- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2006.170.69
- Title
- Double-handled jar
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 寺窪文化 陶雙耳罐
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 1300-500 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Siwa culture, c. 1300-500 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/174175
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Earthenware
- Dimensions
- H. 40 x Diam. 33.2 cm (15 3/4 x 13 1/16 in.)
- Provenance
- [The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, May 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), 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
- 2006.170.69
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Large jar with curved, “saddle-shaped” mouth with oval cross-section, broad shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small, flat base, and two strap handles attached from rim to top of shoulders; red earthenware with dark gray irregular markings from firing. Siwa culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu of Shaanxi province.
- Commentary
- Compare to:
Jar of similar form unearthed from a Siwa culture site in Disiping, Lianlu, Kangle county, Gansu province, now in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture Museum, Gansu. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 2: Xia, Shang, Zhou, Chunqiu, Zhanguo [Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 90, pp. 104 and 252.
- Exhibition History
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Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016
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