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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1961.113
Title
Pear-Shaped Bottle with Scrolling Peony Decor
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
late 14th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen
Period
Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/203174

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze copper red
Dimensions
H. 33.8 x Diam. 12.5 cm (13 5/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Richard Bryant Hobart, Cambridge, MA (by 1961), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1961.

Note:
Richard Bryant Hobart (1885–1963), Harvard College Class of 1906

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Richard B. Hobart in memory of Langdon Warner
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
1961.113
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sherman E. Lee and Wai-kam Ho, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, 1968), cat. no. 170
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 42, p. 43

Exhibition History

  • Chinese Art Under the Mongols, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 10/01/1968 - 11/24/1968

Verification Level

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