The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Jar with Spiral Decoration

Art Object

Ink Painting and the Rinpa Tradition

Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Jar with Spiral Decoration

Period:: Neolithic (ca. 3300–2500 B.C.) Majiaoyao phase (3200–2650 B.C.)
Date:: Machang type (ca. 2350–2050 B.C.)
Culture:: China
Medium:: Earthenware with pigment
Dimensions:: H. 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm)
Classification:: Ceramics
Credit Line:: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1994
Accession Number:: 1994.605.126

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 202

Description

Based in the northwest, the Majiaoyao represents one phase of the extensive Yangshao culture of north China during the Neolithic period.
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What
Ceramics (29,320)

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Pottery (12,856)

Earthenware (6,696)

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Where
Asia (68,071)

China (17,417)
In the Museum
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China, 8000–2000 B.C.

Central and North Asia, 8000–2000 B.C.