VesselsChinese3rd millennium BCE

Stem cup

c. 2600-2000 BCE

Description

Small stem cup with flat, everted mouth, cylindrical body, and hollow cylindrical stem perforated with small vertical slits and horizontal quadrilateral openings; thinly potted, lightly burnished blackened earthenware with incised and openwork decoration. Longshan culture; from Shandong province.

Classification

Vessels

Medium

Black earthenware

Culture

Chinese

Period

Neolithic period, Shandong Longshan culture, c. 2600-2000 BCE

Century

3rd millennium BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

H. 12.6 x Diam. 7.3 cm (4 15/16 x 2 7/8 in.)

Provenance

[Nicholas Grindley, London, 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

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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

3rd-2nd millennium BCEChinese