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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.129
Title
Jar
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 西周 原始青瓷罐
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
9th-8th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Zhou dynasty, Western Zhou period, c. 1050-771 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/54471

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Proto-porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
Dimensions
H. 22.2 x Diam. 19.2 cm (8 3/4 x 7 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Uragami Sokyu-do Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 2004] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2004-2006), 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 Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.170.129
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Jar with articulated lip, straight sides, and flat base; light gray stoneware with thin olive-green ash glaze over incised and applique decoration. From Jiangsu or Zhejiang province.
Commentary
Compare to:
Jar of different form but with similar decoration and glaze excavated from a Western Zhou site in Longyou county, Quzhou, Zhejiang province, now in the Quzhou 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. 100, pp. 112 and 256.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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