Dice Bowl

Unidentified Ming Dynasty maker, Chinese, 1368 - 1644

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Ming Dynasty, Hsuan-te Period (1426-1435)

Porcelain with underglaze blue

Overall: 4 × 11 in. (10.2 × 28 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind and D. Herbert Beskind, Class of 1936

C.958.369

Geography

Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Food Service

Research Area

Asia

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, on base: reign mark of wan-li

Course History

AMES 11, HIST 9, Introduction to Korean Culture, Sunglim Kim, Fall 2013

ARTH 68, AMES 21.7, Modern and Contemporary Korean Art, Sunglim Kim, Fall 2013

Art History 20.04, Faith and Empire, Beth Mattison, Spring 2023

Environmental Studies 26.01, Soil Ecological Systems, Veer Chaudhary, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

Asian Art from the College Collection, Barrows Print Room and Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 5-31, 1973/74?

Chinese Art from the College Collection, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 30-September 4, 1978.

Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 21, 1998-August 20, 1999.

The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 21- November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 25- March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 24- August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 6, 1992- January 3, 1993, naturalia no. n157.

Publication History

"Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College," New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985, p.46.

Provenance

Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind (1917-2014) and David Herbert Beskind (1915-2015), Class of 1936, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1958.

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