Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.211: Funerary jar (hunping) 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"Funerary jar (hunping) , 2006.170.211,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/192061. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.211 Title Funerary jar (hunping) Other Titles Original Language Title: 三國至西晉 越窯青瓷魂瓶 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date late 3rd century Places Creation Place: East Asia, China, Zhejiang Province, Shaoxing Period Three Kingdoms period (220-280) to Western Jin (266-317) Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/192061 Physical Descriptions Medium Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze Technique Celadon Dimensions H. 49 x Diam. 28 cm (19 5/16 x 11 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Kaikodo, New York, September 1998] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1998-2006), 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 2006.170.211 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 Broad-shouldered jar supporting a multi-tiered, tiled-roof architectural complex surrounded by birds, monkeys, dragons, and numerous male figures engaged in various activities; the sides of the jar further embellished with molded appliques of kneeling male figures bearing a staff; light gray stoneware with olive-green celadon glaze over molded and applique decoration; flat, circular base unglazed. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area, northeastern Zhejiang province. Hunping, or “urns of the soul,” were fashioned to house the spirit of individuals and placed in tombs. Such vessels were produced for a relatively short period, from the third to fourth century, in the lower Yangzi River region. Commentary Compare to: (1) Funerary jar with inscription dated to 292 CE excavated from a Western Jin tomb in Wu county, Jiangsu province, now in the Jiangsu Wu County Cultural Relics Management Office collection. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 4: Sanguo, liang Jin, nanbei chao [Three-Kingdoms, Western and Eastern Jin, Northern and Southern dynasties] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 56, pp. 81 and 249. (2) Funerary jar excavated in 1979 from a Western Jin site in Cixi, Zhejiang province, now in the Zhejiang Cixi Municipal Cultural Relics Management Office collection. See ibid., no. 71, pp. 93 and 254. (3) Funerary jar excavated from a Three-Kingdoms period tomb dated to 257 CE in Sicun, Pukouzhen, Shengzhou, Zhejiang province. See ibid., no. 4, pp. 42 and 232. Publication History Kaikodo Journal, Vol. 09 (Autumn 1998), auct. cat., Kaikodo (New York, 1998), no. 52, pp. 140-141 and 239-242 Exhibition History Earthly Delights: 6,000 Years of Asian Ceramics, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022 Subjects and Contexts Sedgwick Collection Related Media 3D Model: Large 'Hunping' Funerary Jar with Tiered Top Representing Figures and Birds Set in an Architectural Complex 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
