FOUR NEOLITHIC POTTERY VESSELS

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FOUR NEOLITHIC POTTERY VESSELS
QIJIA AND OTHER CULTURES, CIRCA 2250-1900 B.C.

Three made of red pottery: one with a pair of broad strap handles with a single diamond cutout near the top which join the tall, flared neck to the cylindrical lower body, with burnished surface; another with strap handles joining the flared neck and the shoulder which flares to the median point of the body which then tapers to the flat foot, also with burnished surface; the third of larger size, the broad neck and high- shouldered body impressed with a wide band of impressed cord design which continues to the slightly countersunk base, with a pair of strap handles and a pinched pie-crust band applied at the rim of the wide mouth; the fourth vessel a gray pottery ewer, the tapering body impressed with cord design and the waisted neck carved with a plain band set between carved hatchured bands spanned by a pair of strap handles, with a short cylindrical spout rising on a diagonal from a canted mouth rim incised with narrow grooves
4½ to 6½in. (11.4 to 16.5cm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

Examples which relate to the two plain red pottery vessels with strap handles were included in the exhibition, Ancient Chinese Ceramics from The Neolithic Period to The Western Han, II, Uragami Sokyo-Do., Ltd., vol. II, Tokyo, 1994, Catalogue, p. 54, no. 81 and p. 55, no. 84. See also the jars of related form illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 37, nos. 41 and 42