
Object Title
Parrot-head or Phoenix-head ewer, Longquan ware
Measurements
H: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Creation Date
12th or 13th century, Southern Song period (1127-1279)
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
late 1980s or early 1990s with private dealer, Hong Kong; by early 1990s - before 2004 E&J Frankel, Ltd., New York (purchased from private dealer); by 2004 - 2008 collection of Eunice and Herbert Shatzman, Durham (purchased from Frankel); 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. 70, cat. no. 68, color illus. p. 70.
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.