Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.230: Elliptical bottle with dished mouth 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"Elliptical bottle with dished mouth , 2006.170.230,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/193290. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.230 Title Elliptical 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/193290 Physical Descriptions Medium Stoneware with celadon glaze Technique Celadon Dimensions H. 27 x Diam. 14 cm (10 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Kaikodo, New York, September 1998] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1998-2006), 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 2006.170.230 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 Elliptical bottle supported by a short, slightly splayed foot with a flat base; shoulders narrow dramatically to a short, narrow neck topped with a dish-shaped mouth with everted rim; four evenly spaced, parallel horizontal lines encircle the upper portion of the vessel; light gray stoneware with bluish-green celadon glaze that appears blue in concentrated areas; glaze stops well short of the foot; base unglazed. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably northern China. Commentary Compare to: (1) Celadon bottle of related form with similar dished mouth, horizontal linear decor, and blue-streaked glaze dated to the Sui dynasty excavated in Qufu, Shandong province, now in the Shandong Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 5: Sui, Tang [Sui and Tang dynasties] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 25, pp. 56 and 223. (2) Celadon bottle of similar form and horizontal linear decor, but with rounded cup-shaped mouth dated to the Sui dynasty excavated in 1995 in Xingyang, Henan province, now in the Zhengzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 12: Henan (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 43. (3) Celadon bottle of closely related form and decor attributed to the Sui dynasty in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, New York (accession no. 2011.394). 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
