1995.3: Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Plum Blossom, Two Butterflies, and Two Phoenixes in Flight
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1995.3
- Title
- Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Plum Blossom, Two Butterflies, and Two Phoenixes in Flight
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 12th-13th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Ji’an
- Period
- Song dynasty, 960-1279
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/201011
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
- Dimensions
- 5.9 x 11.8 cm (2 5/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Shumei Culture Foundation Fund
- Accession Year
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.3
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- 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. 240-243, no. 96
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
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