2nd millennium BCE
Red-slipped low bowl with a round base and loop like handle. Stripes of fine black lines intersect to form a basket-weaving pattern across base. Striped handle. Interior pitted and crusted with mineral deposits.
5.3 x 11.5 cm (2 1/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with carved vertical flutes under pale whitish gray glaze, the glaze over a coating of white slip applied to the full exterior and the upper portion of the interior. Probably made at the Cizhou kilns at Cixian, near Handan, Hebei province.
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