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Cup with handle

Cup with handle

Chinese

Bowl-shaped cup with one strap handle attached from rim to midsection; coarse buff earthenware with geometric decoration painted in black slip. Xindian culture. From the upper Yellow River valley region; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Xindian culture, c. 1600-600 BCE

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