Double-handled jar
c. 1300-500 BCE
Description
Jar with curved, “saddle-shaped” mouth, broad shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small, flat base, and two strap handles attached from rim to top of shoulders; gray earthenware with irregular markings from firing. Siwa culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu of Shaanxi province.
Dimensions
H. 24.7 x W. 27.1 x D. 26.5 cm (9 3/4 x 10 11/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
Provenance
[Uragami Sokyu-do Co., Ltd., Tokyo, July 2000] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
Related Artworks
View MoreMonochrome biscuit porcelain: porcelain with yellow enamel over molded decoration
18th-19th centuryChineseCast bronze
ChineseGlass
RomanTerracotta
8th century BCEGreekBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
19th centuryChineseTerracotta
EtruscanSilver
19th centuryAmericanSilver
17th centuryBritishSilver, gilt interior; case: leather and velvet
19th centuryBritishCeramic
19th centuryRussianTerracotta
2nd century CERomanBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChinese