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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.165
Title
Granary jar
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 西漢 灰硬陶倉
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1st century BCE-1st century CE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province
Period
Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/176366

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray stoneware with incised and impressed decoration
Dimensions
H. 34.2 x Diam. 24.6 cm (13 7/16 x 9 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kaikodo, New York, January 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.170.165
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Oblong vessel in the shape of a miniature granary with circular opening at the top, domed shoulders, and sides tapering inward to a flat base elevated on three short cabriole legs; four evenly spaced pairs of notched bands raised in relief encircle the body; a row of small concentric circles impressed between the upper two bands; gray earthenware with incised and impressed decoration, lightly burnished surfaces.
Commentary
Compare to:
(1) Earthenware granaries of virtually identical form excavated in 1987 from late Western Han to early Eastern Han period tombs at Tijiakou village, Anyang, Henan province. See Huaxia kaogu [Huaxia Archaeology] 1 (1993): 16-17, figs. 8.3 and 9.1-3.
(2) Covered granary jar of closely related form with three short legs in the shape of crouching bears excavated in 1992-1993 from a late Western Han dynasty brick tomb in Xigong district, Luoyang, Henan province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 11 (1995): 9, fig. 12.
(3) Covered granary jars of similar form with three short legs in the shape of crouching bears and an opening on the bottom excavated in 1992 from a late Western Han dynasty brick tomb in Luoyang, Henan province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 7 (1994): 26, fig. 8 and 9.

Publication History

  • Kaikodo Journal, Vol.07 (Spring 1998), auct. cat., Kaikodo (New York, 1998), no. 56, pp. 176-177 and 269-270

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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