VesselsChinese3rd-2nd millennium BCE

Jar with cord-marked decor

c. 2300-1500 BCE

Description

Jar with trumpet-shaped, flared mouth, constricted neck, ovoid body, and two loop handles; reddish buff earthenware with applique handles and cord-impressed decoration. Qijia culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.

Classification

Vessels

Medium

EaHarvard 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

Culture

Chinese

Period

Qijia culture, c. 2300-1500 BCE

Century

3rd-2nd millennium BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

H. 24.4 x W. (across handles) 15.7 x Diam. 13.2 cm (9 5/8 x 6 3/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

Provenance

[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, December 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

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