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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.181
Title
Large dome shaped vessel
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 東漢 灰陶壺
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
2nd-3rd century CE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/176360

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray earthenware with incised decoration
Dimensions
H. 22.7 x Diam. 31.5 cm (8 15/16 x 12 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, June 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
2006.170.181
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Dome-shaped vessel with flared mouth, short cylindrical neck, and broad flat base; incised decoration of two fish between linear borders made up of multiple short arcs lined up in a chain, and with two large characters reading “Da Ji” (great good fortune) cut in the same technique on the side opposite the fish; the mouth rim bordered with same pattern of short arcs lines; gray earthenware with incised decoration.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Hu-vessel of different shape but with closely related decoration of two fish and an inscription excavated in 1964 from a late Eastern Han site in Zhengzhou city, Henan province, now in the Henan Museum. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 3 (1990): 96, fig. 1 and 2.
(2) A group of dome-shaped vessels with auspicious cinnabar inscriptions excavated in 1972 from a late Eastern Han site in Zhangwan, Lingbao county, Henan province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 11 (1975): 92, fig. 56.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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