Banshan phase, c. 2650-2300 BCE
Small jar with short, tubular spout, rounded shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small, flat base, and with small strap handle; light gray earthenware with applique handle and applique and impressed decoration forming diagonal lines on the shoulders and horizontal lines on the lower body. Majiayao culture, Banshan type. From the upper Yellow River valley region; southern Ningxia province.
H. 11 x Diam. 12.5 cm (4 5/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, December 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1999-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
Black earthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBuff earthenware with decoration painted in dark brown slip, the surface burnished before firing. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province; probably Gansu province.
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseWhite earthenwareWhite earthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with cold painted pigmentEarthenware with cold painted pigment
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseGray earthenware
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChinese