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Rounded Bowl

Rounded Bowl

Chinese

Deep bowl with straight sides and lower portion tapering inward to small flat base; buff earthenware with geometric decoration painted in black slip and white pigment. Majiayao culture, Majiayao type. 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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