2006.170.184: Large jar (weng)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2006.170.184

Title

Large jar (weng)

Other Titles

Original Language Title: 春秋 印紋陶瓮

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

6th-5th century BCE

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China

Period

Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period, 770-476 BCE

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/317262

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Earthenware with impressed decor

Dimensions

H. 46.5 x Diam. 42 cm (18 5/16 x 16 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Sotheby's, New York, 22-23 March 1999, lot. 337] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), 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

2006.170.184

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Large jar with everted rim, short neck, broad shoulders, and lower portion tapering inward to a small flat base; medium gray earthenware with impressed geometric decoration.

Commentary

Compare to:
Earthenware jar of similar form with closely related decor excavated in 2010 from a Spring and Autumn period earth-mound tomb near Mount Zhenshan, Suzhou, Jiangsu province, now in the Archaeological Institute of Suzhou City. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 5 (2016): 7, figs. 6-7.

Publication History

• Fine Chinese Works of Art and Snuff Botles, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, March 22-23, 1999), lot 337

Subjects and Contexts

• Sedgwick Collection

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