Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.209: Long-necked jar (hu) Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Long-necked jar (hu) , 2006.170.209,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/188083. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.209 Title Long-necked jar (hu) Other Titles Original Language Title: 漢 原始瓷壺 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 1st century BCE-1st century CE Places Creation Place: East Asia, China Period Han dynasty, 206 BCE-220 CE Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/188083 Physical Descriptions Medium Proto-porcelain ware: stoneware with natural ash glaze Dimensions H. 43.3 x Diam. 37.2 cm (17 1/16 x 14 5/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 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 2006.170.209 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Globular jar with flared mouth, cylindrical neck, globular body, lower portion of body tapering inward to a countersunk base, and two loop supports for simulated ring handles on the shoulders; three horizontal ridged borders encircle the shoulders, creating wide horizontal friezes with decoration of stylized animals and scrolling clouds; light gray stoneware with thin natural ash glaze over top portion of vessel, the lower half and base unglazed. One of a pair with 2006.270.208. Note: Samples taken from the base of this vessel were thermoluminescence (TL) tested at Oxford Authentication Ltd. in September 1999 and determined to be consistent with the suggested period of manufacture. Commentary Compare to: (1) Covered proto-porcelain jar of closely related form with same scrolling-cloud pattern excavated in 1992 from an Eastern Han brick tomb in Luoyang city, Henan province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 12 (1992): 13, fig. 11.5. (2) Proto-porcelain jar of related form and decoration excavated in 2002 from a mid-Western Han dynasty wooden chamber tomb in Luoyang city, Henan province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 7 (2007): 46, figs. 13-14. (3) Proto-porcelain jar of related form excavated in 2004 from a late Western Han dynasty wooden chamber tomb in Luoyang city, Henan province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 11 (2006): 27, figs. 14 and 16. Publication History Abstraction and Reality: Chinese Art from the Warring States to the Liao (An Exhibition and Sale, 6-28 October 1999), auct. cat., The Chinese Porcelain Company (New York, 1999), no. 2, pp. 16-19 The Chinese Porcelain Company: A Dealer's Record, 1985-2000, auct. cat., The Chinese Porcelain Company (New York, 2000), p. 56 Subjects and Contexts Sedgwick Collection Related Works 2006.170.208 Long-necked jar (hu) Vessels Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
