- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2002.255
- Title
- Amphora with Flaring Mouth and Two Lug Handles and with Cord-Marked Decor
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- Qijia culture, 2200 BCE - 1500 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Neolithic period
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/99837
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Reddish buff earthenware with appliqué handles and cord-impressed decoration. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.
- Dimensions
- 44 x 28.2 x 24.5 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
- Provenance
- Source: The Chinese Porcelain Company
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Acquired with a fund established by Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane for the purchase of Asian art
- Accession Year
- 2002
- Object Number
- 2002.255
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Elizabeth LaDuc, "Technical Study of Chinese Ceramics from the Qijia Culture (c.2200-1600 BCE)" (2016)
- Exhibition History
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Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016
- Related Works
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