2006.170.149: Wide-mouthed jar
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.149
- Title
- Wide-mouthed jar
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 戰國至西漢 印紋硬陶罐
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 3rd-2nd century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Warring States period (475-221 BCE) to Western Han period (206 BCE-9 CE)
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/197049
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gray stoneware
- Dimensions
- H. 34.8 x Diam. 46 cm (13 11/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Galerie Gisèle Croës - Arts d'Extreme-Orient, Brussels, Belgium, June 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
- 2006.170.149
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Large wide-mouthed jar with broad shoulders and flat base; light gray stoneware with impressed basket-weave decor.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Large wide-mouthed jar of similar form with basket-weave decor excavated in 2010 from a late Warring States period (475 – 221 BCE) or early Western Han (206 BCE – 9 CE) earth-mound tomb near Mount Zhenshan in High-tech District, Suzhou, Jiangsu province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 5 (2016): 9, fig. 13.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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