A Chinese Neolithic painted pottery jar
Majiayao Culture, Machang type, 3rd Millennium BC
Of bulging hemispherical upper and conical lower half, short neck and flaring mouth rim, flanked by two loop handles, painted in dark pigment of two stick-like figures around the upper half of the body, the neck representing the shared head, the figures placed within separate roundels.
42cm high
Of bulging hemispherical upper and conical lower half, short neck and flaring mouth rim, flanked by two loop handles, painted in dark pigment of two stick-like figures around the upper half of the body, the neck representing the shared head, the figures placed within separate roundels.
42cm high
Estimate:
AU$ 1,500 - 2,200
£970 - 1,400
US$ 1,500 - 2,200
£970 - 1,400
US$ 1,500 - 2,200
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Lot 0330, Sale 1629, Sotheby's Arcade Auction along the Silk Road: Asian and Islamic, New York, 19 Sep 1998
馬家窯文化 馬廠類型 彩繪陶壺
來源: 1998紐約蘇富比
Category: Asian Art
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