A circular dish shown from above. It is pale blue with an off-white rim.
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A circular dish shown from above on a grey background. It is pale blue-green with a thin, off-white rim.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.185.74
Title
Circular Dish
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
late 11th - first half 12th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province
Period
Northern Song (960-1127) to Jin (1115-1234) period
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/199626

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze
Technique
Jun
Dimensions
max.: H. 4.4 × Diam. 18.7 cm (1 3/4 × 7 3/8 in.)
foot: Diam. 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.185.74
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sara Moy, "Why Are They Blue?: A Technical Analysis of Chinese Green and Blue Glazed Celadons" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2001), Unpublished, pp. 1-48 passim
  • Lucy Cooper, Susan Costello, Katherine Eremin, Melissa Moy, Kathy King, Marc Walton, Emeline Pouyet Pouyet, Andrew Shortland, and Laure Dussubieux, Numbered Jun Ware - A Technical Study, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, American Institute for Conservation (10.1080/01971360.2020.1748971, November 19, 2020), 60, 4, Pages 255-268, Figure 2, Page 257

Subjects and Contexts

  • Jun Ware

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