Jar
National Museum of Asian Art

Jar

2000 BCE

Earthenware with iron pigments
National Museum of Asian Art
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of Asian Art

Vase: wide bellied jar with short flaring lip. Two flat loop handles at widest part of body. Body: soft, fine-grained reddish buff clay. Potted thin. Decoration: upper part of body painted with vertical bands of black and reddish brown in symbolic patterns.

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