Object details
Object number
C21w23
Creator(s)
Chinese
Title
Tomb Figurine: Dog
Date
206 BCE-220 CE
Medium
Green glazed earthenware
Dimensions
13.6 cm (5 3/8 in.)
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Dr. Wilson Foss from the gallery Parish-Watson & Co., New York in Boston for $500 on 14 December 1922, through the art critic and design theorist Denman Waldo Ross (1853-1935).
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Chinese Pottery of the Han, T'ang and Sung Dynasties. Exh. cat. (New York, Parish-Watson & Co., 1917), p. 27, no. 24. (as Han dynasty)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 180-81. (Chinese, Han dynasty, 206 BCE-221 CE)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 41 (13 Jun. 1965), p. 2. (as ascribed to the Han period, 206 BCE-221 CE)
Yasuko Horioka. "Chinese Sculpture-II." Fenway Court (Feb. 1970), pp. 23-24, fig. 5. (as Han Dynasty)
Yasuko Horioka et al. Oriental and Islamic Art: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1975), pp. 12-13, no. 4. (as Chinese, Han dynasty, 206 BCE-220 CE)
Diana Seave Greenwald, "Isabella Stewart Gardner was a Dog Person," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 29 September 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabella-stewart-gardner-dog-person
Gallery
Dutch Room
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