Large ovoid jar with ideographs

-500–-200

Medium: Red earthenware
Dimensions: H. 55.3 x Diam. 51.5 cm (21 3/4 x 20 1/4 in.)
Genre: Vessel
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Chinese

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Large ovoid jar with short neck, broad shoulders, and sides tapering inward to a small flat circular base; red earthenware with fabric-impressed decoration and incised ideographs on the shoulder reading “duo huang”.