Vase
-3000–-2500
- Medium
- earthenware with slip coating and painted decoration
- Dimensions
- Diameter of mouth: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.); Overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramics
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
About
This Neolithic Chinese vessel has an ovoid body with two handles. Its neck is short and splays outward into a wide opening. It is decorated with a continuous lozenge motif. The material is a fine, reddish-buff clay slightly polished and then painted in black and red.