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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Zhejiang Province
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China
- Period
- Ming dynasty 1368 - 1644 → China
- Date
- circa 1400-1450
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- celadon
- Dimensions
- 6.9 x 46.5 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Laurence G. Harrison 1997
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 394.1997
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Longquan ware
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About
The word 'celadon', still in popular usage, was introduced by a 19th-century French collector after a character in a 17th-century French play whose costume was a similar green in colour. The word does not occur in Chinese scholarship, where 'greenwares' is the preferred term.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.108.
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Places
Where the work was made
Zhejiang Province
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Feb 1977–26 Jun 1977
Conversations through the Asian collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Oct 2014–13 Mar 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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J. Hepburn Myrtle, Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Sydney, 1977, 16, 40 (illus.). cat.no. 4, plate no. 1
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Early Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 108 (colour illus.).
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