Majiayao cutlure, Banshan phase, 2650 BCE - 2350 BCE
H. 25 x Diam. 16.5 cm (9 13/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseBuff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips, the surface burnished before firing. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
3rd millennium BCEChineseBlack earthenware
5th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with impressed decoration
3rd millennium BCEChineseBuff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.
3rd millennium BCEChineseBlack earthenware
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 BCEChineseGray earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with slip-painted decoration
4th-3rd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChineseEarthenware
3rd-2nd millennium BCEChinese