Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.12: Long-necked 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"Long-necked jar , 2006.170.12,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 26, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/176895. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.12 Title Long-necked jar Other Titles Original Language Title: 馬家窯文化馬家窯類型 彩陶壺 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date Majiayao phase, c. 3300-2650 BCE Places Creation Place: East Asia, China Period Neolithic period, Majiayao culture, c. 3300-2000 BCE Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/176895 Physical Descriptions Medium Earthenware with slip-painted decoration Dimensions H. 35.5 x W. 34.5 (across handles) x Diam. 31 cm (14 x 13 9/16 x 12 3/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, December 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 2006.170.12 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 Ovoid vessel with everted lip, cylindrical neck, angled shoulders, lower body tapering inward to a flat base, and two loop handles just below shoulders; buff earthenware lightly burnished and decorated with abstract designs painted in black slip before firing; painted designs on body neck and rim include four medallions of dots and crossed lines evenly spaced around the vessel, each surrounded by curvilinear triangles, arcs, and wavy or parallel lines. Majiayao culture, Majiayao type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province. Commentary Compare to: (1) Jar of similar form and decoration, but with bichrome painted decor, excavated in 1975 from a Majiayao site in Dujiatai, Yongdeng county, Gansu province, now in the Gansu Provincial Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 1: Xinshiqi shidai [Neolithic period] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 55, pp. 99 and 265. (2) Smaller jar with similar decoration, but without lug handles excavated in 1978 from a Majiayao site in Hetaozhuang, Minhe county, Qinghai province, now in the Qinghai Provincial Research Institute for Cultural Relics and Archaeology. See ibid., no. 61, pp. 104 and 267. Subjects and Contexts Sedgwick Collection Related Works Straus.8968 X-radiograph(s) of "Long-Necked Jar with Angled Shoulder and Geometric Decor" Photographs 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
