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Storage jar (kuan)

YANGSHAO CULTURE

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Date
Neolithic period, Majiayao phase (3500–3000 BCE)
Medium
Swelling earthenware shape, narrowing to the base, with narrow neck and two lugs set vertically at the maximum diameter, painted with black pigment in a band of large swirls below a band of circular panels enclosing a star motif reserved on a cross-hatched ground
Dimensions
42.2 x 38cm (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, Majiayao phase (3500–3000 BCE), Swelling earthenware shape, narrowing to the base, with narrow neck and two lugs set vertically at the maximum diameter, painted with black pigment in a band of large swirls below a band of circular panels enclosing a star motif reserved on a cross-hatched ground, 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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