- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2006.170.57
- Title
- Jar with cord-marked decor
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 齊家文化 陶罐
- 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/182605
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Earthenware with cord impressed decoration
- Dimensions
- H. 24.4 x W. (across handles) 15.7 x Diam. 13.2 cm (9 5/8 x 6 3/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
- Provenance
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, December 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through a fund established by Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane for the purchase of Asian art
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.57
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Jar with trumpet-shaped, flared mouth, constricted neck, ovoid body, and two loop handles; reddish buff earthenware with applique handles and cord-impressed decoration. Qijia culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.
- Commentary
- Compare to:
1) Jar of similar form and decoration, excavated from a Qijia culture site in Dazuping, Zhuoni county, Gansu province. See Kaogu [Archaeology] 7 (1994): 591, fig. 6:5, and pl 3:1.
2) Jar of similar type in collection of Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm. See Sekai Tōji Zenshū [Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 10 (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1982), 149, pl. 132.
- Publication History
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Elizabeth LaDuc, "Technical Study of Chinese Ceramics from the Qijia Culture (c.2200-1600 BCE)" (2016)
- Exhibition History
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Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016
- Related Works
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