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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.32
Title
Broad-shouldered jar
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 馬家窯文化半山類型 彩陶壺
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/176274

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
Dimensions
H. 42.5 x W. (across handles) 44.9 x Diam. 42.5 cm (16 3/4 x 17 11/16 x 16 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kaikodo, New York, 2000] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2000-2006), 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
2006.170.32
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Ovoid jar with short, cylindrical neck, broad shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small, flat base, and two strap lug handles positioned bilaterally below the shoulder; buff earthenware with geometric decoration painted in black and burgundy slips before firing; painted designs include multiple rows of black sawtooth designs encircling the shoulders between horizontal bands of burgundy colored slip. Majiayao culture, Banshan type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
Commentary
Compare to:
Jar of the same form with similar bichrome painted design of horizontal lines was excavated in 1975 from a Banshan site in Yangjialeng, Kangle county, Gansu province, now at the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture Museum, Gansu. See Zhongguo taoci quanji (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics), vol. 1: Xinshiqi shidai (Neolithic period) (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 100, pp. 134 and 280.

Publication History

  • Kaikodo Journal, Vol. 17 (Autumn 2000), auct. cat., Kaikodo (New York, 2000), no. 45, pp. 154-155 and 293

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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