- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1993.226
- Title
- Ovoid Storage Jar with Two Lug Handles, with Short Neck and Flaring Lip, and with Abstract Spiral Decor
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- Majiayao cutlure, Banshan phase, 2650 BCE - 2350 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Neolithic period
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/200286
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Buff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips, the surface burnished before firing. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
- Dimensions
- H. 30 x Diam. 33.4 cm (11 13/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Acquired with a fund established by Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane for the purchase of Asian art
- Accession Year
- 1993
- Object Number
- 1993.226
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- 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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