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Wide-mouthed jar with loop handles
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Ovoid jar with wide mouth, short neck, flattened shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small, circular, flat base, and a pair of leaf-shaped loop handles rising from the shoulders; light gray stoneware with olive-green celadon glaze of even tone covering the interior and exterior, including the base, which has ten marks around its edge from a multi-pronged kiln support that elevated the object during firing; the interior floor with nine raised spurs from a kiln support for another smaller piece that would have been fired inside the jar at the time of firing. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.
Department of Asian Art
[J.J. Lally & Co. New York August 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: Wide-mouthed jar with loop handles
Description:
Ovoid jar with wide mouth, short neck, flattened shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small, circular, flat base, and a pair of leaf-shaped loop handles rising from the shoulders; light gray stoneware with olive-green celadon glaze of even tone covering the interior and exterior, including the base, which has ten marks around its edge from a multi-pronged kiln support that elevated the object during firing; the interior floor with nine raised spurs from a kiln support for another smaller piece that would have been fired inside the jar at the time of firing.
From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.
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