Tripod cooking vessel (li)
c. 2000-1500 BCE
Description
Elongated tripod vessel of cylindrical form raised on three short conical feet and with wide, flared mouth; medium gray earthenware burnished to a smooth black surface. Vessels of this shape are unique to Lower Xiajiadian culture, whose type site of Xiajiadian is in Dadianzi, near Chifeng, eastern Inner Mongolia, northeastern China.
Dimensions
H. 25.8 x W. 11.5 x Diam. 16.3 cm (10 3/16 x 4 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.)
Provenance
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, October 1998] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1998-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
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