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Jar (Hu)

202 BCE–9 CE
(206 BCE–8 CE)
earthenware with slip and painted decoration
Overall: 48.2 cm (19 in.)
The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1989.15
Location: 241B Arts of Ancient China
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This earthenware wine jar's shape mimics costly bronzes, but the handles have rings that are fixed to the surface of the pot, rendering them useless.

Description

Instead of depicting a real landscape, the artist focused on the rhythmic forces of nature and the movement of energy, using the scrolling form as a symbol common to all changes in nature: cloud vapors, waves, and mountains alike. Here a dragon hovers among sweeping scrolls.
Jar (Hu)

Jar (Hu)

202 BCE–9 CE

China, probably Henan province, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE)

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