- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2006.170.5
- Title
- Rounded bowl
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 仰韶文化半坡類型 彩陶缽
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- Banpo phase, c. 5000-4000 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shaanxi province
- Period
- Neolithic period, Yangshao culture, c. 5000-3000 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/192063
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
- Dimensions
- H. 8.4 x Diam. 21.8 cm (3 5/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
- Provenance
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, January 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
- 2006.170.5
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Shallow hemispherical bowl with rounded sides curving inward to a slightly flattened convex base; red earthenware lightly burnished on interior and exterior; decorated on the exterior around the lip with a wide band painted in brown slip before firing; some whitish encrustations from burial. Early Yangshao culture, Banpo type. From the middle Yellow River valley region, Shaanxi province.
- Commentary
- Compare to:
Bowl of similar shape, decoration, and size excavated from a Banpo site in Beishouling, Baoji, Shaanxi province. See Zhongguo shehui kexue yuan, Kaogu yanjiusuo [Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences], Baoji Beishouling (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1983), 94, fig. 79.14, and pl. 31.4.
- Exhibition History
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Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016
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