Lot Essay
Compare a very similar jar from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, fig. 1
Details
A NEOLITHIC PAINTED POTTERY JAR
GANSU/YANGSHAO CULTURE, CIRCA 2500 B.C.
The high shoulders painted in black and dark red with plain and serrated sweeping lines, forming unpainted circles at intervals, the upper triangular sections filled with a mesh pattern, the slightly flared neck painted on the interior with swagged lines, the body applied with two loop handles
10½in. (26.7cm.) high
GANSU/YANGSHAO CULTURE, CIRCA 2500 B.C.
The high shoulders painted in black and dark red with plain and serrated sweeping lines, forming unpainted circles at intervals, the upper triangular sections filled with a mesh pattern, the slightly flared neck painted on the interior with swagged lines, the body applied with two loop handles
10½in. (26.7cm.) high
Exhibited
Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics From the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 7