2006.170.22: Footed bowl
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.22
- Title
- Footed bowl
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 馬家窯文化馬家窯類型 彩陶高足碗
- 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/182488
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Earthenware with slip-painted decoration
- Dimensions
- H. 9.2 x Diam. 15.3 cm (3 5/8 x 6 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 Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.22
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Bowl with vertical side walls rising to a rimless mouth and lower portion angled sharply inward toward a circular pedestal foot with upturned edges; buff earthenware with geometric decoration in black slip, embellished with white dots and accent lines; decoration includes dotted roundels and crescent shapes on the interior, and fishnet patterns on the exterior. Majiayao culture, Majiayao type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Vessel of different shape but with similar white dotted roundels and fishnet pattern excavated in 1958 from a Majiayao site in Dunjiaping, 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. 62, pp. 105 and 267; and Dai Kōga bunmei no nagare [History of the Great Yellow River Civilization] (Tokyo: Seibu Bijutsukan; Asahi Shinbunsha, 1986), cat. 11, p. 46.
Footed bowl (dou) of closely related shape excavated in 1975 from a Majiayao site in Shizhaocun, Tianshui, Gansu province, now in the Tianshui Museum. See Zhang Pengchuan, Zhongguo caitao tu pu [Handbook of Chinese Painted Pottery Illustrations] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1990), no. 273.
Publication History
- Ancient Chinese Ceramics & Tomb Sculpture, March 20 to April 8, 2000, auct. cat., J.J. Lally & Co. (New York, NY, 2000), no. 6
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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