Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.9: Gourd-shaped bottle Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Gourd-shaped bottle , 2006.170.9,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 30, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/99543. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.170.9 Title Gourd-shaped bottle Other Titles Original Language Title: 仰韶文化史家類型 彩陶葫蘆形瓶 Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date Shijia phase, c. 4000 BCE Places Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shaanxi province Period Neolithic period, Yangshao culture, c. 5000-3000 BCE Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/99543 Physical Descriptions Medium Earthenware with slip-painted decoration Dimensions H. 30.5 x Diam. 15.8 cm (12 x 6 1/4 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2002] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2002-2006), 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 2006.170.9 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Elongated ovoid bottle with mouth and body suggesting the form of a double gourd, the rounded lower portion of the body tapering inward to a flat base; buff earthenware lightly burnished and decorated on the exterior with abstract zoomorphic designs painted in black slip before firing; encrustations from burial. Early middle Yangshao culture, Shijia type. Commentary Compare to: Vessels of similar shape with painted designs excavated in 1975 from a Shijia site in Jiangzhai, Lintong county, Shaanxi province, now in the Shaanxi History Museum. See Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 1: Xinshiqi shidai [Neolithic period] (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2000), nos. 22-24, pp. 71-73 and 254. Publication History Bao pu yi tao: Zhongguo xinshiqi shidai de taoqi yu yuqi [Pottery and Jades of China's Neolithic Age], auct. cat., Yunzhongju guwan youxian gongsi (Taibei Shi, 2001), no. 2 Subjects and Contexts Sedgwick Collection Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
