2006.170.153: Wide-mouthed jar

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2006.170.153

Title

Wide-mouthed jar

Other Titles

Original Language Title: 戰國 原始瓷線紋罐

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

5th-4th century BCE

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Zhejiang Province

Period

Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/190928

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Proto porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze

Dimensions

H. 21.3 x Diam. 28.9 cm (8 3/8 x 11 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, March 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

2006.170.153

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Large ovoid jar with wide mouth, broad shoulders, sides tapering in toward a small flat base, and with two small movable ring handles on the shoulders; the upper body carved with a wide band of vertical ribs, the shoulders decorated with a thin band of ribs, interrupted on either side by a small panel of spiral designs enclosing a ring handle; light gray stoneware with thin natural ash glaze on the upper portion.

Commentary

Compare to:
(1) Proto-porcelain jar of virtually identical form and decoration excavated in 1973 in Xiejiaji district, Huainan, Anhui province, now in the Huainan Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 8: Anhui (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 7.
(2) Remnants of a virtually identical proto-porcelain jar excavated in 1979 from a Warring-States tomb site at Liuquan, Xinjiang county, Shanxi province, now in the Houma Workstation, Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 5: Shanxi (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 5.
(3) Very similar proto-porcelain jar with more tapered lower half excavated in 2008-2009 from the Warring States period (475 – 221 BCE) Tingziqiao kiln site in the Economic Development Zone of Deqing County, Zhejiang province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 12 (2009): 10, fig. 11.
(4) Unglazed jar of virtually identical form and decoration attributed to the Warring States period in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, New York (accession no. 50.61.10). See Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 2nd ed. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989), 26-27, fig. 30.

Subjects and Contexts

• Sedgwick Collection

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