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This ceramic pot has a tapered bottom and rounded shoulder leading to a flared opening on top. It is decorated with horizontal lines with bullseye designs on the shoulder and inner lip.

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Chinese

Small ovoid vessel with flared lip, sloping shoulders, and body tapering inward to a small flat base; buff earthenware lightly burnished and decorated with geometric designs painted in dark brown slip before firing; painted designs include a frieze around the shoulder of dotted roundels interspersed with diagonal lines and bordered at top and bottom by horizontal, parallel lines encircling the neck and lower body. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Neolithic period, Majiayao culture, c. 3300-2000 BCE

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