2006.170.85: Stem cup

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2006.170.85

Title

Stem cup

Other Titles

Original Language Title: 大汶口文化 黑陶高柄杯

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

c. 4300-2600 BCE

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China

Period

Neolithic period, Dawenkou culture, c. 4300-2600 BCE

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/182460

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black earthenware

Dimensions

H. 23.4 x Diam. 8.8 cm (9 3/16 x 3 7/16 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

2006.170.85

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Waisted cup with flared lip supported on an elongated hollow stem perforated with alternating columns of circular and triangular openings; thinly potted, lightly burnished blackened earthenware. Dawenkou culture. From the middle and lower Yellow River valley regions; Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and eastern Henan provinces.

Commentary

Compare to:
(1) Very similar black stem cup with columns of perforated circles and triangles excavated in 1974-75 from a Dawenkou site at Sanlihe, Jiaoxian, Shandong province. See Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan kaogu yanjiusuo [Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences], Jiaoxian Sanlihe [Report on the Excavation of the Sanlihe Site] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1988), 74, fig. 41:11 and pl. 18:1 (far right).
(2) Black stem cup of similar shape and small-sized circular perforations also excavated at Sanlihe, Jiaoxian county, Shandong province, now in the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. See Zhongguo taoci quanji (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics), vol. 1: Xinshiqi shidai (Neolithic period) (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 166, pp. 183 and 302.
(3) Stem cup of closely related form excavated from a Dawenkou site at Qianzhai, Zhucheng county, Shandong province, now in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology collection, Beijing. See Treasures from a Swallow Garden: Inaugural Exhibit of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology (Beijing: Peking University, 1992), cat. 26, pp. 79-80.
(4) Zhongguo meishu quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Art], vol. 34: Taociqi yi [Ceramics, part 1] (Hefei: Huangshan shushe, 2010), 43 (right).

Subjects and Contexts

• Sedgwick Collection

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