A BLACK POTTERY STEM CUP

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A BLACK POTTERY STEM CUP
LONGSHAN CULTURE, 2500-2000 B.C.

Thinly potted, the bell-shaped cup with flared rim, supported on a tall, ovoid stem potted with horizontal ribs and pierced with a series of short slits above the pedestal foot, burial earth adhering allover, the interior of the stem with encrustation projecting from the slits, chips to footrim--9½in. (24.1cm.) high

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Compare with a very similar stem cup unearthed at Sanlihe, Jiao County, Shandong in 1975, illustrated in the Museum of Chinese History Catalogue, 1980, p.6. Compare, also, a lidded stem cup in the Linyi City Museum, illustrated by Liu Liangyu, Zhongguo Lidai Taoci Jianshang, p. 52