Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.42: Broad-shouldered jar Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Broad-shouldered jar , 2006.170.42,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/191001. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.42 Title Broad-shouldered jar Other Titles Original Language Title: 馬家窯文化馬厰類型 彩陶壺 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date Machang phase, c. 2300-2000 BCE Places Creation Place: East Asia, China Period Neolithic period, Majiayao culture, c. 3300-2000 BCE Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/191001 Physical Descriptions Medium Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration Dimensions H. 41.2 x W. (across handles) 43.1 x Diam. 41.4 cm (16 1/4 x 16 15/16 x 16 5/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 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 Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund Accession Year 2006 Object Number 2006.170.42 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Ovoid jar with short neck, broad rounded shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small, flat base, and two strap lug handles positioned bilaterally below the shoulder; buff earthenware with geometric decoration painted in black and burgundy slips; decoration around the shoulders includes designs of stylized headless anthropomorphic figures alternating with round cartouches of crosshatched patterns. Majiayao culture, Machang type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province. Commentary Compare to: (1) Jar of same form with very similar designs painted in black excavated from a Machang site in Liuwan, Ledu, Qinghai province. See Yang Xiaoneng, Chinese Archaeology: New Perspectives on China’s Ancient Past in the Twentieth Century, vol. 2 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press), 74-75, fig. 28b. (2) Jar of same form with similar bichrome painted design excavated in 1977 from a Machang site in Sanjia, Minhe county, Qinghai province, now at the Qinghai Painted Pottery Research Center. See Zhongguo taoci quanji (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics), vol. 1: Xinshiqi shidai (Neolithic period) (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 121, pp. 151 and 287. (3) Jar of same form with similar bichrome painted design excavated in Gansu, now at the Gansu Provincial Museum. See ibid., no. 141, pp. 165 and 293. Exhibition History Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016 Subjects and Contexts Sedgwick Collection Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
