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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.7
Title
Bowl
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 仰韶文化半坡類型 彩陶碗
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/148556

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Earthenware with traces of slip-painted decoration
Dimensions
H. 13 x Diam. 21.2 cm (5 1/8 x 8 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[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

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.170.7
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Large deep bowl with angled sides, the base flat with a lightly concave center; red earthenware lightly burnished and decorated on the exterior around the lip with a wide band painted in pale brown slip before firing; encrustations from burial. Early Yangshao culture, Banpo type. From the middle Yellow River valley region, Shaanxi province.
Commentary
Compare to:
Bowl of similar shape and decoration excavated from a Banpo site in Beishouling, Baoji, Shaanxi province. See Zhongguo shehui kexue yuan, Kaogu yanjiusuo [Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences], Baoji Beishouling (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1983), 94, fig. 79.3, and pl. 28.2.

Publication History

  • Transitory and Timeless: Ancient Chinese Pottery, auct. cat., The Chinese Porcelain Company (New York, 2002), no. 1, p. 12

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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