2006.170.139: Wide-mouthed Jar
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.139
- Title
- Wide-mouthed Jar
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 戰國 印紋硬陶罐
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 4th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/317256
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gray stoneware with impressed decoration
- Dimensions
- H. 11.7 x Diam. 16 cm (4 5/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, October 1997] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (by 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
- 2006.170.139
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Small globular, wide-mouthed jar with very short rim and two pairs of loop handles placed bilaterally on the jar’s shoulders; light gray stoneware with fabric-weave decoration on the body.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Gray stoneware globular jar of similar form, with textured surface and loop handles excavated in 1996-1997 from a mid-Warring States period (4th century BCE) tomb at a weaving factory in Luoyang, Henan province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 12 (2001): 57, fig. 44.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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