Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.219: Jar with brown dots 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"Jar with brown dots , 2006.170.219,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 04, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/317264. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.219 Title Jar with brown dots Other Titles Original Language Title: 東晉 越窯褐點青瓷罐 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date 4th century Places Creation Place: East Asia, China, Zhejiang Province Period Jin dynasty, Eastern Jin period, 317-420 Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/317264 Physical Descriptions Medium Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze and overglaze decoration Technique Celadon Dimensions H. 8.2 x Diam. 11.9 cm (3 1/4 x 4 11/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, June 1997] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (by 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 2006.170.219 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 Small jar with rounded sides, short neck, rolled mouth rim, four squared lug handles evenly spaced around the shoulder; gray stoneware with olive-green glaze; iron-brown touched on over the glaze in irregularly shaped dots of different sizes around the body, on the lug handles, between the lug handles, and around the rim; glaze stops short of the foot. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area of northeastern Zhejiang province. Commentary Compare to: (1) Celadon covered ovoid jar with handles and decoration of brown dots excavated in 1955 from an Eastern Jin brick tomb near Mount Langshan, Nanjing city, Jiangsu province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 4 (1956): 13, fig. 15. (2) Celadon covered box with decoration of brown dots on lid excavated in 1984 from an Eastern Jin tomb in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province. See Kaogu [Archaeology] 5 (1986): 421, fig. 17.2. (3) Celadon covered jar with melon-shaped finial attributed to the Eastern Jin period in Asian Art Museum of San Francisco collection (accession no. B60P145). See He Li, Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), no. 99, pp. 81 and 116. 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
