Bowl with landscape decor
VesselsChinese1st century BCE-2nd century CE

Bowl with landscape decor

1st century BCE-2nd century CE

Description

Straight sided bowl with decoration of ducks flying amid scrolling clouds in a schematized landscape; red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze over molded decoration, the glaze fully covering the vessel, including the base

Classification
Vessels
Technique
Lead glaze
Medium
Earthenware with green lead glaze
Culture
Chinese
Period
Han dynasty, 206 BCE-220 CE
Century
1st century BCE-2nd century CE
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Department
Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

H. 8.4 x Diam. 18.3 cm (3 5/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

Provenance

[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, February 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

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