A NEOLITHIC GRAY POTTERY TWO-HANDLED JAR

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A NEOLITHIC GRAY POTTERY TWO-HANDLED JAR
SIWA CULTURE, GANSU PROVINCE, CIRCA 1000 B.C.

The swelling upper body joined by a pair of strap handles to the flared rim of broad, scooped outline, the top of each handle forming a curved 'Y', the polished body showing knife-pared marks allover--5½in. (14cm.) high

展覽

Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 13

拍品專文

Jars of this type are illustrated by J.G. Andersson, "Researches into the Prehistory of the Chinese," B.M.F.E.A., No. 15, 1943, pls. 142 and 143; another was included in the exhibition, Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Neolithic period to the Western Han, Uragami Sokyu-Do Co., Tokyo, 1991, Catalogue, p. 28 (top); and one excavated in Pingliang county, Gansu province, now in the Gansu Provincial Museum, illustrated in Zhonguo Meishu Quanji, Gongyi Meishu, Taoci, vol. 1, Shanghai, 1991, no. 92, p. 71