Object Title
Pair of bowls, Changsha ware
Measurements
H: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); diam: 5 7/8 in. (15 cm)
Creation Date
8th or 9th century, Tang dynasty (618-907)
Credit Line
Gift of Eunice Shatzman, Class of 1949, and Herbert Shatzman
Culture
Country of Origin
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://www.museum.cornell.edu/collections
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Tang Dynasty, or earlier (618-906 CE)
Provenance Information
n.d. collected from a shipwreck in the Java Sea. before 2004 with Jan van Beers, Oriental Art, London; by 2004-2008 collection of Eunice and Herbert Shatzman, Durham (purchased through Jan van Beers); 2008 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (gift of Eunice and Herbert Shatzman)
Exhibition Information
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, Heavenly Earth: Early Chinese Ceramics from the Shatzman Collection, June 5 – August 22, 2004
Publication Information
Avril, Ellen. Heavenly Earth: Early Chinese Ceramics from the Shatzman Collection [an exh. cat.] (Ithaca: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2004); ref. p. 62-63, cat. no. 57a and b, color illus. p. 62.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
The donors pledged part of their collection, including this object, to the museum prior to 2008, as per correspondence dated 2001, on file.