2006.170.28.A-B: Small jar with anthropomorphic cover
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.28.A-B
- Title
- Small jar with anthropomorphic cover
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 馬家窯文化半山類型 彩陶人形蓋罐
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- Banshan phase, c. 2650-2300 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Neolithic period, Majiayao culture, c. 3300-2000 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/173621
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
- Dimensions
- H. (with cover) 13.1 x W. (across handles) 14.3 x Diam. 11.5 cm (5 3/16 x 5 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, June 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
- 2006.170.28.A-B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Small ovoid jar with two lug handles, zigzag mouth opening, and fitted cover with knob in the form of a human head; buff earthenware with geometric decoration painted in black slip. Majiayao culture, Banshan type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Vessel covers in the form of human heads excavated in Banshan, Guanghe county, Gansu province, now in the Museum for Far Eastern Antiquities. See Zhang Pengchuan, Zhongguo caitao tu pu [Handbook of Illustrations of Chinese Painted Pottery] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1990), nos. 552 and 553.
Exhibition History
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
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Verification Level
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