1991.509: Horn cup and pedestal stand
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.509
- Title
- Horn cup and pedestal stand
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- late 5th cent. - first half 6th cent.
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Korea
- Period
- Three Kingdoms period, Silla, 57 BCE-668 CE
- Culture
- Korean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/78216
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gray stoneware with incised, appliqué, and openwork decoration and with splashes of natural ash glaze
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 17.2 cm (12 x 6 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Ex-coll: Gregory (1922-1988) and Maria C. Henderson, Medford, Massachusetts
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Maria C. Henderson and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.509
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Robert P. Griffing, Jr., The Art of the Korean Potter; Silla, Koryô, Yi, exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (New York, NY, 1968), p. 62, no. 10; p. 117, no. 10
- Gregory Henderson, Korean Ceramics: An Art's Variety, exh. cat., Ohio State University, Divisions of Art Gallery (Columbus, Ohio, 1969), p. 25, no. 21
- Robert D. Mowry, First Under Heaven: The Henderson Collection of Korean Ceramics, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992), n.p.
- Susanne Ebbinghaus, ed., Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 282-283, fig. 6.29; p. 364, cat. 58
Exhibition History
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