A RARE NEOLITHIC WHITE POTTERY STEM DISH, DOU

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A RARE NEOLITHIC WHITE POTTERY STEM DISH, DOU
DAWENKOU CULTURE, CIRCA 2500 B.C.

The shallow, rounded dish raised on a pedestal base pierced with two circular apertures above the spreading foot ending in a raised rim with sharply cut inner edge, the polished surface of buff color, traces of earth encrustation, restored--7 7/8in. (20.cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare two similar dou excavated from the Dawenkou site, Shandong province, illustrated in Dawenkou, Wenwu Press, 1974, pl. 55, figs. 3 and 4

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 666e98 is consistent with the dating of this lot