2006.170.219: Jar with brown dots
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.219
- Title
- Jar with brown dots
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 東晉 越窯褐點青瓷罐
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 4th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Zhejiang Province
- Period
- Jin dynasty, Eastern Jin period, 317-420
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/317264
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze and overglaze decoration
- Technique
- Celadon
- Dimensions
- H. 8.2 x Diam. 11.9 cm (3 1/4 x 4 11/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [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.
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
- 2006.170.219
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- 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.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
(1) Celadon covered ovoid jar with handles and decoration of brown dots excavated in 1955 from an Eastern Jin brick tomb near Mount Langshan, Nanjing city, Jiangsu province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 4 (1956): 13, fig. 15.
(2) Celadon covered box with decoration of brown dots on lid excavated in 1984 from an Eastern Jin tomb in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province. See Kaogu [Archaeology] 5 (1986): 421, fig. 17.2.
(3) Celadon covered jar with melon-shaped finial attributed to the Eastern Jin period in Asian Art Museum of San Francisco collection (accession no. B60P145). See He Li, Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), no. 99, pp. 81 and 116.
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
Verification Level
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