dark brown, unglazed ceramic; bulbous body with 3 decorative twisted 'handles'; cover slightly domed with bird-shaped knob; lid decorated with incised radiating zig-zags overall; jar decorated with incised wavelike pattern on shoulder and squares with bars on lower section

Jar and Cover, 6th century BCE

Unknown artist, expand_more
On View in Gallery 204expand_more

This hand-built vessel has been decorated with incised patterns and three nonfunctional handles made of pinched clay. During the period leading up to the Warring States period (475-221 BCE), craftsmen working in the south in Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces used high-fired clay to create utilitarian vessels of basic designs. The hard stoneware was durable, practical, and impervious to water.

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Jar and Cover
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2000.145.2a,b
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dark brown, unglazed ceramic; bulbous body with 3 decorative twisted 'handles'; cover slightly domed with bird-shaped knob; lid decorated with incised radiating zig-zags overall; jar decorated with incised wavelike pattern on shoulder and squares with bars on lower section