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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.9
Title
Gourd-shaped bottle
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 仰韶文化史家類型 彩陶葫蘆形瓶
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
Shijia phase, c. 4000 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shaanxi province
Period
Neolithic period, Yangshao culture, c. 5000-3000 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/99543

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
Dimensions
H. 30.5 x Diam. 15.8 cm (12 x 6 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2002] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2002-2006), 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
2006.170.9
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Elongated ovoid bottle with mouth and body suggesting the form of a double gourd, the rounded lower portion of the body tapering inward to a flat base; buff earthenware lightly burnished and decorated on the exterior with abstract zoomorphic designs painted in black slip before firing; encrustations from burial. Early middle Yangshao culture, Shijia type.
Commentary
Compare to:
Vessels of similar shape with painted designs excavated in 1975 from a Shijia site in Jiangzhai, Lintong county, Shaanxi province, now in the Shaanxi History Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 1: Xinshiqi shidai [Neolithic period] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), nos. 22-24, pp. 71-73 and 254.

Publication History

  • Bao pu yi tao: Zhongguo xinshiqi shidai de taoqi yu yuqi [Pottery and Jades of China's Neolithic Age], auct. cat., Yunzhongju guwan youxian gongsi (Taibei Shi, 2001), no. 2

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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