1991.624: Large Storage Jar
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.624
- Title
- Large Storage Jar
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- second half 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
- Period
- Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910
- Culture
- Korean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/201036
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with mark reading "Un Hyŏn" ("Cloud Hill") painted in underglaze cobalt blue on the base; the inscription perhaps is a reference to the palace in which the Prince Regent lived from 1864 to 1873. Made at the official kilns in Kwangju-gun, Kyŏnggi province, perhaps in Punwŏn-ri.
- Dimensions
- H. 51 x Diam. 32.5 cm (20 1/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Gregory (1922-1988) and Maria C. Henderson (1923-2007), Medford, MA (by 1969-1988), inherited; by Maria C. Henderson, Medford, MA (1988-1991), partial gift and partial purchase; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Maria C. Henderson and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.624
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Gregory Henderson, Korean Ceramics: An Art's Variety, exh. cat., Ohio State University, Divisions of Art Gallery (Columbus, Ohio, 1969), pp. 19 and 59, no. 136
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/07/2017 - 06/01/2018
- Earthly Delights: 6,000 Years of Asian Ceramics, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022
Verification Level
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