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Small jar with three strap handles

Small jar with three strap handles

VesselsChinese3rd-2nd millennium BCE

Small jar with three strap handles

c. 2300-1500 BCE

Description

Small hourglass-shaped jar with flared mouth, constricted waist, and flared lower half; with three strap handles attached from lip to base; thinly potted red earthenware with applique handles and traces of cinnabar. Qijia culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.

Classification

Vessels

Medium

Earthenware with traces of cinnabar

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. 9.4 x W. (across handles) 11 x Diam. 9 cm (3 11/16 x 4 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.)

Provenance

[James Freeman, Kyoto, July 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

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