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San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Lenora and Walter F. Brown Asia…
Jar
San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Lenora and Walter F. Brown Asian Art Challenge Fund.
Contact San Antonio Museum of Art, Registrar Department for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Peggy Tenison.

Jar

DepartmentAsian Art
CultureJapanese
Dateca. 3000-2000 B.C.
MediumEarthenware
Dimensionsh. 24 in. (61 cm)
diam. 18 in. (45.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchased with funds provided by the Lenora and Walter F. Brown Asian Art Challenge Fund
Object number88.3
Geography
Place madeJapan
General regionAsia
DescriptionA rare Jomon water jar; the ovoid body and flaring rim decorated with vertical straight and wavy lines and impressed pattern, the rim with raised lines and similar impressed panels surmounted by an elaborated pierced and spiralling tripartite handle design, of Kasori E-2 (Ubayama) type.Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles County Museum, September 1983-September 1984 (TR 6938).
On view
Collections
San Antonio Museum of Art, The D. Joseph Judge, M.D. Collection donated by the Judge Family.
Funerary Urn with Lid
Unknown
Culture: Maya
ca. A.D. 500-950
Gift of Lenora and Walter F. Brown.
Inkstone
Culture: Chinese
907-1125
Baluster Jar
Baluster Jar
Culture: Chinese
15th century
Image Not Available for Female "phi" figure
Female "phi" figure
Culture: Mycenaean
1400-1300 B.C.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Jar with spiral pattern
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 3500-3300 B.C.
Tomb Guardian
Tomb Guardian
Culture: Chinese
618-907
San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Bessie Timon Endowment Fund.
Storage Jar
Culture: Chinese
ca. 1300
Image Not Available for Cup
Cup
Culture: Cypro-Mycenaean
ca. 1350-1200 BC
Image Not Available for Seated Female Figure
Seated Female Figure
Unknown
Culture: Jalisco
ca. 250-500
San Antonio Museum of Art, bequest of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Jar
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 3500-3300 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins.
Jar
7th-8th century A.D.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Miniature Flask
Culture: Islamic
9th-10th century A.D.

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