From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Double-handled jar

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2006.170.70
Title: Double-handled jar
Other Titles: Original Language Title: 寺窪文化陶雙耳罐
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: c. 1300-500 BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Siwa culture, c. 1300-500 BCE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/178614

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Earthenware
Dimensions: H. 24.7 x W. 27.1 x D. 26.5 cm (9 3/4 x 10 11/16 x 10 7/16 in.)

Provenance

[Uragami Sokyu-do Co., Ltd., Tokyo, July 2000] 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: 2006.170.70
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
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Descriptions

Description: Jar with curved, “saddle-shaped” mouth, broad shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small, flat base, and two strap handles attached from rim to top of shoulders; gray earthenware with irregular markings from firing. Siwa culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu of Shaanxi province.
Commentary: Compare to:
Jar of similar form unearthed from a Siwa culture site in Disiping, Lianlu, Kangle county, Gansu province, now in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture Museum, Gansu. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 2: Xia, Shang, Zhou, Chunqiu, Zhanguo [Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 90, pp. 104 and 252.

Exhibition History

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

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