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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.55
Title
Small jar with three strap handles
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 齊家文化 陶三耳小罐
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 2300-1500 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Qijia culture, c. 2300-1500 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/191000

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Earthenware with traces of cinnabar
Dimensions
H. 9.4 x W. (across handles) 11 x Diam. 9 cm (3 11/16 x 4 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[James Freeman, Kyoto, July 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
2006.170.55
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Small hourglass-shaped jar with flared mouth, constricted waist, and flared lower half; with three strap handles attached from lip to base; thinly potted red earthenware with applique handles and traces of cinnabar. Qijia culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.
Commentary
Compare to:
Earthenware jar with three handles excavated from Liuwan, Ledu county, Qinghai province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 1 (1976): 78, fig. 33 (middle).
Earthenware jar with three handles excavated from Shizhaocun, Tianshui, Gansu province. See Kaogu [Archaeology] 7 (1990): 584, fig. 10.3.

Publication History

  • Elizabeth LaDuc, "Technical Study of Chinese Ceramics from the Qijia Culture (c.2200-1600 BCE)" (2016)

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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