BoxesChinese9th century

Small covered box

9th century

Description

Small circular box and cover with straight sides, the cover lightly domed; light gray stoneware with dark caramel-brown glaze on the exterior and transparent colorless glaze on the interior; base unglazed. From the Huangpu kilns, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.

Classification

Boxes

Technique

Black-brown glaze

Medium

Stoneware with brown glaze

Culture

Chinese

Period

Tang dynasty, 618-907

Century

9th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

with cover: H. 3.3 x Diam. 5 cm (1 5/16 x 1 15/16 in.)

Provenance

[Kaikodo, New York, October 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

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