1942.185.50: Circular Basin with Drum-Nail Decor and Three Cloud Scroll Feet
VesselsA low, wide ceramic basin shown from its side on a white faded background. It is colored a mottled purple glaze on the body of the outside of the piece, and the inside is pale green-blue. It has four small, pointed feet with small swirls on them. There is a band along the top lip of small, circles widely spaced out. The edges and details of the lip are tan from thinned glaze.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1942.185.50
- Title
- Circular Basin with Drum-Nail Decor and Three Cloud Scroll Feet
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- probably 15th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province
- Period
- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205348
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 4 (si) inscribed on base before firing
- Technique
- Jun
- Dimensions
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max.: H. 7.6 × Diam. 20 cm (3 × 7 7/8 in.)
base: Diam. 14.2 cm (5 9/16 in.)
weight: 1060.4 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: incised on base before firing: 四 si (four)
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
- 1942.185.50
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Subjects and Contexts
- Jun Ware
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Verification Level
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