Water Jar
- Culture
- Chinese
- Date
- c.4000–3000 BCE
- excavated in
- Banpo, Shaanxi province, China, Asia
- Classification
- Ceramics, containers
- Collection
- Asian Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 230
- Dimensions
- 19 1/8 x 6 3/8 in. (48.6 x 16.2 cm)
diameter at lip: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm) - Credit Line
- Funds given by Edith Spink in memory of her husband, C. C. Johnson Spink
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 107:2002
NOTES
This jar’s elegantly curving outline begins at the rim and finishes at the pointed end. Its surface is decorated with a subtle pattern made by pressing twisted cord into the soft
clay body before firing. The fine markings are set at diagonals, imparting an ascendant,
swirling movement to the work. Water jars like this one were bound with cord and dropped into water, where they slowly turned upright as they filled.
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