2006.170.238: Wide-mouthed jar with bail handle
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.238
- Title
- Wide-mouthed jar with bail handle
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 唐至五代 青銅罐
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 9th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Tang dynasty, 618-907
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/191003
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Turned bronze
- Dimensions
- H. 10.6 x Diam. 12.2 cm (4 3/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, August 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
- 2006.170.238
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Small ovoid jar with wide mouth, short neck, flattened shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small flat base, and a movable bail handle with each end attached to a pair of leaf-shaped tab at the shoulders.
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