Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.212: Chicken headed ewer 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"Chicken headed ewer , 2006.170.212,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/191054. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.212 Title Chicken headed ewer Other Titles Original Language Title: 東晉 越窯青瓷雞頭執壺 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date second half 4th century Places Creation Place: East Asia, China, Zhejiang Province, Shaoxing Period Jin dynasty, Eastern Jin period, 317-420 Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/191054 Physical Descriptions Medium Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze Technique Celadon Dimensions H. 13.4 x Diam. 14.6 cm (5 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Blitz Antiek en Kunsthandel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2002-2006), 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 2006.170.212 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 ewer with broad, rounded shoulders, sides tapering inward to a flat base, short neck supporting a dished mouth, short spout in the form of a chicken’s head with tubular opening at beak; curved handle attached to shoulder and dished mouth, placed opposite from the chicken-head spout; two squared lugs positioned bilaterally on the shoulders to the left and right of the spout; light gray stoneware with olive-green celadon glaze over incised, molded and applique decoration; slightly concave base mostly unglazed but bears some glaze and seven marks of spurs that elevated the vessel during firing to prevent it from fusing to kiln furniture. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area, northeastern Zhejiang province. Commentary Compare to: (1) Celadon chicken-headed ewer of closely related form excavated in 1985 from a mid-Eastern Jin dynasty brick tomb near Mount Mufu, Nanjing city, Jiangsu province, now in Nanjing City Museum. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 3 (2001): 42, fig. 3. (2) Celadon chicken-headed ewer of very similar form excavated in 1955 from an Eastern Jin dynasty brick tomb near Mount Langshan, Nanjing city, Jiangsu province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 4 (1956): 12, fig. 13 (3) Celadon chicken-headed ewer of similar form (with handle broken) excavated in 1998 from a late Eastern Jin dynasty brick tomb near Mount Xianhe, Nanjing city, Jiangsu province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 3 (2001): 37, fig. 122. (4) Chicken-headed ewer of very similar form, but larger and with opalescent blue crackled glaze attributed to the Eastern Jin period in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco collection (accession no. B60P171). See He Li, Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), no. 103, pp. 82 and 116. 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
