2006.170.187: Elliptical cup (erbei)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.187
- Title
- Elliptical cup (erbei)
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 東漢 灰陶耳杯
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- early 1st-early 3rd century CE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/189162
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Earthenware with cold painted pigment
- Dimensions
- H. 3.3 x L. 12.7 x W. 9.8 cm (1 5/16 x 5 x 3 7/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, April 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
- 2006.170.187
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Shallow cup of oblong, elliptical form with crescent-shaped handles positioned bilaterally on the long sides; known as an erbei (“ear cup”), due to the handles’ resemblance to human ears; gray earthenware with remains of cold-painted red pigment o the interior.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
(1) Earthenware erbei cup with cold-painted red pigment on the interior excavated in 1991 from a late Eastern Han brick tomb near Yujia village, Qian’an county, Hebei province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 10 (1996): 34, figs. 15-16.
(2) Gray earthenware erbei cup excavated in 1984 from an Eastern Han tomb in Zibo, Shandong province. Kaogu [Archaeology] 8 (1986): 722, fig. 6.3.
(3) Similar erbei cup with red pigment on the interior in the Harvard Art Museums collection (1943.55.14).
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
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Verification Level
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