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Storage jar (kuan) Neolithic period, Majiayao phase (3500-3000 BCE)

Accession No.
2004.022
Date Created
Neolithic period, Majiayao phase (3500-3000 BCE)
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Asian Art
Dimensions A
42.2 x 38cm (diam.)
Media Category
Ceramic
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
Place Created
Northwest China
Credit Line
Gift of Wellington and Virginia Yee through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2004

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