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Tripod cauldron (ding)

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Small cauldron with flared mouth, crimped waist, and three flat legs; red earthenware. Dawenkou culture. From the middle and lower Yellow River valley regions; Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and eastern Henan provinces.
Department of Asian Art [Uragami Sokyu-do Co. Ltd. Tokyo February 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: Tripod cauldron (ding)
Description:
Small cauldron with flared mouth, crimped waist, and three flat legs; red earthenware.
Dawenkou culture.
From the middle and lower Yellow River valley regions; Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and eastern Henan provinces.

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