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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.168.A-B
Title
Lacquer-coated wide-bodied jar
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 戰國/西漢 漆繪陶壺
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
3rd-2nd century BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/189739

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lacquered earthenware
Technique
Lacquered
Dimensions
H. 34.1 x Diam. 32.4 cm (13 7/16 x 12 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kaikodo, New York, April 2000] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2000-2006), 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
2006.170.168.A-B
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Covered wide-bellied jar with broad shoulders slanting inward to a waisted cylindrical neck crowned by a flattened, everted mouth rim; lower half of vessel walls slant inward to a small flat base; conical lid with finial knob at center; wide plain band raised in low-relief encircles the vessel just below the shoulder, two narrow bands in relief encircle the neck; light gray earthenware with molded elements covered all over with dark brown lacquer.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Covered of the same form but with no lacquer coating excavated in 1992 from an early Western Han tomb in Xiaojia caochang, Jingzhou, Hubei province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 6 (1999): 45, fig. 39.
(2) Covered, storage jar with geometric pattern but no lacquer coating excavated in 1975 from an early Western Han tomb in Jiangling, Hubei province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 10 (1976): pl. 2.2.
(3) A set of lacquer coated ceramics of various shapes excavated in 1987 from an early Western Han tomb in Huoshan County, Anhui province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 9 (1991): pl. 5.2-6.

Publication History

  • Kaikodo Journal, Vol. 12 (Autumn 1999), auct. cat., Kaikodo (New York, 1999), no. 44, pp. 188-189 and 300-301

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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