Wide-mouthed jar, Siba culture (c. 2000-1600 BCE), China, Gansu province. Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration. H. 20.3 x W. (across handles) 22 x Diam. 22.5 cm. 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, 2006.170.45. Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Globular jar with indented neck, broad body, lower portion tapering inward to a small, flat base, and with two strap handles attached from rim to shoulders; buff earthenware with crosshatched decoration painted in black slip on neck and body. Siba culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region, probably Gansu province.

Provenance: Recorded Ownership History

[Kaikodo, New York, 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.