Tea bowl with oil-spot decoration

12th -13th century

Chinese

Stoneware with glaze

1 11/16 in. (4.29 cm)

Diam.: 3 9/16 in.

Thomas D. Stimson Memorial Collection

36.5

Not currently on view

Resources

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).

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