Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.138.A-B: Covered Bowl Vessels Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Covered Bowl , 2006.170.138.A-B,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Jun 23, 2025, https://hvrd.art/o/178617. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.138.A-B Title Covered Bowl Other Titles Original Language Title: 春秋 硬陶蓋盂 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 7th-5th century BCE Places Creation Place: East Asia, China Period Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period, 770-476 BCE Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/178617 Physical Descriptions Medium Stoneware with impressed decoration Dimensions H. 5 x W. (across handle) 11.5 x Diam. 11.1 cm (1 15/16 x 4 1/2 x 4 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 2006.170.138.A-B Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Small compressed bowl with three tab-handles evenly spaced around the shoulder; body tapers slightly inward to flat base; separate cover is slightly domed with small knob handle at the center; light gray stoneware with impressed fabric-weave decoration on the bowl’s body; traces of natural kiln gloss on top of cover. Commentary Compare to: (1) Small covered bowl of similar form with two small handles excavated in 2007-08 from a late Spring and Autumn period (5th century BCE) earth-mound tomb in Zhouzhuang county, Huaiyin, Jiangsu province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 11 (2010): 11, fig. 13. (2) Small, covered bowl of closely related form with two small handles and wavy patterns excavated in 1988 from an early Spring and Autumn period (late 8th-early 7th century BCE) earth-mound tomb in Hekou, Shucheng county, Anhui province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 6 (1990): 63, fig. 10. (3) Very similar mesh-impressed covered vessel attributed to the early Warring States period in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, New York (accession no. 1986.75.2). See Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 2nd ed. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989), 37, fig. 33. Subjects and Contexts Sedgwick Collection Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
