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Conical Bowl with Decoration of a Blossoming Plum Branch under Crescent Moon and Clouds
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Conical bowl covered all over, except for the base and small footring, witha chocolate0brown glaze. The inside walls of the bowl feature a spontaneously stylized depiction of a blossoming plum branch under a new moon by which pass small clouds, the designs spontaneously brushed in ash and buff slip atop the glaze before firing.
Department of Asian Art
Andrew Kahane--Oriental Art New York
Diane H. Schafer Collection New York
American private collection Pennsylvania (purchased from a Chinese collector in Taiwan in the 1950s)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Purchase through the generosity of Mariot Fraser Solomon
Title: Conical Bowl with Decoration of a Blossoming Plum Branch under Crescent Moon and Clouds
Description:
Conical bowl covered all over, except for the base and small footring, witha chocolate0brown glaze.
The inside walls of the bowl feature a spontaneously stylized depiction of a blossoming plum branch under a new moon by which pass small clouds, the designs spontaneously brushed in ash and buff slip atop the glaze before firing.
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