A NEOLITHIC WHITE POTTERY STEM DISH, DOU

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A NEOLITHIC WHITE POTTERY STEM DISH, DOU
DAWENKOU CULTURE

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 surface of buff color under the earth encrustation--7 7/8 in. (20cm.) across

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