Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.237: Wide-mouthed jar with loop handles 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"Wide-mouthed jar with loop handles , 2006.170.237,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/191004. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.237 Title Wide-mouthed jar with loop handles Other Titles Original Language Title: 唐至五代 青瓷罐 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 10th century Places Creation Place: East Asia, China, Zhejiang Province, Shanglinhu Period Tang dynasty (618-907) to Five Dynasties period (907-960) Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/191004 Physical Descriptions Medium Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze Technique Celadon Dimensions H. 17.5 x Diam. 20.3 cm (6 7/8 x 8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, August 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 2006.170.237 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 Ovoid jar with wide mouth, short neck, flattened shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small, circular, flat base, and a pair of leaf-shaped loop handles rising from the shoulders; light gray stoneware with olive-green celadon glaze of even tone covering the interior and exterior, including the base, which has ten marks around its edge from a multi-pronged kiln support that elevated the object during firing; the interior floor with nine raised spurs from a kiln support for another smaller piece that would have been fired inside the jar at the time of firing. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province. Commentary Compare to: (1) Celadon jar of virtually identical form and similar size excavated in 1990 from a Five Dynasties (907-960) site in Fengshan district, Ningbo, Zhejiang province, now in the Ningbo Municipal Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 6: Tang, Wudai [Tang and Five Dynasties period] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 202, pp. 183 and 270. (2) Celadon jar of virtually identical form in the East Zhejiang Museum of Yue Celadon Ware collection. See Beijing daxue Zhongguo kaogu yanjiu zhongxin [Chinese Archaeology Research Center, Peking University], Die cui : Zhedong yueyao qingci bowuguan zang qingci jingpin [Vibrant Greens: Celadon Glazes over Two Millennia: Masterpieces from the East Zhejiang Museum of Yue Celadon ware] (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 2013), no. 101, pp. 450-453. Subjects and Contexts Sedgwick Collection Related Works 2006.170.238 Wide-mouthed jar with bail handle Vessels 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
