A NEOLITHIC RED POTTERY AMPHORA

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A NEOLITHIC RED POTTERY AMPHORA
GANSU/YANGSHAO CULTURE, SOUTHERN SHAANXI PROVINCE, LINTONG COUNTY, BANPO TYPE, CIRCA 5000 B.C.

The elegant water vessel of elongated, ovoid form, tapering to a small, flat base, the sloping shoulders surmounted by a wide, cup-shaped mouth, applied with a pair of rounded loop handles at mid-point, earth encrustation--7 5/8in. (19.2cm.) high

出版

Frances Klapthor, "Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Peter and Irene Scheinman", Orientations, September 1992, pp. 53-60, fig. 1

展覽

Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 1

拍品專文

Compare the amphora of this type with cord-marked surface in the Honolulu Academy of the Arts included in the exhibition, Origins of Chinese Ceramics, China Institute, New York, October 25, 1978-January 28, 1979, illustrated by Shangraw in the Catalogue no. 1 and another in the British Museum illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Kodansha, 1981, vol. 5, pl. 1