Painted Jar (buff with brown brushwork)

Unidentified Yangshao culture maker

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Machang phase, Yangshao culture (2500-1750 BCE)

Earthenware

Overall: 6 9/16 × 5 13/16 in. (16.6 × 14.7 cm)

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

C.957.152

Geography

Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Asia

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed. No marks.

Course History

AMES 11, HIST 9, Introduction to Korean Culture, Sunglim Kim, Fall 2013

ARTH 68, AMES 21.7, Modern and Contemporary Korean Art, Sunglim Kim, Fall 2013

Exhibition History

Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-July 10, 1966.

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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