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Jar with anthropomorphic feet
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Small jar with short, constricted neck, globular body, two booted human feet, and two strap handles; gray earthenware with applique handles and feet and cord-impressed decoration. Qijia culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.
Note:
A sample taken from the handle of this vessel was thermoluminescence (TL) tested at Oxford Authentication Ltd. in November 1999 and determined to be consistent with the suggested period of manufacture.
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: Jar with anthropomorphic feet
Description:
Small jar with short, constricted neck, globular body, two booted human feet, and two strap handles; gray earthenware with applique handles and feet and cord-impressed decoration.
Qijia culture.
From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.
Note:
A sample taken from the handle of this vessel was thermoluminescence (TL) tested at Oxford Authentication Ltd.
in November 1999 and determined to be consistent with the suggested period of manufacture.
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