The pottery jar of bulbous form with a rounded body and sloping shoulders, tapering towards the flat base. The short neck flaring outwards towards the everted rim, flanked by two handles applied to the shoulders of the vessel. The main body decorated with a frieze of diamonds, above the central section with a ‘leiwen’ or ‘thunder’ motif. The neck bears a decoration of vertical parallel lines on the outside, and finely drawn dots and wavy lines on the inside.
A painted pottery jar (Neolithic period, Majiayao culture, Machang type, late 3rd millennium BC )
Description
Dimensions: 16.5cm high
Provenance:
Gisèle Croës Oriental Art, Brussels, 6 February 1987 (invoice)
A private Belgian collection
The pottery jar of bulbous form with a rounded body and sloping shoulders, tapering towards the flat base. The short neck flaring outwards towards the everted rim, flanked by two handles applied to the shoulders of the vessel. The main body decorated with a frieze of diamonds, above the central section with a ‘leiwen’ or ‘thunder’ motif. The neck bears a decoration of vertical parallel lines on the outside, and finely drawn dots and wavy lines on the inside.
Compare a wide-necker jar with similar decoration in Palmgren, N. in ‘Kansu mortuary urns of the Pan Shan and Ma Chang groups’, pl. XXX, fig. 8 and pl. XLI, fig. 4.
