1942.185.75: Circular Flat Dish
VesselsA circular dish shown from above on a grey background. It is colored pale blue with light reflecting off of the glaze. It is flat with a thin, tan rim.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1942.185.75
- Title
- Circular Flat Dish
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 12th-early 13th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province
- Period
- Jin dynasty, 1115-1234
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205776
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
- Technique
- Jun
- Dimensions
- H. 2.9 x Diam. 15.6 cm (1 1/8 x 6 1/8 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
- 1942.185.75
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Sara Moy, "Why Are They Blue?: A Technical Analysis of Chinese Green and Blue Glazed Celadons" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2001), Unpublished, pp. 1-48 passim
Exhibition History
- Masterworks of East Asian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/03/1995 - 06/09/1996
- 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/01/2016 - 06/09/2017
Subjects and Contexts
- Jun Ware
Verification Level
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