Jar (hu) | Yale University Art Gallery

5th–3rd century B.C.E.

Medium: Stoneware with slip and traces of tin foil
Dimensions: 11 × 7 1/2 in. (27.9 × 19 cm)
Credit Line: University Purchase Fund
Accession Number: 1940.833
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warrring States period (475 - 221 B.C.E.)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Purchased by the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1940

Bibliography

George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 58–59, no. 87, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

stoneware

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