2006.170.60: Spouted jug with anthropomorphic top
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.60
- Title
- Spouted jug with anthropomorphic top
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 齊家文化 陶盉
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 2300-1500 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Qijia culture, c. 2300-1500 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/182444
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Earthenware
- Dimensions
- H. 18.4 x Diam. 12.3 cm (7 1/4 x 4 13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, March 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
- 2006.170.60
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Pouring vessel with angular neck, ovoid body, strap handle attached from rim to shoulder, tubular spout, and opening in the form of a laughing human face; buff earthenware. Qijia culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
(1) Earthenware ewer of related form, but without a face, in Gansu Provincial Museum collection. See Sekai Tōji Zenshū [Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 10 (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1982), 149, pl. 130.
(2) Earthenware ewer of related form in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities collection, Stockholm. See Margit Bylin-Althin, “The Sites of Ch’i Chia Ping and Lo Han T’ang in Kansu,” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 18 (1946): 383-498, pl. 23.1.
Publication History
- Ancient Chinese Ceramics & Tomb Sculpture, March 20 to April 8, 2000, auct. cat., J.J. Lally & Co. (New York, NY, 2000), no. 5
- Elizabeth LaDuc, "Technical Study of Chinese Ceramics from the Qijia Culture (c.2200-1600 BCE)" (2016)
Exhibition History
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
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