VesselsChinese3rd millennium BCE

Stem cup

c. 2600-2000 BCE

Description

Stem cup with wide, everted, dish-form mouth, cylindrical body, and hollow cylindrical stem perforated with small 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. 17.2 x Diam. 11.9 cm (6 3/4 x 4 11/16 in.)

Provenance

[Kaikodo, New York, October 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

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