A Massive Textured Pottery Tripod Jar

NEOLITHIC, CIRCA 2000 B.C.

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A Massive Textured Pottery Tripod Jar
Neolithic, Circa 2000 B.C.
The thickly potted ovoid body with a wide band of gouged markings around the sides, raised on three mammi-form supports
18in. (47.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

A similar jar of this size with small tab handles projecting from the upper body was included in the exhibition, Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Neolithic Period to the Western Han, Uragami Sokyu-do Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 1991, p. 19.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C199w64 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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