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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.39
Title
Small jar with tab handle
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 馬家窯文化半山類型 陶小罐
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
Banshan phase, c. 2650-2300 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Period
Neolithic period, Majiayao culture, c. 3300-2000 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/185764

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Earthenware with applique and impressed decoration
Dimensions
H. 12.6 x Diam. 13.4 cm (4 15/16 x 5 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[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

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
2006.170.39
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Small jar with bulbous body, lower portion tapering inward to a small, flat base, and with small tab handle; light gray earthenware with applique handle and applique and impressed decoration forming diagonal lines on the shoulders. Majiayao culture, Banshan type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; southern Ningxia province.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Small gray earthenware jar of slightly different form, but with similar applique decoration excavated from a Banshan cemetery in Dibaping, Guanghe county, Gansu province. See Kaogu Xuebao 2 (1978): 193-210, pl. 9.6.
(2) Small earthenware jars of similar form and applique decoration excavated from a Banshan tomb in Huazhaizi, near Lanzhou, Gansu province. See Kaogu Xuebao 2 (1980): 221-38, pl. 8.2.

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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