Majiayao cutlure, Banshan phase, 2650 BCE - 2350 BCE
H. 15.9 x Diam. 20.4 cm (6 1/4 x 8 1/16 in.)
Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd-2nd 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 BCEChineseGray earthenware
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseEaHarvard 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 with applique and impressed decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseLightly burnished gray earthenware with modeled and appliqué decoration. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qing hai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseGrayish buff earthenware
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChinese