Harvard Art Museums > 1999.110: Ovoid Jar with Stylized Floral Decor 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"Ovoid Jar with Stylized Floral Decor , 1999.110,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 01, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/190853. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1999.110 Title Ovoid Jar with Stylized Floral Decor Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date probably mid 14th century Places Creation Place: East Asia, China Period Yuan dynasty, 1279-1368 Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/190853 Physical Descriptions Medium Cizhou-type cut-glaze ware: ivory white stoneware with olive brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing Dimensions 29.6 x 31.1 cm (11 5/8 x 12 1/4 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Sotheby's, New York between 1986 and 1988 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Peter W. Scheinman and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art Accession Year 1999 Object Number 1999.110 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. Publication History Jason C. Kuo, Born of Earth and Fire: Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, exh. cat., ed. Jason C. Kuo, Baltimore Museum of Art (College Park, MD, 1992), p. 92, no. 72 Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese brown- and black-glazed ceramics, 400-1400, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 191-192, no. 69 James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p.13 Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 1999-2000 (Cambridge, MA, 2001), p. 10 Exhibition History A Decade of Collecting: Asian Acquisitions 1990-1999, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2000 - 11/05/2000 Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Paintings from China, Korea, and Japan, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/25/2000 - 08/26/2001 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
