Majiayao cutlure, Banshan phase, 2650 BCE - 2350 BCE
H. 15.9 x Diam. 20.4 cm (6 1/4 x 8 1/16 in.)
Harvard 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
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3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with traces of painted decor
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3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
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