Object Title
Neolithic Jar
Measurements
16 1/2" h x 15 1/4" dia
Creation Date
4000 BCE-3000 BCE
Credit Line
Denver Art Museum: Gift of Merrill Shields and Ray Thomasson
Museum Name
Museum Contact
provenance@denverartmuseum.org
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
End of Tang dynasty (907 CE)
Provenance Information
(Arch Angel Antiques), Hong Kong, by 2005; Purchased by Merrill Shields and Ray Thomasson, Denver, CO; Gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 2019.
Exhibition Information
N/A
Publication Information
N/A
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Acquisition of this work is consistent with cumulative facts and circumstances that confirm an association with long term provenance history of many other similar works from the general region of NW China.