1940.271: Small Circular Bowl with Lightly Flaring Lip and Decoration of a Fruiting Tree on the Interior and Alternating Fruiting and Flowering Branches on the Exterior

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1940.271

Title

Small Circular Bowl with Lightly Flaring Lip and Decoration of a Fruiting Tree on the Interior and Alternating Fruiting and Flowering Branches on the Exterior

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

probably 18th century

Places

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

Period

Qing dynasty, 1644-1911

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/205896

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze yellow enamel; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Hongzhi nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Dimensions

H. 3.8 x Diam. 9.9 cm (1 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: spurious: Da Ming Hongzhi nian zhi

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1940

Object Number

1940.271

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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. 27 (not illustrated)

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