Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.134: Tall, wide-mouthed jar 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"Tall, wide-mouthed jar , 2006.170.134,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/317258. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.134 Title Tall, wide-mouthed jar Other Titles Original Language Title: 春秋至戰國 印紋硬陶罐 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 5th century BCE Places Creation Place: East Asia, China Period Zhou dynasty, Eastern Zhou period, 770-256 BCE Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/317258 Physical Descriptions Medium Gray stoneware with impressed decoration Dimensions H. 35.7 x Diam. 26.8 cm (14 1/16 x 10 9/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Zentner Collection, San Francisco, 1997] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1997-2006), 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 2006.170.134 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 Tall, wide-mouthed jar with short neck and broad shoulders; body tapers inward to a flat base; light gray stoneware with basket-weave decoration impressed over the entire body. Commentary Compare to: (1) Tall jar of similar form and basket-weave decor but with reddish body excavated in 1985 from a late Spring and Autumn or early Warring States period (5th century) earth-mound tomb in Yunchaolongwan, Huzhou, Zhejiang province, now in Huzhou City Museum. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 12 (2003): 79, fig. 9-10. (2) Jar of a different form but with similar impressed decor excavated from a Warring States (475-221 BCE) site in Zengcheng district, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, now in the Guangdong 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. 242, pp. 218 and 303. 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
