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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.99
Title
Stem Cup
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 山東龍山文化 黑陶高柄杯
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 2600-2000 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shandong province
Period
Neolithic period, Shandong Longshan culture, c. 2600-2000 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/193287

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black earthenware
Dimensions
H. 26 x Diam. 12.4 cm (10 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Ariadne Gallery, New York, February 1999] 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 Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.170.99
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Waisted cup with flared, everted rim supported on an elaborate hollow stem with a wide cylindrical midsection perforated with five rows of vertical slits; thinly potted, lightly burnished blackened earthenware with incised and openwork decoration. Longshan culture; from Shandong province.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Black pottery stem cup with hollow stem and similar vertical openings excavated from a Longshan site at Sanlihe, Jiaoxian, Shandong province, now in the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. See Zhongguo taoci quanji (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics), vol. 1: Xinshiqi shidai (Neolithic period) (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 201, pp. 212 and 312.
(2) Black pottery stem cup of closely related form excavated in 1976 from a Longshan site at Chengzi, Zhucheng county, Shandong province, now in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology collection, Beijing. See Treasures from a Swallow Garden: Inaugural Exhibit of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology (Beijing: Peking University, 1992), cat. 30, p. 82-83.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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