- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2006.170.14
- Title
- Wide-mouthed jar with pictorial decoration
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 馬家窯文化馬家窯類型 彩陶罐
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- Majiayao phase, c. 3300-2650 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Neolithic period, Majiayao culture, c. 3300-2000 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/148480
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
- Dimensions
- H. 19.2 x W. (across handles) 27.3 x Diam. 23.2 cm (7 9/16 x 10 3/4 x 9 1/8 in.)
- Provenance
- [The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 2002] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2002-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through a fund established by Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane for the purchase of Asian art
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.14
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Compressed ovoid vessel with flat, everted rim, sloping shoulders, lower half tapering inward to a flat base, and two loop handles positioned bilaterally at the midsection; buff earthenware lightly burnished and decorated with pictorial designs painted in dark black slip on the upper half and rim before firing; painted designs include zoomorphic frog- or turtle-like creatures with human heads on one side and wavy lines reminiscent of flowing water on the other. Majiayao culture, Majiayao type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
- Publication History
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Transitory and Timeless: Ancient Chinese Pottery, auct. cat., The Chinese Porcelain Company (New York, 2002), no. 16, pp. 20-21
- Exhibition History
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32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/14/2016 - 04/18/2016
Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016
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