National Museum of Asian Art
Banshan type jar
5000-2000 BCE
Vase: spheroid shape with short neck and flaring lip. Two flat vertical ears at lip and two flat loop handles just below widest point of body. Body: soft, fine-grained, buff-colored clay. Potted thin. Decoration: neck, inside of lip and upper part of body painted with symbolic patterns in black and chocolate brown.
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