Mallet shaped bottle
c. 4300-2600 BCE
Description
Small bottle with flared mouth, cylindrical neck, angled shoulders, cylindrical body, and flat base; buff earthenware with traces of decoration painted in red pigment. Dawenkou culture. From the middle and lower Yellow River valley regions; Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and eastern Henan provinces.
Dimensions
H. 15 x Diam. 7.1 cm (5 7/8 x 2 13/16 in.)
Provenance
[Nicholas Grindley, London, March 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
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