A Rare Neolithic Painted Red Pottery Vessel

YANGSHAO CULTURE, MACHANG PHASE, CIRCA 2300-2000 B.C.

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A Rare Neolithic Painted Red Pottery Vessel
Yangshao Culture, Machang Phase, circa 2300-2000 B.C.
The deep, somewhat bulbous body painted in black with geometric panels filled with net pattern on two sides, a panel of diamond pattern on the front above the knob inscribed with a human face projecting from the lower body, and a panel of chevron pattern below the chevron-painted strap handle on the opposite side, with zigzag pattern in broad and narrow lines on the interior of the waisted mouth
10¾in. (27.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

Two other vessels of this unusual form with the protruding human-head knob-like handle on the lower body are published: one illustrated in Neolithic Painted Pottery, Yang-shao Painted Pottery from Kansu Province, National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 1983 or 1984, pl. 32 and the other illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji; Gongyi meishu bian; Taoci (The Great Treasury of Chinese Fine Arts; Arts and Crafts; Ceramics), Shanghai, 1991, vol. 1, p. 11, no. 32.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C299f79 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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