About the Artwork
Ovoid Bottle with Bird Motif
between the 12th and 13th century
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Chinese
Chinese
Stoneware with iron-brown slip and iron glaze
Height x Diameter: 8 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches (22.5 × 19.1 cm)
Ceramics
Asian Art
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George Green
62.117
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
James Marshall Plumer [1899 - 1960] (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
Caroline Lawrence Plumer [1901-1995] (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Green (Birmingham, Michigan, USA)
1962-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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DIA, SELECTIONS FROM THE JAMES MARSHALL PLUMER COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL ART, March 6-April 8, 1962, cat no 68.
Mowry, CHINESE BROWN AND BLACK GLAZED CERAMICS, pp. 161-167.
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Chinese, Ovoid Bottle with Bird Motif, between the 12th and 13th century, stoneware with iron-brown slip and iron glaze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George Green, 62.117.
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