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A Chinese Neolithic painted pottery jar, Majiayao Culture,…
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Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
18-Nov-2012
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Description:
A Chinese Neolithic painted pottery jar, Majiayao Culture, Machang type, 3rd Millennium BC, of bulging hemispherical upper and conical lower half, short neck and flaring mouth rim, flanked by two loop handles, painted in dark pigment of two stick-like figures around the upper half of the body, the neck representing the shared head, the figures placed within separate roundels. 42 cm high. Provenance: Lot 0330, Sale 1629, Sotheby's arcadeAuction along the silk Road: Asian and Islamic, New York, 19 Sep 1998, 1998
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Unclassified