2006.170.36: Small jar with strap handle
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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
- Recorded Ownership History
- [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 Asian Art
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.36
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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
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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
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
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