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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.185.394
Title
Ovoid Vase with Long Neck, Rolled Lip, and Stylized Peony and Lotus Decor
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
12th-early 13th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Jin dynasty, 1115-1234
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205185

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in black slip on a white-slip ground under a clear glaze, the clear glaze then covered all over with a lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze; with brush-written inscription on the interior of the foot ring
Dimensions
H. 20.6 x Diam. 9.5 cm (8 1/8 x 3 3/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.185.394
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Yutaka Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., exh. cat., Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indianapolis, 1980), pp. 214-215, cat. 95

Verification Level

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