VesselsChinese10th century

Wide-mouthed jar with loop handles

10th century

Description

Ovoid jar with wide mouth, short neck, flattened shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small, circular, flat base, and a pair of leaf-shaped loop handles rising from the shoulders; light gray stoneware with olive-green celadon glaze of even tone covering the interior and exterior, including the base, which has ten marks around its edge from a multi-pronged kiln support that elevated the object during firing; the interior floor with nine raised spurs from a kiln support for another smaller piece that would have been fired inside the jar at the time of firing. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Classification

Vessels

Technique

Celadon

Medium

Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze

Culture

Chinese

Period

Tang dynasty (618-907) to Five Dynasties period (907-960)

Century

10th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

H. 17.5 x Diam. 20.3 cm (6 7/8 x 8 in.)

Provenance

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