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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.86
Title
Pouring Vessel
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 大汶口文化 黑陶壺
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 4300-2600 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Neolithic period, Dawenkou culture, c. 4300-2600 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/182454

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black earthenware
Dimensions
H. 21.5 x Diam. 17.2 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, March 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 Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.170.86
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Compressed ovoid vessel with long neck, flared mouth, and foliated spout; lightly burnished blackened earthenware. Dawenkou culture. From the middle and lower Yellow River valley regions; Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and eastern Henan provinces.
Commentary
Compare to:
Similar thinly potted black pottery vessels compressed ovoid bodies and flared necks, but without foliated spouts, excavated in 1957 from a Dawenkou site at Laodongyu, Anqiu county, Shandong province. See Kaogu [Archaeology] 9 (1992): 783, fig. 5.3 and pl. 3:2-3.

Publication History

  • Ancient Chinese Ceramics & Tomb Sculpture, March 20 to April 8, 2000, auct. cat., J.J. Lally & Co. (New York, NY, 2000), no. 4

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

Verification Level

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