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Small covered jar
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Covered cylindrical jar with three small triangular tabs descending from a flat rim, the conical cover with conical-dish shaped knob; thinly potted gray earthenware with abstract decoration cold-painted in red pigment. Dawenkou culture. From the middle and lower Yellow River valley regions; Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and eastern Henan provinces.
Department of Asian Art
[Nicholas Grindley London 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation Woodside CA (2001-2006) 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 covered jar
Description:
Covered cylindrical jar with three small triangular tabs descending from a flat rim, the conical cover with conical-dish shaped knob; thinly potted gray earthenware with abstract decoration cold-painted in red pigment.
Dawenkou culture.
From the middle and lower Yellow River valley regions; Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and eastern Henan provinces.
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