2006.170.246.A-B: Covered ovoid jar (guan)
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.246.A-B
- Title
- Covered ovoid jar (guan)
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 唐 白瓷蓋罐
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- early 9th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Tang dynasty, 618-907
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/182462
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Off-white stoneware with clear glaze
- Technique
- White ware
- Dimensions
- with cover: H. 24.2 x Diam. 20.5 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, April 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
- 2006.170.246.A-B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Covered ovoid jar with short, flared neck, the cover with small lotus-bud shaped knob; off-white stoneware with clear glaze over white slip ground. From northern China, probably from Hebei or Henan province.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
(1) White ware covered jar of virtually identical form excavated in 1992 from a tomb dated 851 in Beiyaowan, Gongyi, Henan province, now in the Henan Provincial Research 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. 49.
(2) White ware covered jar of virtually identical form excavated in 1984 from a tomb dated 845 in Xingyuan, Yanshi county, Henan province, now in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology collection, Beijing. Yanyuan juzhen: Beijing daxue Saikele kaogu yu yishu bowuguan zhanpin xuancui [Treasures from a Swallow Garden: inaugural exhibit of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1992), cat. 136, pp. 254-55.
Exhibition History
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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