2006.170.111: Tripod cooking vessel (li)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2006.170.111

Title

Tripod cooking vessel (li)

Other Titles

Original Language Title: 夏家店下層文化 陶鬲

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

c. 2000-1500 BCE

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Inner Mongolia (Nei Menggu)

Period

Lower Xiajiadian culture, c. 2000-1500 BCE

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/196998

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gray earthenware

Dimensions

H. 25.8 x W. 11.5 x Diam. 16.3 cm (10 3/16 x 4 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, October 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 Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art

Accession Year

2006

Object Number

2006.170.111

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Elongated tripod vessel of cylindrical form raised on three short conical feet and with wide, flared mouth; medium gray earthenware burnished to a smooth black surface. Vessels of this shape are unique to Lower Xiajiadian culture, whose type site of Xiajiadian is in Dadianzi, near Chifeng, eastern Inner Mongolia, northeastern China.

Commentary

Compare to:
(1) Tripod vessel of the same form but with cold-painted decor excavated from a Lower Xiajiadian tomb site at Dadianzi, Chifeng, Aohan Banner, Inner Mongolia, now in the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 2: Xia, Shang, Zhou, Chunqiu, Zhanguo [Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 81, pp. 95 and 249.
(2) Tripod vessel of similar form and size and with burnished surface excavated from the same site mentioned above. See Kaogu jinghua Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan kaogu yanjiusuo jiansuo sishinian jinian [Select Archaeological Finds, Album to the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences] (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 1993), 131, fig. 103.2.

Subjects and Contexts

• Sedgwick Collection

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