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Object Number

2006.170.10

Title

Large Bulbous Jar or Bottle with Flaring Lip and Abstract Décor

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

late Yangshao to early Majiayao culture, Shilingxia phase, c. 3500-3000 BCE

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Gansu province

Period

Neolithic period

Culture

Chinese

Medium

Buff earthenware with decoration painted in dark brown slip, the surface lightly burnished before firing. Upper Yellow River Valley area; probably from Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province. Majiayao Culture, possibly Shinlingxia phase (4000-3600 BC), probably early Majiayao phase (3300-2900 BC).

Dimensions

H. 37.8 x Diam. 29 cm (14 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.)

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

2006.170.10

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Transitory and Timeless: Ancient Chinese Pottery, auct. cat., The Chinese Porcelain Company (New York, 2002), no. 5, pp. 7 and 14

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