Lot 274
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EARLY POTTERY WARES OTHER PROPERTIES
A BLACK POTTERY STEM CUP

Details
A BLACK POTTERY STEM CUP
LONGSHAN CULTURE, 2500-2000 B.C.

Thinly potted, the bell-shaped cup with flared rim, supported on a tall, ovoid stem potted with horizontal ribs and pierced with a series of short slits above the pedestal foot, burial earth adhering allover, the interior of the stem with encrustation projecting from the slits, chips to footrim
9½in. (24.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare with a very similar stem cup unearthed at Sanlihe, Jiao County, Shandong in 1975, illustrated in the Museum of Chinese History Catalogue, 1980, p. 6. Compare, also, a lidded stem cup in the Linyi City Museum, illustrated by Liu Liangyu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, Early Ware: Prehistoric to Tenth Century, Taipei, 1991, p. 52 (top)