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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.132
Title
Wide-mouthed Jar
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 春秋 黑色硬陶罐
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
6th-5th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period, 770-476 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/190162

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray stoneware with blackened surface
Dimensions
H. 10 x Diam. 15.5 cm (3 15/16 x 6 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, November 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
2006.170.132
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Small wide-mouthed jar with short neck and two striated loop handles; three small feet on base; light-gray earthenware with blackened surface and bands of geometric decoration impressed around the waist and neck of jar.
Commentary
Compare to:
Small jar of closely related form with two loop handles and decorative bands but without the geometric decor excavated in 2010 from a mid- to late Spring and Autumn period (6th-5th century BCE) earth-mound tomb near Mount Zhenshan, Suzhou, Jiangsu province, now in the Archaeological Institute of Suzhou City. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 5 (2016): 9, fig. 17.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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