Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.220: Vase with dished mouth Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Vase with dished mouth , 2006.170.220,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 20, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/182443. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.220 Title Vase with dished mouth Other Titles Original Language Title: 南北朝 青瓷盤口壺 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 6th century Places Creation Place: East Asia, China Period Northern and Southern Dynasties period, 420-589 Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/182443 Physical Descriptions Medium Stoneware with celadon glaze Technique Celadon Dimensions H. 30.9 x Diam. 22.1 cm (12 3/16 x 8 11/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Christian Boehm, London, March 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 Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art Accession Year 2006 Object Number 2006.170.220 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Vessel with dish-shaped mouth, long neck, globular body, and slightly splayed foot; two horizontal ridges encircle the neck and one encircles the shoulder; four square lug handles are evenly spaced around the shoulder; light gray stoneware with bluish-green celadon glaze; glaze stops short of the foot; base unglazed. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably northern ware. Commentary Compare to: (1) Celadon vase of very similar form excavated in 1995 from a Sui-dynasty (581-618) site at Longju village, Dangtu county, Ma’anshan, Anhui province, now in the Dangtu Office for the Management of Cultural Relics. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 8: Anhui (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 52. (2) Celadon vessel of very similar form attributed to the first half sixth century in Cincinnati Museum collection. See Yutaka Mino and Katherine Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987), cat. 37, pp. 106-107. (3) Celadon vessel of similar form excavated from an Eastern Wei (534-550) tomb at Xiaomachang, Wuqiaoxian, Hebei province. See Hebeisheng chutu wenwu xuanji (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1980), no. 312. Subjects and Contexts Sedgwick Collection Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
