3rd millennium BCE
10.7 x 20.2 cm (4 3/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
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
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseHarvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseGray earthenware
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBlack earthenware with incised and openwork decoration, the surface burnished before firing. Middle and Lower Yellow River area; Shandong and Jiangsu provinces; possibly from Shandong province.
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBuff earthenware with decoration painted in burgundy and black slips. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu or Qinghai province.
3rd millennium BCEChinese