1937.189: Small Jar with Abstract Decor and Styled Ring-Mask Handle Decor
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1937.189
- Title
- Small Jar with Abstract Decor and Styled Ring-Mask Handle Decor
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 5th-3rd century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205793
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Off-white stoneware with combed and applique decoration and with traces of ash glaze
- Dimensions
- H. 12.7 x Diam. 19.3 cm (5 x 7 5/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Laurence Sickman, Kansas, MO (by 1934 - 1937), sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1937
Note:
Laurence Sickman (1906-1988)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, William M. Prichard Fund
- Accession Year
- 1937
- Object Number
- 1937.189
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Walter Hochstadter, "Pottery and Stonewares of Shang, Chou, and Han", Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Ostasiatiska museet (Stockholm, Sweden, 1952), no. 24, p. 81ff, pl. 25, no.97
- Seiichi Mizuno, "Sekai toji zenshu (Catalogue of World's Ceramics)", Kawade Shobo (Tokyo, Japan, 1955), pl. 65
Verification Level
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