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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.155
Title
Tripod cauldron (ding)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 戰國 原始瓷鼎
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
5th-4th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Zhejiang Province
Period
Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/176955

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Proto porcelain: stoneware with ash glaze
Dimensions
H. 19.8 x W. (across handles) 20.1 x Diam. 20.6 cm (7 13/16 x 7 15/16 x 8 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Uragami Sokyu-do Co., Ltd., Tokyo, July 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
2006.170.155
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Tripod cauldron with two U-shaped handles rising vertically from the rim supported by three slightly splayed footed legs; light gray stoneware with thin layer of ash glaze.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Proto-porcelain “ding” vessel of closely related form and glazing excavated from a Warring States period site at Shangzao village, Shaoxing county, Zhejiang province, now in the Shaoxing Office for Preservation and Management of Cultural Relics. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 9: Zhejiang (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 10.
(2) Ceramic “ding” type tripod vessel of similar form but without ash glaze excavated in 2011 from a Warring States period earth mound tomb at the Taozhuang site in Xinshi town, Dangtu county, Anhui province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 10 (2013): 30, fig. 11.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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