1940.247.A-B: Covered Globular Jar with Decoration of Flowers, Butterflies, Rocks, and Lingzhi Fungus

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1940.247.A-B

Title

Covered Globular Jar with Decoration of Flowers, Butterflies, Rocks, and Lingzhi Fungus

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

Kangxi period, 1662-1722

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

Period

Qing dynasty, 1644-1911

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/205851

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Dimensions

including cover: H. 10.9 x Diam. 13.2 cm (4 5/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: Reign mark (spurious): Da Ming Chenghuanian zhi

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Samuel C. Davis

Accession Year

1940

Object Number

1940.247.A-B

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• John Alexander Pope, "Ming Porcelains in the Davis Collection", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, President and Fellows of Harvard College (November 1941), vol. IX, no. 5, pp. 95-100, p. 96, fig. 1
• Fogg Art Museum, The Use of Blue on Chinese Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty 1368-1644, exh. cat., Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 1947), no. 7 (not illustrated)
• Christopher Reed, "Wrong!", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, September 2004-October 2004), vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 40-51, p. 1 (partial) and p. 44 (full view and detail)

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