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Details
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Cultural origin
- Qinghai province
- Period
- Late Neolithic period circa 5000-2100BCE → Neolithic period 10,000 - circa 2100 BCE → China
- Date
- circa 2300 BCE-2000 BCE
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware
- Dimensions
- 13.0 cm diam. of mouth; 37.7 x 37.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Elisabeth M. Smith 2002
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 294.2002
- Copyright
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About
The strongly potted Neolithic jar is large, thin-walled and ovoid in form. It is decorated in red pigment with geometric patterns on its upper portion. The design is characteristic of painted earthenwares of the Majiayao culture (c.3300-2000 BCE), belonging to the Mangchang phase (c.2300-2000 BCE), named for a site at Machangyuan in western Qinghai Province.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, 15 October 2002.
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Places
Where the work was made
China
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Conversations through the Asian collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Oct 2014–13 Mar 2016
The Way We Eat, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Apr 2021–13 Jun 2022
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Early Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 101 (colour illus.).
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