Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.1: Amphora with pointed base 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"Amphora with pointed base , 2006.170.1,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 16, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/196417. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.1 Title Amphora with pointed base Other Titles Original Language Title: 仰韶文化 半坡類型 陶 尖底雙耳瓶 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date Banpo phase, c. 5000-4000 BCE Places Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shaanxi province Period Neolithic period, Yangshao culture, c. 5000-3000 BCE Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/196417 Physical Descriptions Medium Earthenware with impressed decoration Dimensions H. 37 x W. (across handles) 24 cm (14 9/16 x 9 7/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, September 1998] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1998-2006), 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 2006.170.1 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 Inverted tear-drop-shaped vessel with cupped mouth, short neck, broad, rounded shoulders, sides tapering inward to a pointed base, and two loop handles just below shoulders; red earthenware, the upper half cord-marked (i.e., textured with impressions created by a cord-wrapped implement tapped against the moist clay before firing. Early Yangshao culture, Banpo type. Vessels of this form—with small mouths, pointed bases, and bilateral loop handles—were used to collect and carry water and were produced in abundance during the middle and late Neolithic period in the middle Yellow River valley region. Note: A sample taken from the base of this vessel was thermoluminescence (TL) tested at Oxford Authentication Ltd. in September 1998 and determined to be consistent with the suggested period of manufacture. Commentary Compare to: (1) Small amphora with similar rounded shoulders excavated in 1975 from a Banpo site in Jiangzhai, Lintong county, Shaanxi province, now in the Shaanxi History Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 1: Xinshiqi shidai [Neolithic period] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), no. 17, pp. 66 and 252. (2) Amphora with similar cupped mouth and textured surface excavated in 1972 from a Banpo site in Jiangzhai, Lintong county, Shaanxi province, now in the National History Museum, Beijing. See ibid., no. 16, p. 65 and p. 252; and Kaogu 3 (1973): 144, fig. 17.2, and pl. 2. (3) Small amphora excavated from Banpo village, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, now in the British Museum. See Sheila Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain (London: British Museum, 1991), 13, fig. 1 (left). Publication History Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg, Amphore Métaphore, exh. cat., Musée du Verre (Conches-en-Ouche, 2022), pp. 98-99, ill.; pp. 109, 120 Exhibition History Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016 Subjects and Contexts Google Art Project 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
