Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.6: Rounded bowl Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Rounded bowl , 2006.170.6,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/146761. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.6 Title Rounded bowl Other Titles Original Language Title: 仰韶文化半坡類型 彩陶缽 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date Banpo phase, c. 5000-4000 BCE Places Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shaanxi province Period Neolithic period, Yangshao culture, c. 5000-3000 BCE Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/146761 Physical Descriptions Medium Earthenware with traces of slip-painted decoration Dimensions H. 8.3 x Diam. 15 cm (3 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2002] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2002-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the William M. Prichard Memorial Fund Accession Year 2006 Object Number 2006.170.6 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Deep hemispherical bowl with lower portion tapering inward to a slightly flattened convex base; red earthenware lightly burnished and decorated on the exterior around the lip with a wide band painted in a light-colored slip before firing; whitish encrustations from burial. Early Yangshao culture, Banpo type. From the middle Yellow River valley region, Shaanxi province. Commentary Compare to: Bowl of similar shape, decoration, and size excavated from a Banpo site in Beishouling, Baoji, Shaanxi province. See Kaogu 2 (1979): 103, fig. 6.13; and Zhongguo shehui kexue yuan, Kaogu yanjiusuo [Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences], Baoji Beishouling (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1983), 94, fig. 79.5. Exhibition History Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016 Subjects and Contexts Sedgwick Collection Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
