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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.231
Title
Bottle with dished mouth
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 隋 青瓷盤口瓶
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
6th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Sui dynasty, 581-618
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188954

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Stoneware with celadon glaze
Technique
Celadon
Dimensions
H. 18.9 x Diam. 11.3 cm (7 7/16 x 4 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Christian Boehm, London, November 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
2006.170.231
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Ovoid bottle with sides of lower half tapering inward to a short, slightly splayed foot with flat base; broad rounded shoulders curve inward to long, slender ridged neck topped with dish-shaped mouth with everted rim; four double-loop applique handles evenly spaced around the shoulders; lightly incised horizontal lines encircling the upper portion of body; light gray stoneware with light green celadon glaze that stops well above the foot; base unglazed. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably northern China.

Commentary
(1) Celadon bottle of closely related form with two loop handles excavated from a Sui dynasty (581-618) tomb dated to 608 outside Yuxiangmen, Xi’an, Shaanxi province. See Kaogu [Archaeology] 9 (1959): 471-72, pl. 3.14.
(2) Celadon bottle of similar form excavated from a Sui tomb in Boxian, Anhui province. See Kaogu [Archaeology] 1 (1977): 65-68, pl. 12.1.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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