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NEOLITHIC/EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 3RD MILLENIUM BC-7TH CENTURY BC
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THREE EARLY POTTERY VESSELS
NEOLITHIC/EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 3RD MILLENIUM BC-7TH CENTURY BC
The earliest, Neolithic period, is a grey pottery tripod vessel, liding, that is raised on three mammiform supports and has scored decoration around the sides below a bow-string band. The next, late Shang/early Western Zhou dynasty, is also a grey pottery liding, with linear scored decoration on the tall legs, body and recessed neck below the everted rim. The surface has extensive red earth encrustation. The last is a dark grey dou and cover, Eastern Zhou dynasty, a tall stem foot supports the horizontally ribbed bowl which is decorated with bands of burnished dogtooth pattern repeated on the domed cover and on the finial that functions as a foot when the cover is inverted.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) across; 8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) across; 15¼ in. (38.8 cm.) high (3)
NEOLITHIC/EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 3RD MILLENIUM BC-7TH CENTURY BC
The earliest, Neolithic period, is a grey pottery tripod vessel, liding, that is raised on three mammiform supports and has scored decoration around the sides below a bow-string band. The next, late Shang/early Western Zhou dynasty, is also a grey pottery liding, with linear scored decoration on the tall legs, body and recessed neck below the everted rim. The surface has extensive red earth encrustation. The last is a dark grey dou and cover, Eastern Zhou dynasty, a tall stem foot supports the horizontally ribbed bowl which is decorated with bands of burnished dogtooth pattern repeated on the domed cover and on the finial that functions as a foot when the cover is inverted.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) across; 8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) across; 15¼ in. (38.8 cm.) high (3)
Provenance
Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954) Collection.
The Springfield Museums, Springfield, Massachusetts, accessioned in 1962.
The Springfield Museums, Springfield, Massachusetts, accessioned in 1962.
Literature
All: The Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Chinese Bronzes and Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1965, the two liding, pp. 14-5, the dou, pp. 26-27.
Exhibited
The late Shang/early Western Zhou dynasty liding; George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, Chinese Cloisonné from the Permanent Collection, 14 June - 31 December 2000.
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