Wide-mouthed jar
5th-4th century BCE
Description
Large ovoid jar with wide mouth, broad shoulders, sides tapering in toward a small flat base, and with two small movable ring handles on the shoulders; the upper body carved with a wide band of vertical ribs, the shoulders decorated with a thin band of ribs, interrupted on either side by a small panel of spiral designs enclosing a ring handle; light gray stoneware with thin natural ash glaze on the upper portion.
Dimensions
H. 21.3 x Diam. 28.9 cm (8 3/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
Provenance
[The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, March 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
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