Mortuary Urn
| Artist | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Culture | Chinese |
| Title | Mortuary Urn |
| Date | 2nd millennium BCE |
| Medium | Earthenware with colored slip or paint and clay |
| Dimensions | Overall: 9 x 14 1/2 in. (22.9 x 36.8 cm) |
| Credit Line | William Lowe Bryan Memorial, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 62.174 |
| This artwork is currently on view. | |
A round vessel with two small handles. The upper half of the vessel is decorated in black paint with ten lozenge-shaped forms separated by a net-like pattern.
This jar was probably found in the context of a burial and used for grain or other food to sustain the dead in the afterlife. It is made of coiled clay, decorated, and burnished to give it a luminous surface.
Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.
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"Mortuary Urn | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=62.174