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A NEOLITHIC RED POTTERY JAR
LONGSHAN CULTURE, EASTERN HENAN PROVINCE, CIRCA 2500-2000 B.C.
Thinly potted, the body divided by a median band below which the body slopes to the flat base and above which it tapers to a long cylindrical neck with flaring mouth rim (minor chips); together with a small Neolithic painted pottery jar, Yangshao Culture, Banshan Phase, 2nd half 3rd millenium B.C., the high shoulders painted with vertical plain and serrated lines, in purple and black, enclosing a fishnet pattern, the lug handles positioned just above a pair of tabs projecting from the neck below the lipped rim
7 7/8in. and 6¾in. (19.7cm. and 17.1cm.) high (2)
LONGSHAN CULTURE, EASTERN HENAN PROVINCE, CIRCA 2500-2000 B.C.
Thinly potted, the body divided by a median band below which the body slopes to the flat base and above which it tapers to a long cylindrical neck with flaring mouth rim (minor chips); together with a small Neolithic painted pottery jar, Yangshao Culture, Banshan Phase, 2nd half 3rd millenium B.C., the high shoulders painted with vertical plain and serrated lines, in purple and black, enclosing a fishnet pattern, the lug handles positioned just above a pair of tabs projecting from the neck below the lipped rim
7 7/8in. and 6¾in. (19.7cm. and 17.1cm.) high (2)
Exhibited
Red pottery jar: Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics From the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 4