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Rounded bowl

Rounded bowl

Chinese

Deep hemispherical bowl with lower portion tapering inward to a slightly flattened convex base; red earthenware lightly burnished and decorated on the exterior around the lip with a wide band painted in a light-colored slip before firing; whitish encrustations from burial. Early Yangshao culture, Banpo type. From the middle Yellow River valley region, Shaanxi province.

Earthenware with traces of slip-painted decoration

Neolithic period, Yangshao culture, c. 5000-3000 BCE

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