Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.78.A-B: Small covered jar Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Small covered jar , 2006.170.78.A-B,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/149547. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.78.A-B Title Small covered jar Other Titles Original Language Title: 大汶口文化 彩陶蓋小罐 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date c. 4300-2600 BCE Places Creation Place: East Asia, China Period Neolithic period, Dawenkou culture, c. 4300-2600 BCE Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/149547 Physical Descriptions Medium Earthenware with cold painted pigmentEarthenware with cold painted pigment Dimensions with cover: H. 12 x Diam. 8.4 cm (4 3/4 x 3 5/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Nicholas Grindley, London, 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), 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 2006.170.78.A-B Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Covered cylindrical jar with three small triangular tabs descending from a flat rim, the conical cover with conical-dish shaped knob; thinly potted gray earthenware with abstract decoration cold-painted in red pigment. Dawenkou culture. From the middle and lower Yellow River valley regions; Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and eastern Henan provinces. Commentary Compare to: (1) Earthenware jar of very similar form with similar knobbed cover excavated in 1959 at Dawenkou, Tai’an, Shandong province. See Shandong sheng wenwu guanlichu [Shandong Bureau of Cultural Relics Management], Dawenkou: xinshiqi shidai muzang fajue baogao [Dawenkou: Neolithic period cemetery excavation report] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1974), pl. 71.1. (2) Earthenware cup of similar form, with same flattened rim and small triangular tabs also excavated at Dawenkou. See ibid., pl. 72.8. Subjects and Contexts Sedgwick Collection Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
