Tz'u-chou Pillow
Unidentified Song Dynasty maker, Chinese, 960 - 1279
Song Dynasty, 960-1279
Stoneware with sgraffito on cream slip
Overall: 5 1/4 × 12 3/4 × 9 1/2 in. (13.4 × 32.4 × 24.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind and D. Herbert Beskind, Class of 1936
C.957.155
Geography
Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia
Period
1000-1400
Object Name
Furniture
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Inscriptions
JX 10/17/2024: 忍 (rěn), To endure; to bear. Not signed. Single large character on face: JEN (to endure, to bear)
Exhibition History
Barrows Print Room and Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 5-31, 1973/74?
Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-July 10, 1966.
Far Eastern Ceramics, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 10-October 17, 1976.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 12, 1989-April 12, 1994.
Publication History
"Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College," New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985, pp.44-45.
Provenance
Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind (1917-2014) and David Herbert Beskind (1915-2015), Class of 1936, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1957.
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