Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup
Two-handled cup

On view

Asian Art
Huo Pavilion

Two-handled cup,

ca. 2000 BCE

Chinese
Qijia culture, Neolithic period, ca. 8000–2000 BCE
2000-345

Information

Title
Two-handled cup
Dates

ca. 2000 BCE

Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
h. 20.5 cm., w. 17.0 cm., d. 12.7 cm. (8 1/16 x 6 11/16 x 5 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2000-345
Place Made

Asia, China

Description
A hollow trumpet-shaped foot with everted rim supports a cup with sides flaring up to a wide mount. Two strap-like handles run the full height of the cup, linked to it at the bottom, middle and top. Projections flare out at the top of each handle and are decorated with small round impressions, resembling metal studs, stamped on the top and side surfaces. One strap handle is decorated on the outer surface with a crosshatch design inside a rectangular field and the other with stamped circles and grooves. Three grooves ring the foot and four encircle the body of the cup. This earthenware vessel is modeled, and the gray clay when fired under oxidation has turned a warm reddish-brown with black specks. The surface appears to have been burnished before firing. Thermo luminescence analysis of samples taken from the upper and lower sections of the cup are consistent with the dating of this vessel.
Culture
Chinese, Chinese Neolithic periods
Type
earthenware, ceramics, cups
Materials
earthenware
Techniques
burnishing (polishing), cross-hatching
Subject
burnishing (polishing), cross-hatching

–2000 Kaikodo Gallery (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2000.

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