Unknown Artist
- Title
- Jar with painted decoration
- Place of origin
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China
- Cultural origin
- Qinghai province
- Period
- Late Neolithic period circa 5000-2100BCE → Neolithic period 10,000 - circa 2100 BCE → China
- Year
- circa 2300 BCE-2000 BCE
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware
- Dimensions
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37.7 x 37.0cm; 13.0 diameter of rim
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Elisabeth M. Smith 2002
- Accession number
- 294.2002
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
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.
- Bibliography (1)
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'Early Ceramics', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 101 (colour illus.).
