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A Neolithic painted pottery jar of Banshan type
Gansu, 3rd Millenium BC, Yangshao culture

8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Neolithic painted pottery jar of Banshan type

Gansu, 3rd Millenium BC, Yangshao culture
The generously-rounded body tapering to a flat foot and flanked by two small loop handles, the upper section decorated with four roundels containing wave patterns reserved on a black ground within large scrolls of deep red, the high straight neck with simple black bands and the inner rim with a thin looping black line.
39.5cm (15½in) wide

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甘肅,公元前三千年,仰韶文化 半山類型彩陶罐

Compare a very similar jar but with a chequered pattern in the roundels in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated by B.Gyllensvärd, The World's Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, vol.8, Tokyo, 1982, pl.6. Another similar jar is illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, no.1.

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