戰國 黑硬陶蓋豆
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
4th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/178616

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray stoneware with blackened surface
Dimensions
H. 25.5 x Diam. 20.4 cm (10 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, June 2000] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2000-2006), 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 Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.170.144.A-B
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Deep bowl with wide mouth raised on a tall stem supported on a broad circular concave foot with neatly molded upturned edge, the lower sides of the bowl with concave grooves and the well-fitted domed cover similarly grooved, the large circular platform finial also grooved and raised on a reel-shaped stem, the dark gray pottery burnished to a smooth black surface and showing scattered remains of earth encrustation and staining from burial. One of a pair with 2006.170.143.A-B.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Large, covered dou vessel of similar form and design excavated in 2012-2013 from a mid-Warring States period (4th century BCE) tomb in Guxiang cemetery, Linying county, Luohe, Henan province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 8 (2015): 8, fig. 9.
(2) Very similar but slightly smaller covered ceramic dou attributed to the Warring States period in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, New York (accession no. 50.61.9). See Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 2nd ed. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of New York, 1989), 30, fig. 25.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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