Cocoon-shaped black pottery jar, Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.- 8 C.E.)

Cocoon-shaped black pottery jar, Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.- 8 C.E.)

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• Image Number: K1D001175N000000000PAC
• Dynasty: Western Han dynasty
• Category: Miscellaneous objects
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Small mouth, broad lips along the side, short straight neck, oval flat abdomen, and round feet outward. It is shaped like a cocoon, so it is called a cocoon shaped pot. The neck and foot wall are decorated with convex string patterns. The oval abdomen is divided into 12 groups of string patterns. Each group of string patterns can be disassembled into three concave string patterns. Because the mouth is connected with the foot system after forming, there are chord lines that continue from the body in the circle foot. Most of the cocoon shaped pots were unearthed from tombs and distributed in Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Jiangsu and Gansu provinces. It is an old collection in the Qing Palace. Although it can not be traced back to the site of the excavation, the shape of the object is similar to that of the objects unearthed from Yangling Tomb of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and the relative firing time can be compared. It is regarded as the object of the Western Han Dynasty (about the second century BC). In addition, if we refer to the bronze cocoon shaped pot with the inscription of “Yang” in the late Warring States Period unearthed from No. 3 Tomb in Majiayuan, Gansu, we can also understand the existence of bronze material cocoon shaped pot, and

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