Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.13: Bottle 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"Bottle , 2006.170.13,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/173616. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.13 Title Bottle Other Titles Original Language Title: 馬家窯文化馬家窯類型 彩陶瓶 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/173616 Physical Descriptions Medium Earthenware with slip-painted decoration Dimensions H. 20.3 x W. (across handles)14.1 x Diam. 11.4 cm (8 x 5 9/16 x 4 1/2 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Eskenazi, Ltd., London] sold; to [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, by March 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 2006.170.13 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 Small ovoid vessel with everted lip, cylindrical neck, sloping shoulders, lower body tapering inward to a small flat base, and two loop handles just below shoulders; buff earthenware lightly burnished and decorated with abstract designs painted in black slip before firing; painted designs on body, neck, and rim include eye-like dotted roundels surrounded by curvilinear triangles swirling and horizontal lines encircling the neck and lower body. and crossed lines encircling the vessel, each surrounded by curvilinear triangles, arcs, and lines. Majiayao culture, Majiayao type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province. Commentary Compare to: Small painted pottery bottle of similar form with closely related painted decoration excavated in 1973 from a Majiayao site at the Xianghu cemetery, Lanzhou, Gansu province, now in the Gansu Provincial Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 1: Xinshiqi shidai [Neolithic period] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 58, pp. 102 and 266. Exhibition History 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 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
