2006.170.130: Jar with two handles

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2006.170.130

Title

Jar with two handles

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

8th-7th 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/99841

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Proto-porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze

Dimensions

H. 21.1 x W. (across handles) 22.5 x Diam. 25.5 cm (8 5/16 x 8 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2003] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2003-2006), 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

2006.170.130

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Ovoid jar with articulated neck, narrow shoulders, sides widening toward a flat base, and two lug handles ornamented with stylized zoomorphic heads; light gray stoneware with transparent olive-green glaze over applique handles and abstract designs impressed repeatedly over the entirety of the body, the glaze on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. From Jiangsu or Zhejiang province.

Commentary

Compare to:
(1) Proto-porcelain jar of very similar form and handles and with closely related stamped decoration and glaze excavated from a Spring-and-Autumn site in Zhouzhuang, Jiangyin, Jiangsu province, now in the Changzhou Museum, Jiangsu. See Zhongguo meishu quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Art], vol. 35: Taociqi er [Ceramics, part 2] (Hefei: Huangshan shushe, 2010), 238 (bottom).
(2) Jar of different form but with very similar stamped designs and glaze excavated from a Spring-and-Autumn site in Lishui county, Jiangsu province. 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. 177, pp. 167 and 281.
(3) Jar of different form but with similar stamped designs and yellow-green glaze excavated from a Western Zhou site at Fushan Guoyuan, Jurong, Jiangsu province, now in the Zhenjiang Museum, Jiangsu. See ibid., no. 93, pp. 107 and 253.
(4) Large globular proto-porcelain jar with similar stamped designs excavated from a Western Zhou site at Yongning, Gaochun, Jiangsu province, now in the Zhenjiang Museum, Jiangsu. See ibid., no. 98, pp. 110 and 255.
(5) Proto-porcelain jar of similar form and related stamped design excavated from a Western Zhou tomb at Tashan, Deqing county, Zhejiang province, now in the Deqing Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 9: Zhejiang (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 5.

Subjects and Contexts

• Sedgwick Collection

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