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Tea bowl with oil-spot decoration
Tea bowl with oil-spot decoration

Tea bowl with oil-spot decoration

Date12th -13th century
Object number36.5
Exhibition HistoryPalo Alto, California, Stanford Art Gallery, T'ang And Sung Ceramic Arts, 1951. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.Published ReferencesHandbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 68 (b&w) Tosetsu, Japanese Cermaic Society Publication, 1956, p. 52. Foong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): p. 61, reproduced fig. 22 (installation view).
Credit LineThomas D. Stimson Memorial Collection
Dimensions1 11/16 in. (4.29 cm) Diam.: 3 9/16 in.
MediumStoneware with glaze
Photo: Susan Cole
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12th-13th century
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