Wide-mouthed jar with loop handles
10th century
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.
Dimensions
H. 17.5 x Diam. 20.3 cm (6 7/8 x 8 in.)
Provenance
[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.
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