Ceramic: Vessel
Production date
2500 BC-2300 BC
Description
One unglazed brown earthenware vessel. Upper two thirds of vessel present loosely painted geometric patterns in dark brown pigment. Two small curved handles extend from lip to shoulder on opposing sides.
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Object Detail
Found by Alley at Sibatan, the site of the Shandan Bailie School farm, Gansu. Alley wrote in Yo Banfa (1952, p133): 'One spring Sunday, some years ago, as I walked over the steppe, my foot turned up bits of painted pottery, and later, when we excavated for irrigation purposes, we unearthed vast quantities more, relics of the neolithic potters whose bones we have found, together with their stone axes, ever since.' Carried to New Zealand in 1947 by A.E. Lorimer, of Christchurch, who worked in China with the Y.W.C.A.
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