Large ovoid jar with ideographs
5th-3rd century BCE
Description
Large ovoid jar with short neck, broad shoulders, and sides tapering inward to a small flat circular base; red earthenware with fabric-impressed decoration and incised ideographs on the shoulder reading “duo huang”.
Dimensions
H. 55.3 x Diam. 51.5 cm (21 3/4 x 20 1/4 in.)
Provenance
[Galerie Gisèle Croës - Arts d'Extreme-Orient, Brussels, Belgium, June 1998] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1998-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
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