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Jar with dished mouth
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Large ovoid jar with dish-shaped mouth, short neck, broad shoulders, lower body tapering inward to a circular, flat base, six squared lug handles encircling the top of the shoulders, and two loops descending from the dished mouth; light gray stoneware with light green celadon glaze. Place of manufacture uncertain.
Department of Asian Art
[Kaikodo New York January 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: Jar with dished mouth
Description:
Large ovoid jar with dish-shaped mouth, short neck, broad shoulders, lower body tapering inward to a circular, flat base, six squared lug handles encircling the top of the shoulders, and two loops descending from the dished mouth; light gray stoneware with light green celadon glaze.
Place of manufacture uncertain.
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