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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.12
Title
Long-necked jar
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 馬家窯文化馬家窯類型 彩陶壺
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/176895

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
Dimensions
H. 35.5 x W. 34.5 (across handles) x Diam. 31 cm (14 x 13 9/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, December 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
2006.170.12
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Ovoid vessel with everted lip, cylindrical neck, angled shoulders, lower body tapering inward to a 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 four medallions of dots and crossed lines evenly spaced around the vessel, each surrounded by curvilinear triangles, arcs, and wavy or parallel lines. Majiayao culture, Majiayao type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Jar of similar form and decoration, but with bichrome painted decor, excavated in 1975 from a Majiayao site in Dujiatai, Yongdeng county, 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. 55, pp. 99 and 265.
(2) Smaller jar with similar decoration, but without lug handles excavated in 1978 from a Majiayao site in Hetaozhuang, Minhe county, Qinghai province, now in the Qinghai Provincial Research Institute for Cultural Relics and Archaeology. See ibid., no. 61, pp. 104 and 267.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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