A NEOLITHIC PAINTED POTTERY JAR

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A NEOLITHIC PAINTED POTTERY JAR
GANSU/YANGSHAO CULTURE, MACHANG PHASE, CIRCA 2000 B.C.

The sharply tapering, ovoid body painted in dark red and black on the rounded shoulder with a bold design of concentric circles separated by straight lines above a scalloped border, with a pair of lug handles at mid-body, the flared neck painted on the exterior with a band of barbed diagonal lines--15in. (38.1cm.) high

Exhibited

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

Lot Essay

Compare the similar jar from the Wannieck Collection illustrated by Sirén, Kinas Konst Under Tre Artusenden, vol. I, fig. 4; one in the Musée Guimet illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Kodansha, 1981, vol. 7,no. 1; and another excavated from Liuwan, Ledu county, Qinghai province, illustrated in Neolithic Painted Pottery, Yang-shao Pottery from Kansu Province, Taipei, p. 222, pl. 176