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Small jar with three strap handles
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Small hourglass-shaped jar with flared mouth, constricted waist, and flared lower half; with three strap handles attached from lip to base; thinly potted red earthenware with applique handles and traces of cinnabar. Qijia culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.
Department of Asian Art
[James Freeman Kyoto July 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation Woodside CA (1999-2006) partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums 2006.
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
Title: Small jar with three strap handles
Description:
Small hourglass-shaped jar with flared mouth, constricted waist, and flared lower half; with three strap handles attached from lip to base; thinly potted red earthenware with applique handles and traces of cinnabar.
Qijia culture.
From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.
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