A RED POTTERY BOTTLE, the tapered ovoid body with two lug handles decorated with incised diagonal lines rising from below the mid-section to the cup-shaped mouth (small original chip to rim), Banpo Phase, Yangshao Culture, circa 4800-3600 B.C. | Christie's

Lot 91

A RED POTTERY BOTTLE, the tapered ovoid body with two lug handles decorated with incised diagonal lines rising from below the mid-section to the cup-shaped mouth (small original chip to rim), Banpo Phase, Yangshao Culture, circa 4800-3600 B.C.

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A RED POTTERY BOTTLE, the tapered ovoid body with two lug handles decorated with incised diagonal lines rising from below the mid-section to the cup-shaped mouth (small original chip to rim), Banpo Phase, Yangshao Culture, circa 4800-3600 B.C.
38.6cm. high

Lot Essay

A very similar 'cord-marked' bottle in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989, fig.2

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