Jar with brown dots
VesselsChinese4th century CE

Jar with brown dots

4th century

Description

Small jar with rounded sides, short neck, rolled mouth rim, four squared lug handles evenly spaced around the shoulder; gray stoneware with olive-green glaze; iron-brown touched on over the glaze in irregularly shaped dots of different sizes around the body, on the lug handles, between the lug handles, and around the rim; glaze stops short of the foot. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area of northeastern Zhejiang province.

Classification
Vessels
Technique
Celadon
Medium
Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze and overglaze decoration
Culture
Chinese
Period
Jin dynasty, Eastern Jin period, 317-420
Century
4th century CE
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Department
Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

H. 8.2 x Diam. 11.9 cm (3 1/4 x 4 11/16 in.)

Provenance

[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, June 1997] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (by 2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

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