1940.224: Circular Dish with Decoration of a Scholar and Attendants Visiting a Sage within a Landscape
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1940.224
- Title
- Circular Dish with Decoration of a Scholar and Attendants Visiting a Sage within a Landscape
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- Wanli period, 1573-1620
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen
- Period
- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204497
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
- Dimensions
- H. 3.5 x Diam. 17.5 cm (1 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Samuel C. Davis
- Accession Year
- 1940
- Object Number
- 1940.224
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Fogg Art Museum, The Use of Blue on Chinese Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty 1368-1644, exh. cat., Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 1947), no. 37 (not illustrated)
Verification Level
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