Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.128: Small bowl with angled shoulders 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"Small bowl with angled shoulders , 2006.170.128,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/190472. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.128 Title Small bowl with angled shoulders Other Titles Original Language Title: 西周 原始青瓷盂 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 11th-9th century BCE Places Creation Place: East Asia, China Period Zhou dynasty, Western Zhou period, c. 1050-771 BCE Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/190472 Physical Descriptions Medium Proto-porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze Dimensions H. 9.3 x Diam. 15 cm (3 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 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 2006.170.128 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 Compressed-form wide-mouthed bowl with flared rim, short neck angled shoulders, lower portion tapering inward to a short circular pedestal foot, and three small lug handles around the shoulder; decorated with four bands of incised slants between horizontal borders around the shoulders, the strap-form lug handles with four small circular appliques; raised horizontal lines above the splayed foot; gray stoneware with thin olive-green ash glaze over on the interior and exterior, the glaze stopping just short of the foot; base unglazed. From Jiangsu or Zhejiang province. Commentary Compare to: (1) Proto-porcelain vessel of very similar form and decoration excavated near the Tunxi airport, Huangshan, Anhui province, now in the Anhui Provincial Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 2: Xia, Shang, Zhou, Chunqiu, Zhanguo [Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 129, pp. 131 and 265. (2) Proto-porcelain vessel of similar form excavated in 1981 from a Western Zhou burial mound at Mujianshan, Yiwu, Zhejiang province, now in the Yiwu Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 9: Zhejiang (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 2. 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
