Object Title
Ewer with design of bird and lotus, Changsha ware
Measurements
H: 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm)
Creation Date
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
early 2000s with private dealer, Chicago and Hong Kong; early 2000s - before 2004 with Three Friends Studio, Chicago (purchased through private dealer); by 2004 - 2008 collection of Eunice and Herbert Shatzman, Durham (purchased through Three Friends Studio); 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; Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 6 – April 3, 2005
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. 63, cat. no. 58, color illus. p. 63. (height of 20.6 cm is correct, but the conversion to inches is incorrect)
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.