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Lamp with base in the form of a bear

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Lamp with wide, shallow, straight-sided dish receptacle for oil, raised on a faceted stem with base in the form of a ferocious bear with plump body and humped back seated on a high domed pedestal base; red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald green glaze over molded decoration, the glaze showing silvery iridescence on the surface from burial; the underside of base unglazed.
Department of Asian Art [J.J. Lally & Co. New York December 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation Woodside CA (1999-2006) 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 Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
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Title: Lamp with base in the form of a bear
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Lamp with wide, shallow, straight-sided dish receptacle for oil, raised on a faceted stem with base in the form of a ferocious bear with plump body and humped back seated on a high domed pedestal base; red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald green glaze over molded decoration, the glaze showing silvery iridescence on the surface from burial; the underside of base unglazed.

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