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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.134
Title
Tall, wide-mouthed jar
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 春秋至戰國 印紋硬陶罐
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
5th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Zhou dynasty, Eastern Zhou period, 770-256 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/317258

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray stoneware with impressed decoration
Dimensions
H. 35.7 x Diam. 26.8 cm (14 1/16 x 10 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Zentner Collection, San Francisco, 1997] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1997-2006), 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
2006.170.134
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Tall, wide-mouthed jar with short neck and broad shoulders; body tapers inward to a flat base; light gray stoneware with basket-weave decoration impressed over the entire body.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Tall jar of similar form and basket-weave decor but with reddish body excavated in 1985 from a late Spring and Autumn or early Warring States period (5th century) earth-mound tomb in Yunchaolongwan, Huzhou, Zhejiang province, now in Huzhou City Museum. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 12 (2003): 79, fig. 9-10.
(2) Jar of a different form but with similar impressed decor excavated from a Warring States (475-221 BCE) site in Zengcheng district, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, now in the Guangdong Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 2: Xia, Shang, Zhou, Chunqiu, Zhanguo [Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 242, pp. 218 and 303.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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