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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.102
Title
Tripod steamer (yan)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 山東龍山文化 灰陶甗
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 2600-2000 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shandong province
Period
Neolithic period, Shandong Longshan culture, c. 2600-2000 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/190929

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
H. 33.8 x Diam. 21.9 cm (13 5/16 x 8 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[J.J. Lally & Co., 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
2006.170.102
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Tripod cooking vessel known as a yan, the upper half in the form of a wide-mouthed cauldron with everted rim and two lug handles, the lower half globular in shape and raised on three small legs; buff earthenware with medium gray skin and applique handles. Longshan culture; from Shandong province.
Commentary
Compare to:
Gray earthenware steamers of similar form excavated from a Longshan site at Sanlihe, Jiaoxian, Shandong province. See Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan kaogu yanjiusuo [Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences], Jiaoxian Sanlihe [Report on the Excavation of the Sanlihe Site] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1988), pl. 58:1 and 65.2.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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