- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1927.35
- Title
- Large, Ovoid Jar with Cylindrical Neck, Flaring Lip, Two Loop Handles, and Geometric Decoration of So-called "Yoke" or "Ram's Horn" Pattern
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1600-600 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Xindian culture, c. 1600-600 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/209214
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Coarse buff earthenware with decoration painted in black slip over a slip-dressed ground. Upper Yellow River Valley area; from Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
- Dimensions
- H. 44.1 x Diam. 37.8 cm (17 3/8 x 14 7/8 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Second Fogg Expedition to China Fund
- Accession Year
- 1927
- Object Number
- 1927.35
- 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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