From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Small jar with strap handle

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2006.170.36
Title: Small jar with strap handle
Other Titles: Original Language Title: 馬家窯文化半山類型陶單耳小罐
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: Banshan phase, c. 2650-2300 BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Period: Neolithic period, Majiayao culture, c. 3300-2000 BCE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/165055

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Earthenware with impressed decoration
Dimensions: H. 12.2 x Diam. 13 cm (4 13/16 x 5 1/8 in.)

Provenance

[The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 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 the Acquisition of Oriental Art
Accession Year: 2006
Object Number: 2006.170.36
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
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Descriptions

Description: Small jar with bulbous body, lower portion tapering inward to a small, flat base, and with single strap handle; light gray earthenware with applique handle and impressed decoration forming vertical ribs on the body. Majiayao culture, Banshan type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; southern Ningxia province.
Commentary: Compare to:
(1) Small red earthenware jar of closely related form excavated from a Banshan cemetery in Dibaping, Guanghe county, Gansu province. See Kaogu Xuebao 2 (1978): 193-210, pl. 9.5.
(2) Small earthenware jars of similar form excavated from a Banshan tomb in Huazhaizi, near Lanzhou, Gansu province. See Kaogu Xuebao 2 (1980): 221-38, pl. 7.3 and pl. 8.1.

Exhibition History

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

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