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Gallery Talk: Ceramic Art from Ancient China

Ovoid hu storage jar, Chinese, Majiayao culture, Banshan phase, Neolithic period, 2650–2350 BCE. Buff earthenware with appliqué elements and with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund, 2006.170.29.

Gallery Talk

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Melissa Moy, consultative curator for Chinese ceramics in the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, will give today’s gallery talk.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.

Gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they focus on aspects of the installation process, exploring both intellectual and more practical considerations. Museums staff will, for example, tease out arguments at play in the galleries, discuss conservation treatments, look closely at specific collections, or draw connections between works of art throughout the museums.