2006.170.129: Jar
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.129
- Title
- Jar
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 西周 原始青瓷罐
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 9th-8th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Western Zhou period, c. 1050-771 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/54471
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Proto-porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
- Dimensions
- H. 22.2 x Diam. 19.2 cm (8 3/4 x 7 9/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Uragami Sokyu-do Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 2004] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2004-2006), 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 Louise Haskell Daly Fund
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.129
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Jar with articulated lip, straight sides, and flat base; light gray stoneware with thin olive-green ash glaze over incised and applique decoration. From Jiangsu or Zhejiang province.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
Jar of different form but with similar decoration and glaze excavated from a Western Zhou site in Longyou county, Quzhou, Zhejiang province, now in the Quzhou 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. 100, pp. 112 and 256.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
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