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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.96
Title
Footed cup
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 山東龍山文化 黑陶杯
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 2600-2000 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shandong province
Period
Neolithic period, Shandong Longshan culture, c. 2600-2000 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/176896

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black earthenware
Dimensions
H. 11.2 x W. 10.3 (across handles) x Diam. 10.1 cm (4 7/16 x 4 1/16 x 4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kaikodo, New York, October 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
2006.170.96
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Small cup raised on a short circular pedestal foot with one vertically oriented loop handle and a smaller horizontally oriented loop handle on the opposite side; lightly burnished blackened earthenware with incised crosshatched decoration and applique handles. Longshan culture; from Shandong province.
Commentary
Compare to:
Black earthenware cup of related form, with two loop handles and similar incised, crosshatched decor excavated from a Longshan site at Sanlihe, Jiaoxian, Shandong province. See Kaogu jinghua Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan kaogu yanjiusuo jiansuo sishinian jinian [Select Archaeological Finds, Album to the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences] (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 1993), 66, fig. 54 (right); and line drawing in Kaogu 4 (1996): 56, fig. 9.6.

Publication History

  • Kaikodo Journal, Vol. 17 (Autumn 2000), auct. cat., Kaikodo (New York, 2000), no. 46, pp. 156-157 and 293

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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