Tomb Figurine: Dog
sculptor
Unknown
Date206 BCE-220 CE
Place MadeChina, East Asia
MediumGreen glazed earthenware
Dimensions13.6 cm (5 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberC21w23
eMuseum ID719839
EmbARK ObjectID13396
TMS Source ID2344
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella 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.
BibliographyNotesChinese 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
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
ProvenanceNotesPurchased 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).
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