A Rare Neolithic period, 'Cord-Marked' Red Pottery Amphora

YANGSHAO CULTURE, SOUTHERN SHAANXI PROVINCE, BANPO TYPE, CIRCA 4800-3600 BC

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A Rare Neolithic period, 'Cord-Marked' Red Pottery Amphora
Yangshao culture, Southern Shaanxi province, Banpo type, circa 4800-3600 BC
The ovoid body tapering to a small flat base and decorated around the upper body with a wide band of deeply scored diagonal lines, applied at mid-body with a pair of loop handles, the neck surmounted by a tall, curved mouth
18½in. (47cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the amphorae of this type: one included in the exhibition, Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Neolithic Period to the Western Han, Uragami Sokyu-do, Co. Tokyo, 1991, no. 2; one from the Honolulu Academy of Arts in the exhibition, Origins of Chinese Ceramics, China Institute, New York, 25 October 1978 - 28 January 1979, no. 1; and another in the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 5, pl. 1.
Another similar amphora is illustrated in A Selection of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China, Wen Wu Press, Beijing, 1976, no. 3.
See, also, the example sold in these rooms, 21 March 2000, lot 232.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C101z96 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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