Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.154.A-B: Covered tripod cauldron (lei) 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"Covered tripod cauldron (lei) , 2006.170.154.A-B,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 20, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/188154. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.154.A-B Title Covered tripod cauldron (lei) Other Titles Original Language Title: 戰國 原始瓷蓋罍 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 5th-4th century BCE Places Creation Place: East Asia, China, Zhejiang Province Period Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/188154 Physical Descriptions Medium Proto Porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze Proto Porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze Dimensions H. 36.2 x W. (across handles) 41.8 x Diam. 35.6 cm (14 1/4 x 16 7/16 x 14 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, July 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), 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 2006.170.154.A-B 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 Large covered ovoid, bronze-form cauldron with three cabriole legs and two movable rings attached to arched handles at the shoulders; the slightly domed cover with matching movable ring-handle; light gray stoneware body with natural ash glaze over horizontal bands of stamped decoration. Commentary Compare to: (1) Bronze tripod cauldron of similar form with movable ring handles and horizontal decor excavated in 1982 from an early Warring States period (5th-4th century BCE) tomb near Mount Shizi, Potang Commune, Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, now in Zhejiang Provincial Museum. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 1 (1984): 24, fig. 36.2 and pl. 4.6. (2) Proto-porcelain tripod ewer with similar stamped decoration and glaze excavated in 1987 from a Warring States period site at Shangjiang village, Shaoxing county, Zhejiang province, now in the Shaoxing Office for Preservation and Management of Cultural Relics. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 9: Zhejiang (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 11. Publication History Abstraction and Reality: Chinese Art from the Warring States to the Liao (An Exhibition and Sale, 6-28 October 1999), auct. cat., The Chinese Porcelain Company (New York, 1999), no. 1, pp. 14-16 The Chinese Porcelain Company: A Dealer's Record, 1985-2000, auct. cat., The Chinese Porcelain Company (New York, 2000), p. 56 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
