Round covered box
2nd-1st century BCE
Description
Cold-painted ceramic funerary ware simulating a painted lacquer box; rounded, bowl-like box with circular footring and domed cover with raised circular ring on top; dark gray earthenware with decoration of geometric cloud-scroll designs painted in unfired polychrome pigments, including white, off-white, ochre, green, blue, orange, and red; interior of container and lid covered with cold-painted red pigment. One of a pair with 2006.170.174.A-B.
Dimensions
H. 20 x Diam. 23.8 cm (7 7/8 x 9 3/8 in.)
Provenance
[Sotheby's, New York, 19 September 2002, lot. 17] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2002-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
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