Cocoon-Shaped Storage Vessel
Artist
Unidentified artist
Chinese
CultureChinese
Date206 BCE-220 CE
Mediumstoneware with painted decoration
Dimensions10 3/8 x 11 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (26.4 x 30.2 x 21 cm)
Classificationsceramics
Credit LineGift of Smith Freeman and Austin Scarlett
Object number2009.26.7
DescriptionThe wide oval jar with rounded ends, raised on a high hollow foot and with a short cylindrical neck in the center rising to a flaring mouth with wedge-shaped rim, the gray pottery decorated in white slip and two tones of red with loosely drawn cloud-scroll motifs, the painting all original and relatively well preserved.On View
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