Three Painted Red Pottery Vessels

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, YANGSHAO CULTURE, BANSHAN TYPE (CA. 2500 BC)

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Three Painted Red Pottery Vessels
Neolithic period, Yangshao Culture, Banshan type (ca. 2500 BC)
One a red-striped jar with high-shouldered body tapering to a flat foot, with a broad strap handle and a series of narrow indentions at the base of the waisted neck; one a compressed bulbous jar painted with a wide band of checkerboard panels and pierced with three pairs of small holes just below the rim; the third a compressed globular jar with small strap handle, painted in black and dark red with a band of conjoined diamonds and in red on the neck with fishnet pattern
71/8, 4½ and 73/8in. (18, 11.5 and 18.7cm.) high (3)

Lot Essay

The red-striped jar with handle may be compared with a vessel illustrated by Zhang Pengchuan, Zhongguo caitao tupu (An Illustrated Catalogue of Ancient Chinese Painted Pottery), Wenwu Chubanshe, Beijing, 1990, no. 635. A similar compressed bulbous jar with checkerboard panels is illustrated in Neolithic Painted Pottery: Yang-Shao Painted Pottery from Kansu Province, National Palace Musuem, Taipei, 1983/4, p. 153, no. 107.

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