Lot 12
12
A NEOLITHIC GRAY POTTERY TWO-HANDLED JAR

Details
A NEOLITHIC GRAY POTTERY TWO-HANDLED JAR
SIWA CULTURE, GANSU PROVINCE, CIRCA 1000 B.C.

The swelling upper body joined by a pair of strap handles to the flared rim of broad, scooped outline, the top of each handle forming a curved 'Y', the polished body showing knife-pared marks allover--5½in. (14cm.) 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. 13

Lot Essay

Jars of this type are illustrated by J.G. Andersson, "Researches into the Prehistory of the Chinese," B.M.F.E.A., No. 15, 1943, pls. 142 and 143; another was included in the exhibition, Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Neolithic period to the Western Han, Uragami Sokyu-Do Co., Tokyo, 1991, Catalogue, p. 28 (top); and one excavated in Pingliang county, Gansu province, now in the Gansu Provincial Museum, illustrated in Zhonguo Meishu Quanji, Gongyi Meishu, Taoci, vol. 1, Shanghai, 1991, no. 92, p. 71