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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.164.A-B
Title
Large covered jar (hu)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 西漢 灰陶蓋壺
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
2nd-1st century BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province
Period
Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198019

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray earthenware with cold painted pigment on interior
Dimensions
H. 67.8 x Diam. 43 cm (26 11/16 x 16 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Berwald Oriental Art, London, 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
2006.170.164.A-B
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Large covered jar with slightly flared mouth, waisted cylindrical neck, sloping shoulders, and globular body raised on a short, circular pedestal foot; three evenly spaced horizontal bands raised in relief encircle the body; two molded pushou-masks intended to support ring handles (now lost) positioned just below shoulders; light gray earthenware with molded applique decoration and burnished surfaces; the interior of the neck and cover with cold-painted red pigment.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Earthenware vessel of closely related form, with pushou ring-handles excavated in 2004 from a late Western Han period (2nd-1st century BCE) brick tomb in Luoyang, Henan province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 11 (2006): 25, fig. 9.
(2) Earthenware vessel of similar form with pushou ring-handles and geometric bands excavated in 1992 from a late Western Han dynasty (2nd-1st century BCE) brick tomb in Luoyang, Henan province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 7 (1994): 24, fig. 2.
(3) Large earthenware hu vessels of closely related form but with surface painted in white and red excavated in 1992 from a late Western Han dynasty (2nd-1st century BCE) brick tomb in Qiantougou Village, Luoyang, Henan province, now in Luoyang Ancient Tomb Museum. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 5 (1993): 6, fig. 8 and 10.
(4) Large covered earthenware hu vessel of similar form but with extensive remains cold-painted pigments attributed to the Western Han period in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, New York (accession no. 1986.170). See Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 2nd ed. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989), color pl. 1.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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