1991.227: Small, Wide-Mouthed Jar with Tortoiseshell Glaze
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.227
- Title
- Small, Wide-Mouthed Jar with Tortoiseshell Glaze
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 12th-13th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Ji’an
- Period
- Song dynasty, Southern Song period, 1127-1279
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/201795
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown and transparent amber glazes. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
- Dimensions
- H. 11.4 x Diam. 13 cm (4 1/2 x 5 1/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- J.J. Lally & Co., New York
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.227
- 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. 229-230, no. 88
Verification Level
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