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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.49
Title
Bird form vessel with anthropomorphic feet
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 四壩文化 彩陶鷹形壺
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 2000-1600 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Gansu province
Period
Siba culture, c. 2000-1600 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/189067

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
Dimensions
H. 29 x L. 50 x W. 30.5 cm (11 7/16 x 19 11/16 x 12 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
James D. Tigerman, Lake Forest, IL (by 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
2006.170.49
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Large container with body in the form of a bird standing on two booted anthropomorphic feet, a cylindrical spout projects from bird’s back; a small, rounded zoomorphic head is a recent modern replacement; buff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips. Siba culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region, probably Gansu province.
Commentary
Compare to:
Vessel of similar footed-bird form, but of much smaller size, unearthed from a Siba site in Huoshaogou, Yumen, Gansu province, now in the Gansu 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. 64, pp. 81 and 244.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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