2006.170.109: Wide-mouthed jar
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.109
- Title
- Wide-mouthed jar
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 紅山文化 陶罐
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- Hongshan culture, late phase, 3500-3000 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Neolithic period, Hongshan culture, c. 4500-3000 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/178615
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Grayish buff earthenware
- Dimensions
- H. 13 x W. (across handles) 15.5 x Diam. 12.6 cm (5 1/8 x 6 1/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, September 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 Asian Art
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.109
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Jar with wide mouth, lipless rim, and sides tapering inward to a small, flat base; two small lug handles with pierced circular openings at the rim; body with lightly impressed cord markings in a crosshatched pattern grayish buff earthenware with applique handles and impressed decoration. Hongshan culture. From northeastern China; Liaoning province or Inner Mongolia.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Earthenware beaker of similar form excavated in 1977 from a late Hongshan culture site at Da’nangou village, Jiefangyingzi township, Wengniute Banner, Inner Mongolia. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 4 (1997): 26, fig. 15.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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