Lid of a Jar in the shape of a Granary Storage Container

Unidentified Han Dynasty maker, Chinese, 206 BCE - 220 CE

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Han Dynasty, 202 BCE-220 CE

Terracotta

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind and D. Herbert Beskind, Class of 1936

C.957.150B

Geography

Place Made: Sichuan Province, China, East Asia, Asia

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Asia

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed. No marks.

Provenance

Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind (1917-2014) and David Herbert Beskind (1915-2015), Class of 1936, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1957.

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