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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.25
Title
Rounded Bowl
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 馬家窯文化馬家窯類型 彩陶鉢
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/149543

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
Dimensions
H. 9.5 x Diam. 20.3 cm (3 3/4 x 8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), 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
2006.170.25
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Deep bowl with straight sides and lower portion tapering inward to small flat base; buff earthenware with geometric decoration painted in black slip and white pigment. Majiayao culture, Majiayao type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Bowl with similar bichrome painted designs excavated in 1978 from a Majiayao site in upper Sunjia, Datong county, Qinghai province, now in the collection of the Qinghai Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Team. See Zhang Pengchuan, Zhongguo caitao tu pu [Handbook of Chinese Painted Pottery Illustrations] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1990), no. 240.
(2) Bowl of related form with similar painted designs excavated in 1976 from a Majiayao site in Datong county, Qinghai province. See Qinghao caitao [Painted Pottery from Qinghai] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1980), no. 10, p. 10, and color pl. 5.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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