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Storage jar (kuan)

YANGSHAO CULTURE

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Date
Neolithic period, Banshan phase (3000–2500 BCE)
Medium
Swelling earthenware shape, narrowing to the base, with flared mouth and two lugs set vertically at the maximum diameter, painted with black and maroon pigments in a band of large diamond shaped motifs below a narrow band of wave crest pattern repeated on the neck and inside the mouth
Dimensions
41.3 x 40.6cm (diam.)
Credit
Gift of Wellington and Virginia Yee through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2004

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YANGSHAO CULTURE, Storage jar (kuan), Neolithic period, Banshan phase (3000–2500 BCE), Swelling earthenware shape, narrowing to the base, with flared mouth and two lugs set vertically at the maximum diameter, painted with black and maroon pigments in a band of large diamond shaped motifs below a narrow band of wave crest pattern repeated on the neck and inside the mouth, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.

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Gift of Wellington and Virginia Yee through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2004

Metadata sourced from Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art open data collection

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