- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2006.170.53
- Title
- Jar with anthropomorphic feet
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 齊家文化 人足形陶罐
- 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/191055
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Earthenware with cord-impressed decoration
- Dimensions
- H. 15.9 x Diam. 11.6 cm (6 1/4 x 4 9/16 in.)
- Provenance
- [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
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through a fund established by Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane for the purchase of Asian art
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.53
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Small jar with short, constricted neck, globular body, two booted human feet, and two strap handles; gray earthenware with applique handles and feet and cord-impressed decoration. Qijia culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.
Note:
A sample taken from the handle of this vessel was thermoluminescence (TL) tested at Oxford Authentication Ltd. in November 1999 and determined to be consistent with the suggested period of manufacture. - Commentary
- Compare to:
Two-handled jar with anthropomorphic feet and painted décor excavated from a Siba culture site in Huoshaogou, Yumen, Gansu province. See Li Yongliang, ed. Helong wenhua: lianjie gudai zhongguo yu shijie de zoulang (Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, 1998), 72, fig. 80.
- Exhibition History
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Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016
- Related Media
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