8th century
Ovoid jar with short neck, broad shoulders, and sides tapering inward to a small, flat circular base; with painted decoration of birds with outstretched wings; red earthenware with cold-painted black, white, and red pigments.
H. 29.9 x Diam. 25 cm (11 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, November 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
Monochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze (now much degraded)
8th centuryChineseStoneware with dark brown glaze and overglaze blue splashes
8th-9th centuryChineseTurned bronze
9th centuryChinesePale buff stoneware with clear glaze mottled with emerald-green glaze over a white slip ground
9th centuryChineseWhite stoneware with clear glaze
8th-9th centuryChineseWhite stoneware with ivory hued glaze
8th-9th centuryChineseLead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze (now much degraded) over a white slip ground on the exterior and lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze on the interior
8th centuryChineseMonochrome-glazed ware: pale pink earthenware with (partially degraded) lead-fluxed, clear glaze over white slip ground on the exterior; the pale blue splashes applied over the glaze in the twentieth century, using blue ink or pigment; with lead-fluxed, yellow glaze on the interior
8th centuryChineseLight gray stoneware with olive-green ash glaze over applique lug handles
8th-9th centuryChineseRed earthenware with stamped decoration
7th-9th centuryChineseSancai ("three color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed caramel-brown glaze on the interior and lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splashed clear glaze on the lip and exterior, the glazes slightly degraded
8th centuryChineseChangsha ware: light gray stoneware with three appliqué molded elements coated with caramel-brown glaze over a thin layer of white slip. From the kilns at Tongchuan, Changsha, Hunan province
9th centuryChinese