Jar with brown dots
4th century
Description
Small jar with rounded sides, short neck, rolled mouth rim, four squared lug handles evenly spaced around the shoulder; gray stoneware with olive-green glaze; iron-brown touched on over the glaze in irregularly shaped dots of different sizes around the body, on the lug handles, between the lug handles, and around the rim; glaze stops short of the foot. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area of northeastern Zhejiang province.
Dimensions
H. 8.2 x Diam. 11.9 cm (3 1/4 x 4 11/16 in.)
Provenance
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, June 1997] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (by 2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
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