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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.185.383
Title
Small Circular Offering Dish with Three Clawed-Cabriole Legs and with Stylized Lotus and Goose-in-Flight Decor
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
first half 8th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province
Period
Tang dynasty, 618-907
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205539

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.
Dimensions
H. 4.8 x Diam. 18.5 cm (1 7/8 x 7 5/16 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
1942.185.383
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Illustrated Catalogue of an Exhibition of Oriental Art Treasures ; exhibited at the Yamanaka gallery, Boston, Mass., Dec., 1916, auct. cat., Yamanaka & Co. (Boston, Mass., 1916), p. 9, no. 12 (illustrated in color, frontispiece)
  • Mount Holyoke Friends of Art, Chinese Art: A Loan Exhibition Presented by the Mount Holyoke Friends of Art in honor of the John Martyn Warbeke Fund for Oriental Art, exh. cat. (1960), cat. 54

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