- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2006.170.43
- Title
- Broad-shouldered jar
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 馬家窯文化馬厰類型 彩陶壺
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- Machang phase, c. 2300-2000 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Neolithic period, Majiayao culture, c. 3300-2000 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/197661
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
- Dimensions
- H. 40.3 x Diam. 38.7 cm (15 7/8 x 15 1/4 in.)
- Provenance
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, May 1998] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1998-2006), 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
- 2006.170.43
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Ovoid jar with short neck, broad rounded shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small, flat base, and two strap lug handles positioned bilaterally below the shoulder; buff earthenware with geometric decoration painted in black and burgundy slips; decoration around the shoulders includes four large round cartouches containing rings of dotted circles surrounding a smaller circle of crosshatching. Majiayao culture, Machang type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
- Commentary
- Compare to:
(1) Jar of same form with similar bichrome painted design excavated in 1956 from a Machang site in Chujialing, Yongjing county, Gansu province, now at the Gansu Provincial Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics), vol. 1: Xinshiqi shidai (Neolithic period) (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 119, pp. 149 and 286.
(2) Jar of same form with similar proportions and closely related bichrome painted design excavated in 1975 from a Machang site in Liuwan, Ledu, Qinghai province. See Qinghai caitao [Painted Pottery from Qinghai] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1980), no. 52, p. 12.
- 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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