NEOLITHIC PERIOD, YANGSHAO CULTURE, BANPO TYPE, 5TH-4TH MILLENIUM BC

See a similar bowl also painted with a broad black band around the rim, excavated in Baoziping, Zhuanglang County, Gansu Province, and illustrated in Treasures from a Swallow Garden: Inaugural Exhibit of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing, 1992, pp. 70-1, no. 17.