Storage jar

Object Details

• Description

  Storage jar: strong, bulging shape on wide flat base, formed by building and paddling; short neck and turned out lip.

  Clay: gray, fine-grained, smooth, medium-fired.

  Glaze: none.

  Decoration: none save as produced by paddling technique creating faceting and occasional striated markings. Fewer paddle marks as shape closes, suggesting that some turning was done at this point and to finish mouth. Small hole in lower side wall, probably from an inclusion scuffed out. A number of random scratches are seen in the clay.

• Provenance

  From 1925 to 1978

  Richard F. Starr, purchased in Lanchow, China, in 1925 [1]

  From 1978

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Starr of Upperville, VA, in 1978

  Notes:

  [1] According to provenance information provided by Richard F. Starr, in two letters held in the object's file (see Curatorial Note 2, T. Lawton, 1979, in the object record).

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Storage Jars of Asia (October 29, 2000 to March 10, 2002)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Starr

• Origin

  Gansu province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Starr in memory of Langdon Warner

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  BCE 0s

• Name

  Starr, Richard F.

• Place

  Gansu province, China

• Topic

  Art, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE), Stoneware, Chinese Art

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)