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Pilgrim flask
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Flask with short cylindrical neck, round body with flattened front and back supported on an oval footring, and with two square lug handles on the shoulder; white stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with pale celadon green. From northern China, probably from Hebei or Henan province.
Department of Asian Art
[Christian Boehm London May 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation Woodside CA (2001-2006) partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums 2006.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Title: Pilgrim flask
Description:
Flask with short cylindrical neck, round body with flattened front and back supported on an oval footring, and with two square lug handles on the shoulder; white stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with pale celadon green.
From northern China, probably from Hebei or Henan province.
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