2006.170.120: Tripod cauldron (li)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.120
- Title
- Tripod cauldron (li)
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 商 灰陶鬲
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- Probably 16th-15th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Shang dynasty, c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/182492
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gray earthenware
- Dimensions
- H. 13.8 x Diam. 12.7 cm (5 7/16 x 5 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J. J. Lally & Co., New York, June 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), 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
- 2006.170.120
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Tripod cooking vessel of bulbous form with waited neck, flared mouth, the legs tapering to small rounded feet, light gray earthenware with stippled and cord-impressed decoration.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
(1) Gray pottery li tripod vessels of closely related form and similar textured surface excavated in 1972 from a Shang tomb site at Anyang, Henan province. See Kaogu 5 (1972): 15, figs. 8.5-6.
(2) Gray pottery li tripod with similar textured surface excavated from a Shang dynasty site at Luodamiao, Zhengzhou, Henan province, now in the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 2: Xia, Shang, Zhou, Chunqiu, Zhanguo [Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 12, pp. 37 and 226.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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