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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.216
Title
Jar with dished mouth
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 西晋 越窯青瓷盤口壺
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
3rd-early 4th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Zhejiang Province, Shaoxing
Period
Jin dynasty, Western Jin period, 266-317
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/187802

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze
Technique
Celadon
Dimensions
H. 22.4 x Diam. 22.4 cm (8 13/16 x 8 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Christian Boehm, London, November 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), 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
2006.170.216
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Jar with broad, rounded shoulders and sides tapering inward dramatically to a proportionally small, flat base; waisted cylindrical neck crowned with a circular, dish-shaped mouth; a decorative band of impressed, crosshatched decor encircles the vessel between shoulders and neck; two small, molded simulated animal-mask ring-handles appear on top of the decorative band; two flat lug handles with rope-like striations straddle the decorative band. Light gray stoneware with olive-green glaze over stamped and molded applique decoration; glaze stops well above foot; base unglazed; spur marks indicate vessel was elevated in kiln when fired. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area, northeastern Zhejiang province.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Celadon jar of the same form and very similar pushou mask decoration excavated from a Western Jin tomb dated to 280 in Cixi, Zhejiang province, now in the Cixi Municipal Office for the Management of Cultural Property. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 4: Sanguo, liang Jin, nanbei chao [Three-Kingdoms, Western and Eastern Jin, Northern and Southern dynasties] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 53, pp. 79 and 248.
(2) Remnants of a celadon basin with very similar pushou mask and impressed crosshatch decoration dated to the third or early fourth centuries excavated in 2003 from the Nigupo kiln site in Shangyu, Zhejiang province, now in the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 9: Zhejiang (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 46.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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