Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.271: Ink palette with leaf-form legs Artists' Tools Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Ink palette with leaf-form legs , 2006.170.271,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/188169. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.271 Title Ink palette with leaf-form legs Other Titles Original Language Title: 唐 三彩葉形足硯 Classification Artists' Tools Work Type inkstand Date late 7th-early 8th century Places Creation Place: East Asia, China Period Tang dynasty, 618-907 Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/188169 Physical Descriptions Medium Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze Technique Lead glaze Dimensions H. 4.6 x Diam. 8.9 cm (1 13/16 x 3 1/2 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, October 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 Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund Accession Year 2006 Object Number 2006.170.271 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 Small ink palette of circular form with top flat surface surrounded by a deep reservoir, raised on ten small feet in the form of acanthus leaves, supported on a short footring; white earthenware with lead-fluxed pale green glaze embellished with variegated touches of copper green and iron brown over molded and applique elements; the top surface and underside of palette unglazed. Sancai ware. From northern China, Henan, Hebei, or Shaanxi province. Commentary Compare to: (1) Sancai ink palette of closely related form excavated from a Tang dynasty tomb in Gongyi, Henan province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 11 (1998): 47-48, fig. 42.5 and pl. 40. (2) Sancai ink palette of similar form excavated from the tomb of Crown Prince Yide (d. 701) at Qianling, Shaanxi province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 7 (1972): 32, fig. 8. (3) White ware ink palette of similar form but with bear-form legs, purportedly made at the Gongyi kilns, Henan province excavated from a Tang-dynasty tomb at a residential quarter in Guodu, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, now in the Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 15: Shaanxi (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 43. 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. 15, pp. 56-57 The Chinese Porcelain Company: A Dealer's Record, 1985-2000, auct. cat., The Chinese Porcelain Company (New York, 2000), p. 61 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
