Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.216: Jar with dished mouth Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Jar with dished mouth , 2006.170.216,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/187802. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
