From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Conjoined jars

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2006.170.64
Title: Conjoined jars
Other Titles: Original Language Title: 齊家文化陶雙聯罐
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: c. 2300-1500 BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Qijia culture, c. 2300-1500 BCE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/148274

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
Dimensions: H. 15.8 x W. 19 x D. 14.5 cm (6 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 5 11/16 in.)

Provenance

[The Chinese Porcelain Company, 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 the Acquisition of Oriental Art
Accession Year: 2006
Object Number: 2006.170.64
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
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Descriptions

Description: Small twin jars with short necks, globular bodies, and strap loop handles, the jars joined at the body, with an opening between them on the interior; buff earthenware with geometric decoration painted in orange-red slip. Qijia culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.

Publication History

Transitory and Timeless: Ancient Chinese Pottery, auct. cat., The Chinese Porcelain Company (New York, 2002), no. 56, p. 43

Exhibition History

Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016

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