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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.121
Title
Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Butterfly, a Stylized Flower, and Two Phoenixes in Flight
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
12th-14th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Ji’an
Period
Southern Song period (1127-1279) to Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/64559

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
Dimensions
4.5 x 11.6 cm (1 3/4 x 4 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Sotheby's or Christie's, New York or London

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Peter W. Scheinman and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.121
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese brown- and black-glazed ceramics, 400-1400, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 238-240, no. 95

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