2006.170.260: Long-necked jar with dished mouth
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.260
- Title
- Long-necked jar with dished mouth
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 北齊至隋 黄釉盤口壺
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 6th – early 7th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Northern Qi (550-577) to Sui (581-618) dynasty
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/174967
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Earthenware with lead fluxed glaze
- Technique
- Lead glaze
- Dimensions
- H. 40.9 x Diam. 23 cm (16 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, October 2000] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2000-2006), 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
- 2006.170.260
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions
- Description
- Tall, long-necked jar with dish-shaped mouth, slender cylindrical neck, ovoid body, and sides tapering inward to a flat circular base; with two raised bands encircling the neck and lightly incised lines encircling the shoulders; pinkish buff earthenware with pale green lead-fluxed glaze over incised and molded decoration; glaze covers entire vessel, including the base. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably northern China. One of a pair with 2006.170.261.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Celadon chicken-headed ewer with similar dish-mouthed jar form excavated from the Sui dynasty (581-618) tomb of Li Jingxun (dated to 608) in Xi’an, Shaanxi province. See Kaogu [Archaeology] 9 (1959): 471-72, pl. 3.5.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
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Verification Level
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