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Calabash-Shaped Bottle with Blue Splashes
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Asian Art
Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Sotheby's London
Formerly in British Rail Pension Fund Collection
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Partial gift of Peter W. Scheinman in honor of James Cuno and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
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