Tripod cooking vessel (li)
VesselsChinese2nd millennium BCE

Tripod cooking vessel (li)

c. 2000-1500 BCE

Description

Elongated tripod vessel of cylindrical form raised on three short conical feet and with wide, flared mouth; medium gray earthenware burnished to a smooth black surface. Vessels of this shape are unique to Lower Xiajiadian culture, whose type site of Xiajiadian is in Dadianzi, near Chifeng, eastern Inner Mongolia, northeastern China.

Classification
Vessels
Medium
Gray earthenware
Culture
Chinese
Period
Lower Xiajiadian culture, c. 2000-1500 BCE
Century
2nd millennium BCE
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Department
Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

H. 25.8 x W. 11.5 x Diam. 16.3 cm (10 3/16 x 4 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.)

Provenance

[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, October 1998] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1998-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

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