Banshan type jar
National Museum of Asian Art

Banshan type jar

5000-2000 BCE

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

Vase: wide-bellied with cylindrical neck and straight lip. Two flat vertical ears at lip and two flat loop handles at widest point of body. Body: soft fine-grained buff colored clay, potted thin. Decoration: neck and upper part of body painted with symbolic patterns in black and chocolate brown.

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